illuminate.health

Isolated patients with underlying conditions in undeserved areas need clinical grade guidance on staying on track with medications, other health-related activities on a daily basis while staying connected to their care team and family caregivers. illuminate.health's platform provides suggested times for when and how to take medications, perform other holistic activities like yoga, meditations for mental health and obtain educational and community-based resources.  The care team portal enables community workers and clinicians remotely monitor and deliver care virtually.

Only 12% of the US population is health literate which makes majority not known to medical jargon or know how to obtain information on managing their health.  This contributes to the $528B challenge of non-optimized medication therapies.  Folks struggling with Substance Use Disorder have more challenges given how the opiate takes over one’s cognitive abilities.  A toolbox approach is needed which combines best of breed practices like 12-step, mindfulness and more.  Close to 50% of SUD patients take medications for a chronic condition and majority have a history of mental illness. Illuminate understood the need for a virtual care management tool to address all aspects.

 Illuminate Health  provides the below Digital Health assistant skills via a consumer app, and a care team web portal with a toolbox approach of 12-step and mindfulness capabilities which is embedded with clinical intelligence to provide patients and care givers the required to resources to manage care 

Health Status:
Solution - Monitoring side effects, moods, symptoms; Trusted industry database and health journals

Wellness Activities:
Challenge - Chronic illness patients and SUD moving to unhealthy lifestyles
Solution - Supplementary therapy to improve well being (Exercises, meditation, Readings)

Community resources:
Challenge - Isolation causing triggers or relapse in substance abuse patients
Solution - Remote engagement during isolation; Connect social with online group of SUD

Medication Guide
Challenge - Non-Compliance to ongoing therapy
Solution - Therapy education Intelligent scheduling; Safety checks

Support Network
Challenge - Long Wait at ER or doctor’s office healthcare workers facing burnout
Solution - Multi-level access provider, family, friend, peer ; Improves ER, doctor office utilization

Solution has a wide range of used cases with adults / young adults undergoing  treatment with co-occuring mental and substance use disorder, patients with chronic condition looking for medication management and self-care.  The goal is to improve access to care for underserved populations wherein we are speaking with Medicaid organizations and social service organizations to understand needs and how best to collaborate in getting the solution in the hands of people that need it.

The illuminate platform is broad given it can help with any FDA approved medication whether prescription or over the counter.  With the support for chronic conditions, mental health and of course symptom capture for an ongoing pandemic the use case can start with just that and expand, to truly provide long term value

Illuminate Health product spans multiple traditional digital health categories of point solutions from medication reminders, care coordination, communication tools to now the emerging virtual care space. Given health literacy levels in the country, aging and chronic condition population, we have honed in on truly simplifying, automating and being a digital pharmacist to enable better efficacy and wellness. Our offering makes patient feels comfortable in taking their meds because of the safety checks and schedule medication we conduct, improves patient compliance and support care team provide that needed support network during the current pandemic remotely.

AI-based medication timing suggestion is a key technology for us, along with AI-based suggestions on what to do next based on reported symptom in terms of mental health.  The clinical intelligence and guided approach to enable self-care at home, the comprehensive and holistic nature of the app where it offers a meditation session if someone reports high anxiety levels and the closed loop via a Clinician portal for communication to take place.  Educational materials and other updates can be pushed out to patients, along with symptom monitoring.  Our approach is to empower patients with self-care tools to know when to do something, what to do and how.

Here is a link to results of a pilot with IU Health

https://illuminate.health/white-paper/

Our hypothesis is that if we provide a digital tool to consumers which adds tangible value in terms of doing the hard and confusing work of organizing their medications and informing them on when and how to take them, while ensuring medication safety to instill trust, and connecting them to loved ones and trusted clinicians, consumers will utilize the product and hence have better outcomes

over 1000 downloads so far with just under 100 active users.  With current pipeline plan to get to 10,000 users by end of year

Scale up sales and marketing, build on AI capabilities, add service model via pharmacists and mental health workers

EOY 2020: Build a data science and M/L team and additional analytics with physician/ caregiver portal
EOY 2021: Expand offering to other countries via partners
EOY 2022: Launch precision medicine offering to truly help people optimize therapies and live healthier lives

Healthcare has been a laggard in terms of technology adoption given misaigned incentives, regulatory and legal challenges.  Also, people do not like to take medications.

Promoting our value proposition which is medication safety, easier health management to save costs and get better outcomes

Solution Team
Technical Lead - Full-Time Staff - 1 
Developers - Full-Time Contractors - 3
UX/ UI / DataScience Part-Time - 3