About our project
RE-LAUNCH!!!
A new lower overall price and new rewards! Thanks to genomera.com, we can now conduct a clinical trial without having to hire staff for participant recruiting and can now use the crowd instead. This means that the price can drop from $25,000 to now $5,000!
With your $50 contributions, you can now try out an Agamatrix glucometer.
With your $100 contributions, you can be one of the FIRST to try out the Agamatrix iPhone connection cord and app with an Agamatrix glucometer to manage your data…the beginnings of the diabetes data connectivity movement. The connection cord is already FDA-approved and will be available in Fall 2012 so you will get a voucher to be one of the FIRST to use it.
WHAT IS THE ENDOGODDESS APP?
The EndoGoddess App is an mHealth solution designed to promote sustainable behavior change by influencing patients’ decision making processes using a rewards system. The app works as an electronic self-entry glucose journal (with corresponding carb intake and insulin dosing) which can be reviewed by the patient’s clinician.
Our app enhances communication between patients and doctors and also minimizes the health risks posed by diabetes to patients by lowering the chance of potential ER visits or hospitalizations related to decreased diabetes care engagement.
How the App Works
- Patient records their glucose measurements four times a day
- In return, the patient earns rewards
- The patient’s physician / care team can review, record, and adjust their care plan as needed (optional)
- Patient Goes to iTunes and downloads rewards ranging from songs to glucose strips and gym memberships and more (Version 2, EndoGoal)!
This results in better health, better care, & an awesome iTunes library.
ABOUT DIABETES
Diabetes is a unique chronic disease in which the decisions that affect patients’ health and well-being the most are made by patients themselves.
This is why the EndoGoddess App targets patient/consumer empowerment rather than the physician — in order to make the largest impact on diabetes-related health outcomes, quality, and costs. We drive Patient Engagement with their Health and their Doctor.
Who Pays for the iTunes Downloads?
The app’s rewards system is based on points which can then be used for iTunes downloads.
We utilize a unique social business model for iTunes downloads. The revenue for the iTunes downloads comes from the patient’s family and friends who sponsor the user for the improvement of their health. This activates the patient’s loved ones to get involved in a positive way.
Adding credits is easy: the sponsor enters their loved one’s email address and the credits appear as “potential points” that the patient will earn if they journal their glucose levels according to schedule.
*This feature is not yet built. The clinical trial results will help lead to additional funding and more business relationships so rewards can go beyond music to include sporting or fitness equipment, activities, gym memberships, and other beneficial rewards that are fun in Version 2.0, EndoGoal.
WHAT MAKES THE ENDOGODDESS APP SPECIAL?
We think the EndoGoddess App is special because it gets our patients’ loved ones involved in their health. Now, instead of worrying and nagging our loved ones, we can encourage them to take better care of themselves and show that we care in positive ways.
Unique personal, social media, & patient community features:
- Within the app, users can submit daily diabetes-specific motivational quotes to be featured on the home page of the app.
- Information about how to get involved in the diabetes online community (moderated twitter chats, blogs, diabetes camp links, charity links) is also provided in addition to educational, multimedia diabetes content.
- The EndoGoddess App also allows users to customize glucose-check reminder alarms so that adherence triggers are personalized.
- And sharing glucose results with doctors and family is easy with our share button. Sharing Data is Caring!
WHO SHOULD USE THE ENDOGODDESS APP?
Anyone with diabetes who is instructed by their doctor to check their blood sugars 4x a day can use the EndoGoddess App. Those patients who check their blood sugars 4 times a day are typically those with insulin-dependent type 1 or type 2 diabetes. Mothers who are pregnant and checking their blood sugars frequently due to gestational diabetes are also common users of the EndoGoddess App.
WHERE CAN YOU GET THE ENDOGODDESS APP?
The app is available for free download in the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. All updates of the app will be available as they roll out through each app store.
THE CLINICAL TRIAL
Part of your money will fund our trial, but WHY DO WE NEED A CLINICAL TRIAL?
Apps are very new to the medical field, so evidence in the form of a larger clinical trial is needed to show that mHealth apps are more than just hype. In order for doctors to prescribe the EndoGoddess App and for health insurance companies to consider paying diabetics to use the app, our clinical trial must prove that our app make people with diabetes healthier.
I have already shown evidence that mobile phones make life with diabetes healthier in a smaller sized pilot study amongst my teenage patients (2009). Improvements were made to our app after this study. Our trial will formally study the results of these changes in a group of patients larger than our initial pilot study.
Why a Medstartr fundraiser for a clinical trial?
Traditional funding for clinical trials typically comes from federal sources such as the NIH which requires that researchers be either part of a university or a non-profit organization. Most traditional funding mechanisms for clinical trials exclude small businesses like startups. Medstartr allows the public to be involved in funding projects that they think are important and in new technology that they would like to see in the healthcare arena.
Where will the clinical trial be done?
The clinical trial will be conducted on http://genomera.com/, which is a platform that provides access to a large group of available study participants across the United States. In other words, it brings the crowd to the research.
Approximately 250-300 genomera.com users with insulin-dependent diabetes will be given the chance to participate in monitoring their diabetes health measures over a 3 month period using the EndoGoddess app. The results, self-reported data, will be collected by survey at the start of the study and at the conclusion of the study. Each participant will be given $10 iTunes gift certificate upon completion of the conclusion survey.
When will the clinical trial be complete?
The trial should take about 2 months to plan and 6 months to complete. It will take an additional 3 months to analyze the data, and then create a report of the results to (most likely) present at the American Diabetes Association Meeting in June of 2013.
HOW WILL YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS BE SPENT?
The money will be spent as follows:
IRB submission for proper review of the clinical study ($2000)
Payment ($10 iTunes gift certificate) for completion of the survey after 3 months of using the EndoGoddess App to each of the 300 participants with insulin dependent diabetes ($3000)
Thank you for your support for our project! If you have questions please tweet to me at @EndoGoddess or feel free to send me an email.
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Have a question?
If the info above does not help, you can ask the project creator directly.
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