RA Partner: Daily Resource for Condition Partners

About our project

RA Partner: Putting people and connections at the center of tech and health. An RSS reader and Rosetta Stone for the best RA resources.

We want to put the person living with RA at the center of a rich experience with their condition partners.

About RA

RA is a condition that medical knowledge has only scratched the surface of. If you spent twenty minutes with three people living with RA you would most likely learn more about the TRUTH of life with RA then if you spent hours with a medical “professional”.

The good news is that the internet is full of magnificent resources dedicated to sharing personal experiences and advancing the collective understanding of life with RA. The hard part is keeping up with it. The great list of resources present two problems — keeping up with the volume of content that comes sometimes infrequently and sometimes like a firehouse, and then accessing those resources when you have a specific challenge you are interested in or a topic you are researching. It’s hard enough to live with RA, it shouldn’t be so hard to navigate its best resources.

Our Solution: RA Partner

Our RA Partner mobile platform hopes to do three things:

RA Partner Homescreen

1. Our RA Partner homescreen keeps you up to date on the latest RA content from the best resources: we will act like a central library for current RA web content (for you techies, we’ll be like an RA-specific RSS reader) and we’ll highlight the best of the content we find.

RAPartner Quick Hits

2. Unlock the Research Potential of Dozens of RA Websites: we’ll build the Rosetta Stone across these sites and establish a “cross-index” that we will use to organize the content. Do you have a question about certain diet choices? We’ll show you all the related posts across all of our sites. Looking for information about alternative methods do address hand pain? We’ll share the collective insight.

RAPartner Resource Center

RAPartner Resource Details

3. Engage your support team: do you have a handful of close support team members that you would like to better include in your RA journey? We’ll deliver to them a steady stream of content to help them understand RA, better understand you, and help them be better support team members.

We will deliver the experience through a mobile phone so you can engage any time and anywhere you want, and it’s also easier to build an experience that relies on swipes and touches, not typing (if you’re living with RA, you know why this is important).

Our Partners

We’ve already got 23 RA sites signed on as pilot partners (your votes can add more) including 16 of the top 22 RA Blogs as recently named by Healthline [dot] com. We’ve started to work with them on the first two levels of categorization of the content.

We’re not trying to take any traffic away from our great partners — all of the content will link through to their site. We hope to become their #1 source of new members and repeat visitors.

How We Will Use Your Contributions

The funds will go towards three things — 1) the build and maintenance of the mobile experience, 2) we’re going to license some professional content to supplement the user content, and 3) some of our partners need a little help preparing their site for participation, so we’re funding a little tech work.

Thank You — The RA Partner Team

About Us

The RA Partner Team is part of LyfeChannel.com. We build mobile health immersion programs centered around wellness behaviors, support team engagement and adherence. We’re experts in privacy, security and creating great looking experiences. We hate the word “patient” and love the phrase “condition partners”. We’re excited to try this new type of project and put some great information into the hands of people living with RA. Shoot us a note at info@lyfechannel.com if you want to see some of our programs.

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