Windward Champion

Part of the Lyfechannel Integrated Health Series for Samsung: Better Connections for Better Outcomes

The Lyfechannel Integrated Health Series for Samsung brings together great patient programs, parallel support team experiences and care provider connectivity to help patients build basic habits in diet, physical activity and drug adherence.

Windward Champion is for people who are supporting someone using the Windward program -- for example, if your father has COPD, you would get him on the Windward program to begin a breathing journey and through the Windward Champion you could monitor his progress and send him direct support messages.

Windward is a program for patients new to COPD disease taking their first steps in a long lifetime of thriving through this health journey. Lifestyle change is difficult, and it is hard to tap into the daily motivation to make these changes. The combination of the Samsung Galaxy app paired with the Gear 2 experience makes this journey easier and puts triggers into place to encourage the development of new habits. For patients whose physician is on the largest EHR in the country, the Galaxy/Gear experience can be connected with their care provider to create a better “continuity of care”.

The Windward Champion app for the Samsung Galaxy provides a richer, more engaging experience, with greater adherence tools and controls for sharing experiences with supporters and care providers.

For Phase I of the Samsung Gear App Challenge we submitted an app to pair with the Gear 2 experience to simulate a “mid-program” data set. Health programs become more interesting as they progress. so for this initial evaluation of the Gear 2 experience the Samsung App will make the Gear 2 “act” like like it would after registration, initial data collection and other early experience requirements that would require more judge interactivity than we would most likely be allotted at this phase. This app will show you the data exchange with the Gear 2 and the Samsung Galaxy that would usually be “behind the scenes”. If we progress to the next round in the Challenge we will pair the Gear 2 experience with the full Windward Champion app and instructions for account creation and initial patient profile development.