myfamily

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.

myfamily is an app we have produced in partnership with the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP) and Health and Human Services that has been available for iOS for the past six months and will now be exclusive to Samsung Android.

The target is the "Chief Health Officer" of a family, most often the Mom, who struggles to manage the health priorities of the family. On the app, the user adds in the age and gender of the family members and creates a list of health priorities for each family member. The app then helps the user pick a few to work on at a time, delivering patient health literacy to support understanding the priority. As the member "checks off" the completed priorities, if they have connected to their physician's EHR, their health record is also updated.

The Gear 2 experience puts the CHO (Chief Health Officer) plan at their fingertips at all times. For those priorities that are "scheduled" to be addressed, the Gear 2 experience shows the 3-5 priorities (out of about 30) that should be top of mind. The user also has access to the full list, as well as the patient literacy rationale for each priority.

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 myfamily app and instructions for account creation and initial patient profile development.