App4Independence
A platform for supporting the schizophrenia
and psychosis recovery process
and psychosis recovery process
A4i is a digital health engagement platform to support people living with schizophrenia.
The landscape of mental health is in the middle of an awareness awakening. With a focus on inclusion, support and healing, A4i has tremendous possibilities to improve the lives of millions of people living with complex mental health challenges while reducing the burden on the healthcare system.
Our Mission is to extend care beyond the walls of the current mental health continuum, extend support, reduce isolation and provide insights on the risk of relapse. We help address key barriers to illness self-management and treatment engagement using an evidence-informed and empathy based adaptive digital intervention. This collaboration between MEMOTEXT Corp and CAMH helps patients, families, and providers as we improve outcomes and the bottom line.
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We harness user-generated objective and subjective markers surrounding sleep, physical activity, and app usage in order to better understand the health of individuals with schizophrenia and to share their progress with providers.
Peer-to-peer anonymized feedback is combined with evidence-based intervention content to support, inform and create a cohesive digital experience combined with features for care coordination and medication adherence.
Extensive experience in the power of machine intelligence allows us to learn, build the features and predictive models related to subjective and objective predictors in changes in health status and outcomes.
Evidence based strategies enhance wellness and coping through content personalization
Based on 4 identified domains; living with schizophrenia, social activation, stress and anxiety, motivation and cognition
Personalized tools include goal tracking, ambient noise detection and short patient diaries for clinician review
Using personalized prompts, lead-ins and scheduling of activities to increase socialization and community participation
Clinician tools for virtual care and home monitoring to facilitate higher levels of care coordination
Provides an anonymous peer-to-peer support platform and opportunity to safely connect with others
Ambient noise detection for assessing validity of auditory hallucinations
Effective care engagement is routinely challenged by brief, infrequent clinical contacts, heavy cognitive demands and system constraints.
A4i Addresses:
“Our limitations in better supporting people with illness self-management and challenged treatment engagement, with medications and otherwise, frequently lead to a rapid deterioration in mental health and major setbacks including hospitalizations. Our current efforts, from services to systems, are not enough.” – Dr. Sean Kidd, Associate Professor University of Toronto Department of Psychiatry, Clinical Associate Yale Department of Psychiatry. Chief Psychology Division, CAMH.
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A4i is a joint venture between CAMH Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Canada’s largest mental health teaching hospital and research centre and MEMOTEXT Corp, a leader in machine learning and evidence based development of precision digital patient engagement.
The App4Independence (A4i) digital/clinical team brings together an optimal skill set for developing and commercializing an industry leading behavioral health technology in the mental health space. Our team will leverage proven expertise in clinical and digital-health success and co-commercialize a digital health intervention to improve the lives of individuals with schizophrenia.
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Winner of Johnson & Johnson @JLABSToronto 2016 QuickFire Challenge
A4i named one of ten Start-ups Changing Healthcare by Scientific American
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