WISH

WISH is a tool designed to manage all personal healthcare data in one app.

It will be of particular value to people managing multiple chronic conditions, but also of interest to others wanting to track their health as well as their performance before, during and after activities involving some degree of physical exertion, especially sports.

• Avoid the need for two or more apps to record healthcare data.
• See a holistic view of their data: vital signs associated with multiple conditions (e.g. diabetes and hypertension) can be tracked on the same screen with associated prescribed drug adherence and (for example) alcohol intake. This is empowering: being able to see and track drug adherence and vital signs simultaneously on the same screen is qualitatively different from tracking one without the other; tracking these with (say) diet or alcohol intake will - for some - add valuable insight without being asked or judged by others, while preserving the option of sharing the data with their doctor should they wish to do so.
• Are in full control of their own data: they determine who can read the data . There is no Faustian pact obliging users to allow data harvesting in return for access to the application: they will never need to agree to permit WISH or unnamed third party partners access to their data.
• When sharing or backing up data it is always uniquely encrypted with the user's own public key or that of the person they share it with (e.g. their doctor).

• Have no need to develop entire apps: the UI is already built; so too are the backend services, including storage, security and data transfer utilities: with less development, time to market is shortened.
• Acquire a shared neutral space where collaboration is built-in and entirely natural rather than exceptional.
• Functionality is better targeted: with no need to write an entire app for capturing and displaying data to the patient, there is no need to compete (often unsuccessfully) with every other healthcare app that a patient might use, and moreover a significant portion of development costs are eliminated. The patient also gets a better deal: a holistic view that allows other data to be displayed in parallel.

• Enable patients to share their data with a doctor in advance of (or during) a consultation: this data, captured by patients themselves, will often be of a quality comparable to or better than that collected in a hospital: highly structured and detailed with date and timestamps.
• Build closer links with patients: the notion of extending API functionality to support communication with healthcare providers for (for example) the transmission of booking information and test results is a real possibility.
• Help manage home care: for patients with disabilities that handicap their capacity to record vital signs and drug adherence themselves, recording this information can be done by visiting carers on the patient's own tablet / phone etc.

WISH is in development: work is in progress on the first fully functional version of the platform.

More information will be posted here in due course. Contact details can be found here.