INSIGHTS – KORE Digital Health Therapeutics https://koredigitalhealth.com Thu, 21 May 2020 17:30:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.1.5 https://koredigitalhealth.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/cropped-KORE-Icon-32x32.png INSIGHTS – KORE Digital Health Therapeutics https://koredigitalhealth.com 32 32 KORE Digital Health Therapeutics integrates MyHealthyGut app to build robust enterprise solution for digestive health https://koredigitalhealth.com/build-robust-enterprise-platform/ Tue, 01 May 2018 02:48:24 +0000 http://koredigitalhealth.com/?p=2428 When MyHealthyGut launched in 2016, it was the first-of-its kind app designed to help those dealing with digestive issues, starting with celiac disease and gluten intolerance. This innovative tool came out of the gate swinging, winning accolades from Healthline as one of the top gut health apps of 2017. It was also downloaded by thousands of people looking for solutions to their gut health challenges.

KORE Digital Health Therapeutics (formerly WholeLife HealthTech) was selected as one of the top 50 innovative health startups by Interface Health Challenge for its approach to health and enterprise vision. As KORE Digital Health Therapeutics launches its enterprise solution, with MyHealthy Gut as an integrated tool to allow users to track and tackle their gut health issues, these award-winning technologies come together.

The MyHealthyGut app was the result of a year of development time and a synergistic collaborative effort between University of Calgary researcher Justine Dowd, Registered Dietitian Desiree Nielsen and KORE Digital Health Therapeutics CEO and Founder, Darlene Higbee Clarkin. These three women set a goal to develop an evidence-based app for celiac disease that did more than just point people to gluten-free foods or gluten-free options for dining out – they wanted a solution that would lead people to manage their own digestive health, as well as provide users with data and advice to help them find solutions and treatment for their digestive issues.

The resulting app delivered just that.

The information within the app was vetted by a team of healthcare practitioners and researchers committed to an excellent standard of care, and the MyHealthyGut team conducted in-depth focus groups and a clinical research study with more than 100 adults who suffer from celiac disease. This user feedback was applied to ongoing research and product enhancements.

The app was set up to act like a “dietitian in your pocket”, giving users access to meal preparation tools, advice on dietary supplements, and science-based information to research and understand their condition. The app features a list of the top 25 foods that best support digestive health, and the top 50 safe foods for celiac and gluten intolerance, and contains a searchable database of over 1000 foods flagged from “safe”, to “potentially unsafe/contaminated”, to “foods to avoid”.

It also contains:

  • Recommendations for dietary supplements to help alleviate symptoms.
  • Shareable grocery lists organized by grocery aisle for easy shopping
  • Recipe and meal planning tools, with recipes designed by celebrity chefs.
  • An interactive journaling tool that helps users identify symptom triggers. The journaling tool is particularly innovative, as it allows data to be compiled and emailed directly to a dietitian or healthcare provider to assist in treatment and prevention.  

Dietitian and app collaborator Desiree Nielsen had this to say, “Healthy eating is difficult for anyone, but to totally transform your diet takes support. For the cost of a fancy coffee, this app provides more information than a dietitian could ever provide in a one-hour session.”

The success, positive outcomes and feedback garnered by the MyHealthyGut app and the integration into KORE Digital Health Therapeutics platform (a robust enterprise solution that gives organizations the ability to implement proven digestive health therapeutic programs across their user groups) offers access to easy-to-use education, health and lifestyle tools to empower people with knowledge about their gut health and nutrition. It is the ideal solution for people to effectively monitor and manage symptoms, and provides a huge benefit for organizations wanting to reduce health care costs, reduce sick days and increase productivity.

The future of KORE is exciting, with additional digital digestive health programs on the horizon for integration, as well as new features and tools planned to give additional support to those dealing with a wide range of digestive health issues. KORE Digital Health Therapeutics future plans also include expanding to provide condition-specific advice for people living with IBS, Crohn’s and Colitis, colon cancer and more.

Media Coverage from 2016 MyHealthyGut Launch

Global Television, Calgary, February 2017. Click to view. 

CityTV Breakfast Television, Calgary, February 2017. Click to view.

UToday, University of Calgary, August 2017. Read more.

 

]]> Health tech innovator launches new enterprise solution to address digestive health issues https://koredigitalhealth.com/original-story/ Fri, 01 Sep 2017 23:40:34 +0000 http://koredigitalhealth.com/?p=2407 Darlene Higbee-Clarkin is a long-time tech innovator who discovered the world of holistic nutrition when her father got sick — and ultimately lost his life — after being diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes.

Watching her father decline from the effects of the disease (including having his leg amputated and suffering a series of strokes) made Darlene acutely aware of her own health, and compelled her to find out how she could empower herself to take control of her well-being. Although her father took his medication, and heeded the advice of his care team, he never changed his diet or investigated other ways to help his condition. Darlene instinctively knew that changes in the way he lived, beyond what he was already doing, could have changed the situation for her dad. With this instinct as her guide, she embarked on her journey to becoming a Registered Holistic Nutritionist (RHN).

As she was immersed in her studies, Darlene’s tech brain was still going full tilt. The track in her head just kept saying “everyone needs to know about this stuff!” This is where her technical expertise, and her newly discovered love and knowledge of nutrition intersected.

“I saw that, with my background, I could build something extremely different and unique. I could get nutritional information to the masses pretty easily, and make it affordable for all,” she says.

She enlisted the help of her teacher, Orsha Magyar, an RHN with a background in biopsychology and neuroscience, and established her first tech nutrition venture, WholeLife Holistic Nutrition. The company embarked on a mission to bridge the gap between Western medicine and holistic nutrition, integrating tech into the mix, building a website and a series of smartphone apps to give people access to nutrition advice at their fingertips.

WholeLife Holistic Nutrition brought together top quality health food products, supplements, authors, practitioners, health services, and research. They developed a web application (mywholelife.ca “Free Personal Health Assessment”) and produced three mobile consumer apps:

  • Quick Tips: a database of over 500 nutrition and lifestyle quick tips on preventative health, health conditions, popular diets and more.
  • Blood Sugar: the latest scientific research on diet, supplements and lifestyle to help achieve optimum blood sugar balance.
  • Weight Management: a tool to help users achieve optimal body weight using holistic nutrition.

KORE Digital Health Therapeutics
KORE Digital Health Therapeutics (formerly WholeLife HealthTech) employs a similar platform and similar technologies as WholeLife Holistic Nutrition, but is a unique new brand that represents a new direction for Darlene and her team.

KORE is on mission to help organizations empower their people to take control of their gut health, addressing the fact that health costs related to digestive diseases have grown exponentially in North America year after year. The rebrand and refocus was the result of recognizing a need for this technology to address gut health issues, as well as the team’s personal passions around digestive health conditions and disease.

KORE Digital Health Technologies brings together science-based advice (validated by dietitians, medical researchers and health organizations) and self-management tools to offer mobile access to evidence-based therapy for enterprise users.

This comprehensive solution will help organizations keep their employees and members healthy, reduce sick days, and save money on health care costs over the long-term. The KORE platform offers users access to their award-winning MyHealthyGut app, which includes:

  • A wealth of general information about the digestive system.
  • Access to a therapeutic program for individuals with Celiac Disease.
  • Access to education and lifestyle recommendations for Gluten-Free living.

The future of KORE is exciting, with steps being made towards supporting increased  scalability, performance, agility, efficiency and reusability for organizations and enterprise users.

What’s coming?

  • Additional therapeutic programs addressing Crohn’s & Colitis (IBD), Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), Digestive Health, Colon Cancer, Gut + Brain Connection and Skin Disorders.
  • A new interface design and user experience journey.
  • A Health Coach bot.
  • Customized push notifications and messaging including daily motivational tips, news & alerts, exclusive blogs, news, research, & offers.
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