Digital Health – 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 Digital Health – KORE Digital Health Therapeutics https://koredigitalhealth.com 32 32 Forbes features KORE as one of three female-led tech companies changing the face of healthcare https://koredigitalhealth.com/forbes-features-kore-as-one-of-three-female-led-tech-companies-changing-the-face-of-healthcare/ Sun, 12 Aug 2018 00:47:48 +0000 http://koredigitalhealth.com/?p=2730 Forbes gave a huge shout out this week to KORE Digital Health Therapeutics — and our founder and CEO, Darlene Higbee-Clarkin — for tech leadership, innovation and for offering a unique approach to health through technology. KORE was featured alongside two other female-run health-tech companies poised to redefine the healthcare space, which has historically been led by men.  

Digital health therapeutics is an emerging sector of the health-tech industry that offers patients health information remotely, in real-time, and empowers people to take control of their health. KORE is at the forefront of this emerging trend. With our therapeutic focus on digestive health, patients with gut-health challenges can easily access useable, science based information to control and monitor their symptoms.

Forbes highlighted Higbee Clarkin, and the two other women tech leaders, for using technology to provide solution-oriented, effective tools to address healthcare issues. For more, read the full article at forbes.com

]]> KORE Digital Health Therapeutics Recognized as an Emerging Rocket https://koredigitalhealth.com/ready-to-rocket/ Thu, 15 Mar 2018 02:47:19 +0000 http://koredigitalhealth.com/?p=2422 In 2018, KORE Digital Health Therapeutics was recognized on the Rocket Builders 16th annual Ready to Rocket lists as an Emerging Rocket in the Digital Health category.

Rocket Builders is a management consulting firm focused on helping technology companies grow through market research, market planning, strategic selling, business development and product launches; and their annual Ready to Rocket lists highlight technology companies in BC that demonstrate high growth potential within their sectors. Historically, these lists have accurately predicted private company growth, venture capital investment and acquisitions by major players.

This year, over 450 companies were reviewed for the selection of 180 winners in four categories:

  • Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
  • Cleantech (CT)
  • Life Science (LS)
  • Digital Health (DH)

The Digital Health sector list debuted in 2017, and in 2018, 38 companies were showcased, including KORE. As an Emerging Rocket honouree, KORE Digital Health Therapeutics is highlighted as an early-stage tech company well positioned for investment and market breakthroughs, and firmly on the leading edge of the province’s burgeoning tech start-up economy.

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]]> MyHealthyGut Named by Healthline as Top Gut Health App https://koredigitalhealth.com/healthline-top-gut-health-app/ Wed, 01 Nov 2017 02:46:40 +0000 http://koredigitalhealth.com/?p=2418 Healthline named MyHealthyGut as one of their top five gut health apps of 2017, a formidable achievement in the competitive world of health tech. Healthline is a well-recognized health information site, providing expert advice to guide consumers through health and wellness decisions. They are the fastest growing health information portal, with over 85 million users a month.

Top apps in the gut health category were selected based on their overall quality, user reviews, and reliability as a source of support for those wanting to improve their digestive health. MyHealthyGut was rated five stars (out of five) and highlighted for its evidence-based insights and science-backed approach. It was unique among the winners, being the only app in this category developed by a team of health professionals, including a dietician, health psychology researcher and health tech entrepreneur.

The Healthline reviewers were also impressed by MyHealthyGut’s ability to allow users to track meals and symptoms, explore digestive-friendly foods and supplements, and plan meals with the in-app recipes.

KORE Digital Health Therapeutics is integrating MyHealthyGut into our new digestive health platform to offer an app-based enterprise solution, bringing even more powerful features to organizations and their users. Users will now have even more control over the management of their gut health.

For more on our Healthline recognition, click here.

 

]]> 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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