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Hakarte is a treatment life support app for cancer patients supervised by a certified cancer treatment physician.
Do you have any of these concerns during your treatment life?
"I am unable to explain my physical condition and symptoms to my doctor during a consultation."
"I don't know how to deal with the side effects of anticancer drugs."
"There's a lot of information on the internet and I don't know which information is correct."
1. Easily “measure” with the app
It's okay even if you don't feel well.
With simple operations, you can measure and record your daily symptoms and physical condition, allowing you to understand your own condition.
You can easily record symptoms of side effects caused by anti-cancer drugs and daily medication status using the app.
There is also a function that allows you to record a life log such as body temperature, sleeping hours, and bowel movements, and to note down any concerns about your physical condition.
By placing your finger on your smartphone's camera, you can measure your autonomic nerve status (HRV) and objectively understand changes in your physical condition.
2. “Connect” to appropriate treatment
Based on your records, you can also receive advice on how to consult a medical professional and when to seek medical attention.
Facilitates smooth communication with medical professionals.
3. “Pushing back” to fight cancer
By supporting an independent treatment life
It helps cancer patients feel that their treatment is in their hands, increasing their sense of self-efficacy.
By recording changes in your physical condition during cancer treatment, you will be able to more easily communicate your condition to your healthcare provider and receive treatment and care independently.
Let's use HaCarte to lead an active treatment life, increase self-efficacy, and improve QOL during cancer treatment!
[Symptoms]
For each registered anticancer drug, an "!" mark will be displayed next to side effects that you should be especially careful about.
[Function to notify you of symptoms that may lead to serious side effects depending on the registered drug (anticancer drug, etc.)]
It was developed to help users manage their own physical condition and detect serious side effects early by informing them of symptoms that may lead to serious side effects.
It is designed to be personalized based on the drugs the user has registered (anti-cancer drugs, etc.), and when selecting symptoms, multiple doctors such as cancer drug therapy specialists and certified cancer treatment doctors, as well as pharmacists and nurses, are used to select the symptoms. Developed under the supervision of Mr.
[Medication (regular medicine/one-time medicine)]
The design makes it easy to record your daily medication intake.
Since you can record the type and time of the medication you took, it is useful for adjusting the timing of your next medication and explaining it to your healthcare provider at the time of your consultation.
[Autonomic nerve (HRV)]
Measuring autonomic nerves with a smartphone. You can get a rough idea of whether you are feeling stressed.
[Body temperature]
Depending on the type of anticancer drug you have registered, a message may be displayed warning you to be careful about fever.
[Blood pressure] [Weight] [Sleep] [Steps]
The recorded data can be viewed as a graph as a life log.
It makes it easy to understand trends in physical condition changes, so you can prepare for problems in advance.
Also, by checking this before your consultation, you will be able to remember to discuss the main points with your healthcare provider.
[defecation]
You can select the closest condition from the 7 levels of stool condition and record the number of times it has occurred in a day.
This allows you to understand in detail the conditions of diarrhea and constipation, which tend to occur as side effects, and makes it easier to report your bowel movements to your healthcare provider, leading to improvement in symptoms.
[Memo]
It is useful to record the details of your symptoms and the questions you would like to ask at your next consultation in a memo so that you can refer to them later. The notes you write can be categorized by content.
It is also recommended to use it like a diary to record during medical examinations and organize your feelings.
・Those undergoing cancer treatment (breast cancer, lung cancer, colon cancer, stomach cancer, ovarian cancer, uterine cancer, etc.)
・Those who have been diagnosed with cancer but are undergoing follow-up observation
Currently, in Japan, one in two people will get cancer in their lifetime, and the 4th Basic Plan for Promoting Cancer Control, which the government started last year, has one of the three pillars: ``Coexistence with cancer.'' ' is listed.
The plan clearly states that ``we aim to improve the quality of the recuperative lives of all cancer patients and their families,'' and there is an urgent need to address the problems faced by cancer patients who live in society while attending the hospital. Masu.
At our company, we came to develop Hakarute due to three reasons.
■Background of HAKARTE development 1: Changes in cancer treatment due to advances in medical care
In recent years, cancer treatment has become an outpatient treatment, with regular visits to the hospital (about once every few weeks for chemotherapy, often daily for radiation therapy) without requiring long-term hospitalization. It's common.
However, for patients who spend most of the treatment period living at home, there is also the anxiety of not being able to consult a medical professional immediately about changes in physical condition or side effects of treatment.
``Hakarte'' allows patients to record their daily physical condition and lifelog*1 on their smartphones, and check their physical condition records and notes before the consultation, making it easier to communicate changes in physical condition since the previous treatment and any questions you may have. , supports proactive treatment.
■Background of HACARTET development 2: Importance of maintaining and improving patient QOL in cancer treatment
It is known that many cancer patients feel a heavy burden both mentally and physically due to being diagnosed with cancer and the side effects of treatment, and their QOL is significantly reduced.
In addition, a decline in QOL often leads to discontinuation of treatment, and QOL management is important in order to complete treatment.
Overseas, there are reports*2 that treatment outcomes have improved by managing QOL.
Against this background, in recent years the importance of not only curing cancer but also alleviating cancer patients' anxiety and maintaining and improving their QOL has been emphasized.
However, given the limited time available for treatment, it is difficult for medical professionals to adequately consider patients' QOL, which is one of the challenges in cancer treatment.
"Hakarte" objectively evaluates the quality of life of cancer patients by visualizing their mental and physical conditions using symptoms and life log data, and supports smooth communication between medical professionals and patients even during short treatment times. I will.
■Background of HaCharte development 3: Importance of recording physical condition of cancer patients
Various studies have reported that physicians underestimate patient complaints.
This tendency is particularly strong when it comes to psychological and social aspects, and it is said that doctors underestimate patients' complaints about symptoms such as pain, numbness, malaise, and insomnia, or have difficulty understanding the actual situation.
*3 In order for patients to receive better treatment, it is important for them to show their doctor a record of their symptoms and their severity so that they can properly understand their mental and physical condition.
*1 Lifelog: A record of human activities (life), translated into Japanese as "living record". Life logs that can be recorded with Hakarte include heart rate fluctuation, number of steps, sleep, and mood.
*2 Basch E, Deal AM, Dueck AC, et al. Overall Survival Results of a Trial Assessing Patient-Reported Outcomes for Symptom Monitoring During Routine Cancer Treatment. JAMA. 2017; 318 (2): 197-198.
*3 Basch E. The missing voice of patients in drug-safety reporting. N Engl J Med. 2010 Mar 11;362(10):865-9.
With the mission of "designing sustainable performance," we provide service development and productivity improvement consulting for companies to solve problems using data analysis and technology.
In addition to the Hakarte business, we also offer a variety of other products, including stress measurement and self-conditioning apps such as ``Stress Scan'' and ``ANBAI,'' which have received over 3 million downloads in total, and ``Kaokara,'' an AI camera that assesses the risk of heat stroke jointly developed with Pola Chemical Industries. We are expanding our business.
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