AC Health Participates in Open IDEO “Healthy Bones Healthy Aging” Challenge

Dec 16, 2019

AC Health was one of 5 companies selected to attend the Open IDEO Healthy Bones Healthy Aging challenge

December 16, 2019 / / —

AC Health was one of 5 companies traveling to Philadelphia, PA, to participate in the Open IDEO Healthy Bones Healthy Aging challenge. The challenge asked the vital question: How might we reimagine older adults’ care experience after breaking a bone due to osteoporosis to ensure their first fracture is their last?

AC Health increases patient engagement through its intuitive mobile interface. Their technology supports patients’ recovery by making it easy for them to comply with their medical instructions. This is particularly pertinent for patients who may struggle with understanding or remembering the instructions given by their doctors. The company serves the entire healthcare community, including those with osteoporosis and other similar conditions.

Susannah Bailin, Founder and CEO of AC Health contributed her idea, The Morning Click, to the event. The idea centres around the fact that 90% of recovery and prevention occurs when the patient is alone at home and unconnected to the care team. Though patients are often discharged with multiple sources of information, these leaflets are easily lost. This means that while patients may be motivated to care for themselves properly, they may not have the means available to support them.

To solve this problem, Susannah suggests a simple solution: a daily click into the AC Health app to access a Care Hub. An app is already available for download and shows great promise. But the key positive is that the app integrates information across diseases so, if a patient has other conditions they need to manage as well as osteoporosis, they can do it all with a single click.

Joining the Open IDEO Healthy Bones Healthy Aging challenge has been really eye-opening for AC Health and it was great for the company to network with others who are passionate about making health simple. The event showed that there are still significant challenges to helping people recover and manage their health at home but there are ways forward.

Being a part of the solution is really important to the team at AC Health who work tirelessly to solve problems in health with affordable, innovative technology that anyone can use effectively. It was an honor to be invited to contribute to the Open IDEO Healthy Bones Healthy Aging challenge.

For more information about AC Health, please contact Susannah Bailin by email to [email protected]. and check out their website https://ac-health.com/ for any further information.

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Name: Susannah Bailin
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Organization: AC Health
Website: https://ac-health.com/

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