The document describes PainPal, a pain tracking mobile application. PainPal allows users to track their pain levels, physical activity, productivity, mood, and other factors. It provides visualizations of the historical data to encourage progress. Push notifications remind users to record information. The prototype provides a foundation, and the team aims to add features like linking activity trackers, intelligent notifications, separate pain profiles, and anonymous data export to inform research.

1. HealthHack 2015
Pain Impact Tracker.

2. The Problem: Pain
• Global public health problem
– At least 30% of the population affected
• Huge economic, social and personal impacts
• Burden of pain spans an
– Personal
– Mental
– Financial

3. Our Solution: PainPal
• Worked with experts in the pain
management field
• A pain tracking app
– Designed to empower patients
– inform healthcare providers
• There are other apps available
– Limited reporting options
– Don’t encourage patients to report
• PainPal Prototype
– Built in ionic
– Runs across ios / android / computers

4. PainPal Demo - Shelly
Visualize incremental improvements
• Shelly is a 18 year
old student
• Shelly suffers from
chronic pain
• Shelly has been
using the app for
10 weeks
Encourages Shelly based on
her progress
Encourages Shelly to
continue reporting

5. PainPal Demo – Everyday Reporting
Captures information
about Shelly’s
– Pain
– Physical
activity
– Productivity
– Mood
– Allows for
Shelly to
record notes

6. PainPal Demo – Informing Shelly’s Healthcare Providers
Reports on Shelly’s clinically
relevant measurements
Visualizes this data for her
health care providers

7. PainPal Demo
Connects Patient to information

8. PainPal Prototype provides an
excellent foundation
• In 2 days we’ve been able to bring a good idea into
the real world
• However, there is more we can do
• Facilitate research
– Merge data from thousands of individuals
– Provide researchers with de-individualized data
• Provide information to Shelly’s health care providers
–

9. Enabling Shelly to track what she cares about
How many meters did I walk each day? How many hours did I sleep last night?
• Pain is subjective – impacts each person
differently
• We want to be able to measure this:
– Time spent with kids
– Integration with HealthKit / FitBit

10. PainPal Team
• Dale Freya
• Jared Oats
• Sam Gillespie
• Grant Peters
• Glen Arrowsmith
• Thea Koutsoukis
• Kathleen Yin
• Alan Robertson
• Prashanth Rajan

12. Key features of PainPal
Very simple interface for logging your daily activity.
Contextual messaging to encourage the user and promote positive
thoughts.
Calendar and Charts to view historical information.
Push Notifications to remind you to check in.

13. Interface

14. Contextual Messaging

15. Historical Information
for Personal Insights

16. Historical Information
for Personal Insights

17. Push Notifications

18. What we would like to add
Activity Tracker: Let our users link their Health Kit / Fitbit profiles to overlay other
data with their pain measurements to give wider context to the impact of pain on
their other activities.

19. Contextual Push notifications: Intelligent notifications that are based on previous
entries. Eg: “Hey, hope you’re feeling better today!”. Additionally we could have
the user enter their medication details and message them when it’s time to take
it.
Extra pain profiles: The ability to track pain types separately per user for more
granular insight and feedback for doctors.
Anonymous data export: The ability to export data to an external source to help
inform studies on pain management and condition treatment.
What we would like to add

20. Thanks!