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Archimedes, Inc.'s IndiGO Tool Serves as Risk Engine for New Mobile App to Help Consumers Improve Heart Health
SAN FRANCISCO --(Business Wire)--
The Million Hearts™ initiative, a national public-private
collaboration of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, today
announced the winner of its Risk
Check Challenge to create a mobile app powered by Archimedes
Inc.'s clinical-decision support tool, IndiGO.
The winning mobile app, developed by Wisconsin's Marshfield Clinic
Research Foundation, will help consumers assess their risk of heart
attack or stroke and direct them to participating health screening
locations in their community. The Million Hearts initiative is designed
to leverage clinical and community prevention strategies to prevent 1
million heart attacks and strokes by 2017.
"The announcement of Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation's Heart
Health Mobile app represents a new era of consumer information and
access to powerful healthcare data," said David Eddy, M.D., Ph.D.
founder of Archimedes and pioneer in the area of evidenced-based
medicine. "For years Archimedes has been developing quantitative methods
for analyzing healthcare decisions at the individua and population
levels. The launch of this new app will provide consumers with
convenient access to our IndiGO solution in a format that is easy to use
and understand. We are confident this app will help empower individuals
to be more engaged in the heart - and overall - health care."
IndiGO is derived from the Archimedes Model, which is a large-scale,
clinically realistic, trial-validated, mathematical model of diseases,
individuals, populations, and healthcare systems. In the Heart Health
Mobile app, IndiGO is used to analyze person-specific information
entered by the individual and then calculate their risks of heart attack
or stroke. While this is the first time that IndiGO has been adapted to
an Application Programming Interface (API) format for use by consumers,
IndiGO has been deployed in communities across the country for use by
physicians at the point-of-care.
The Heart Health iPhone (News - Alert) app is available to download from the Apple
iTunes store. A web-based (HTML5) responsive design version that
works on other devices is expected to be released in March 2013, and the
app will soon be available in other languages.
About Archimedes, Inc.'s IndiGO
IndiGO
(Individualized Guidelines and Outcomes) is a decision support tool that
analyzes person-specific health information either provided by the
individual or drawn from an electronic health record. It uses equations
derived from, and validated against, national datasets and clinical
trials. It incorporates clinical evidence related to diseases,
behaviors, risk factors, and interventions. The results generated by
IndiGO provide a graphical representation of an individual's risk of
conditions or diseases, and the effects of interventions that are most
effective in reducing those risks. IndiGO can be used at the point-of-
care, involving the patient in the decision making process and improving
collaboration between patient and provider. IndiGO was developed by
healthcare modeling organization Archimedes,
Inc. Archimedes' core technology - the Archimedes Model - is a
large-scale, clinically realistic, trial-validated, mathematical model
of health and healthcare. The Archimedes Model is continually validated
by comparing the results of the model to outcomes seen in real
multi-national clinical trials and epidemiological studies. Archimedes,
a Kaiser Permanente Innovation, is based in San Francisco, California.
For more information on the company, visit our website at www.archimedesmodel.com.
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