Reads the numbers.
Glucose, blood pressure, weight and medicines taken, from the phone's health data, with the person's permission. Readings arrive when they arrive.
For clinics · Diabetes and the heart
One loop for diabetes and the heart, on the phone the patient already has.
In design, first patient enrolled
The loop. Glucose, blood pressure, weight and medicines in one loop, with the yearly eye screen as its checkpoint. In diabetes, pressure protects the eyes, the kidneys and the heart, so they are watched together.
Where the readings come from. From the health data already on the person's phone, with their permission. Which cuff or meter writes it there is the person's business; the companion does not talk to a device.
When the record goes quiet. The companion asks the person for the number, by text or voice, in their language, and records the answer. A loop does not depend on a device sync.
The same safety net. Every reading and every call runs on the same safety net as the Navigator: a fixed rule decides what happens next, and your clinicians keep every clinical call.
What the companion does
Reads, asks, explains, and checks against the standard of care.
Asks when it goes quiet.
When no reading has arrived for a while, the companion asks the person for the number, by text or voice, in their language, and records the answer with its time.
Explains, in plain words.
What a reading means and what to do next, in the same message or call. A question that needs a clinician gets "ask your doctor", and the companion can book the visit.
Checks the standard of care.
Medicines and yearly checks on the record are compared with the published standards for diabetes and the heart. A gap becomes "ask your doctor", with the standard named.
For clinics first: the companion is offered through the clinic where one exists. A personal edition follows.
One loop watches
Five things, and one yearly checkpoint.
The eye screen is the loop's yearly checkpoint, and the part that runs today: it is the Navigator. The rest of the loop is in design, with the first patient enrolled.
- Glucose
- Blood pressure
- Weight
- Medicines taken
- The yearly eye screen
A question for the doctor, not a prescription.
When the standard of care names a medicine or a check the record does not show, the companion raises it to the person as a question for their doctor, with the standard named, and to the clinic as one line on its list. The companion does not prescribe, stop or change a dose or a medicine. Tiers come from the safety net; doses come from the clinician.