Our Vision
Empowering patients through digital health innovation
What BLUE means
Best e-heaLth UsEr
A best e-health user will be any person taking benefit from enhanced awareness and control of her/his own biological and clinical data, recorded manually or via connected devices through lifetime.
Each day, a large amount and variety of biological and clinical data are generated but only few are captured or recorded — and even less are effectively used to meaningfully monitor and improve personal and public health.
BLUECompanion conveys the concept of empowerment: the individual taking better control and responsibility of her/his health through digitally enabled routines.
If current healthcare organization of Western countries assigns limited capacity to individuals, available and incoming digital technologies greatly modify the terms of the equation regulating the interplay of responsibilities in medical decisions.
Rebalancing Healthcare
Physicians, regulators, and payers play key roles in determining therapeutic options. Thanks to the internet, smartphones, connected devices and social platforms, citizens now show mounting willingness to capture, monitor and use biological and clinical data — this is the start of real patient empowerment.
Physicians
Traditionally bear the highest responsibility for diagnosis and treatment, setting the standard of care.
Regulators
Define the appropriate and allowed use of pharmacological treatments and medical devices in given indications.
Payers
Weigh the most in limiting therapeutic options based on pharma-economic assessment and reimbursement grids.
Patients
At best "informed" about regulated medical options — but with mounting interest in capturing and using their own health data.
What BlueCompanion Does
Several structural obstacles limit patient empowerment: payer reimbursement grids, low medical literacy, and the impossible dialogue among healthcare actors. BlueCompanion is built to overcome them.
Enable Dialogue
Facilitate appropriate and effective communication between patients, clinicians, researchers, and all healthcare stakeholders.
Facilitate Data Use
Enable meaningful use of health-related data at the level of individuals, turning raw numbers into actionable health insights.
Catalyse Empowerment
Drive structural actions that facilitate a responsible and balanced patient empowerment versus traditional stakeholders.
BlueCompanion would like to enable this dialogue, facilitate appropriate and effective use of health related data at the level of individuals, and catalyse structural actions for a responsible and balanced patient's empowerment.
— The BlueCompanion Vision