Fora – A Platform to support health conversations

A platform to assist healthcare conversations

Fora supports conversations between patients and their care team. Our iOS and Android apps use a conversational interface and digital assistants to help patients along their care pathway, and provide an overview of a patient’s health to clinicians and clinical researchers.

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Conversation between patient, doctor and researcher

Fora provides assistants to support health conversations

Medication

Hi Jane. Have you taken your medication today?

Yes

Have you had any side effects?

Yes, I have unfortunately

Which side effects?

Low energy

Problems with sleep

Dry mouth

Nausea

Problems with appetite

Vomiting

Diarrhea

Dizziness

Headache

Sorry to hear that. I’ll pass this onto your care team and you can discuss it at your next appointment

Each assistant does one thing well

Wellbeing

Let’s look at your wellbeing. How would you rate it today?

70/100

Thanks

Your average wellbeing score over the past week was 50 and improved by 10 points compared to the week before.

For example the cognition assistant gives patients tasks to measure cognitive health, enabling researchers to gather better data and clinicians to make better treatment decisions.

Cognition

I would like to do a cognition test

Hi Jane. No problem. This should only take 30 seconds.

Let’s get started.

Thanks. You scored 44 points.

Better conversations support better outcomes

Fora supports conversations between patients and their care team. It makes it easier to share decisions which can lead to better treatment outcomes and better care.

Assistants can team up to support different types of health conversations

Our assistants are specialists in their own area, but they are adept at working together to support many types of health conversations.

Conversations to inform treatment decisions

Track patients mood, cognition, adherence and side-effects to help find the right treatment plan to suit a patient and involve them in their own care through shared decision making.

Conversation between patient and researcher

Conversations to gather research data

Fora fits into the everyday life of patients and is efficient in gathering data at high-frequency to support clinical research.

Conversations to support complex health interventions

The combination of digital assistants can be tailored, and augmented by bespoke assistants, to monitor and manage patients with complex needs such as concomitant conditions.

Meet our assistants

Our assistants are specialists in their own area, but they are adept at working together to support many types of health conversations.

We are working with partners to create new assistants

We collaborate with partners to develop new assistants which are skilled in particular areas of healthcare management and tracking.

Conversations using Fora

Fora can be tailored to support the delivery of care and medical research. Instances in which Fora has been deployed to date include:

Clinical integration

Patient Management of Depression Through Technology: a Study of Digitally Enabled Engagement

Partner: Takeda Pharmaceuticals USA, Lundbeck LLC and Advocate Health Care
Status: In progress