The Center for Connected Care, part of Boston-based Partners HealthCare, unveiled a research tool that is says will help a wide range of healthcare companies “better understand what consumers want from – and how they actually use – personal health technologies.”
The cHealth Compass, as it’s known, aims to help the healthcare industry, medical and wearable device makers, startups and investors get a better sense of the quickly evolving, and more demanding, consumer element of healthcare. Essentially, the compass creates customized surveys that target a large panel of adult consumers, patients, caregivers and healthcare professionals.
Participants will complete monthly surveys to provide data on their health and to provide insight on how various individual, family and community-level factors influence health behaviors, severity of medical conditions, lifestyle change and self-management of medical conditions, and technology adoption
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“So often, we see companies develop a device or program in a vacuum, without access to the individuals who could benefit from the product, ” said Dr. Kamal Jethwani, corporate manager for research and innovation at the Center.
Among other things, the compass aims to help with the development of product design, product evaluation, needs assessments and product testing.
