Symptomatic (Timelines)

Timelines is an app for managing chronic medical conditions, initially designed by a member of the multiple sclerosis community.

It accesses your HealthRecords from 500+ participating hospitals and 6500+ office locations, and visualizes them on a longitudinal timeline. 

It allows you to filter by category and topic, edit entries, and add self-reported conditions, symptoms, medications, and more.

Timelines can be accessed on multiple devices, including phone, tablet, and desktop; and displays beautifully on high definition monitors with the addition of a video adapter.

Users may find a longitudinal timeline useful when tracking care plan progress, medication changes, preparing for second-opinion consultations, resolving mis-diagnoses, conducting pre-surgical planning, monitoring post-operative stepdown, monitoring remote patients, investigating medical malpractice, and many other uses.

It may be of particular interest to users with histories of childhood illnesses, multiple complex conditions, autoimmune disorders, undergoing cancer treatment, recovering addicts, have had complex surgeries, or who are managing graceful aging. Anybody managing 20+ years or more of medical records may find this software useful.


RELEASE NOTES

1. Pricing
Yes, this is $200 software. It’s packed with features, and is one of the few Continuity of Care Documents (CCD) editors currently available.

2. Similar Apps
This software is a mashup of Adobe Acrobat, Ableton, and Final Cut Pro… if those products had been designed for healthcare. Symptomatic is similar to Adobe Acrobat because it fetches, assembles, and authors CCD documents, which are somewhat similar to a PDF. And it’s similar to Ableton and Final Cut Pro because it displays and visualizes that data on a longitudinal timeline.

2. Product Comparisons
Designed similar to a microfiche machine, we tend to think of this software as similar to a pair of eyeglasses, in that it allows a user to visualize and see their medical history in way they couldn’t without the software. A nonessential accessory for most, critical for some, and well worth its price to its intended market.

3. Time Savings
We believe this software is able to save the typical user many days or weeks of work in collecting, collating, and visualizing their health data.

4. Target Demographic
For this initial release, we’re looking for clinicians, bioinformaticists, health IT professionals, biohackers, quantified self enthusiasts, futurists, athletes, and others who have disposable income and/or motivating interests to track their own healthcare. Knowledge of code editors, JSON, XML, DICOM, VCF, CCD-A, and other data formats is useful, as well as familiarity with ICD10, LOINC, SNOMEDCT, and medical coding terminologies.

5. Business Model
Unlike other apps, we are a scrappy startup, patient-owned, self-funded, and this software does not rely on advertisements or in-app subscriptions. So we’re selling directly to you the consumer.

6. Profit Usage
The listed price allows the author to pay off her grad-school loans and finance continuing medical education, while keeping the lights and servers on, build a team, fix bugs, travel to conferences, keep up to date with changes in the interoperability protocols, and otherwise build this application as a business. We’d like to hire employees to develop this idea, provide health insurance, rent an office and design studio, and so forth.

7. Freemium Model
We intend to eventually offer a viewer-only version of the software for free. We welcome conversations with health plan administrators on how their plans might underwrite access to Symptomatic for their members.

9. Should You Buy This App
Please ensure that your records are available from a participating healthcare provider(s) by loading HealthRecords into your Apple Health app before purchasing this software.