App4Independence

A4i is a platform for supporting people with complex behavioural and mental health conditions. Currently, A4i is being used to target the recovery processes in psychosis and schizophrenia, and newly in opioid use disorders.

Recovery is possible. The mental health landscape is in the middle of an awakening. With a focus on inclusion, support, and healing, A4i has tremendous possibilities to improve the lives of millions of people living with complex mental health challenges while reducing their strain on the healthcare system.

We're Extending the Reach of Care

Mobile Application

For patients with schizophrenia and other psychoses with evidence-based and peer-to-peer content and features.

Clinical
Portal

For clinics, clinicians and case managers to coordinate and engage patients with dynamic risk flagging and patient wellness indicators.

A4i will help patients, families, and providers, as we improve outcomes and the bottom line.

Current Efforts are Not Enough

Effective care engagement is routinely being challenged.

Current provider constraints limit many aspects of the clinical interaction, including risk identification and care planning, which can leave patients feeling disempowered and disengaged from the treatment process.

Illness Complexity

Medication/Treatment Non-Adherence

Brief and Infrequent Clinical Contacts

Heavy Cognitive Demands

Anxiety

System Constraints

Provider-patient interactions are extremely important to clinical outcomes where small improvements can lead to large benefits.

Our Mission

Is to help address key barriers to illness self-management and treatment engagement using an evidence-informed and empathy-based adaptive digital health intervention.

Improve Support

By harnessing patient-generated objective and subjective markers surrounding sleep, mood, medication adherence and app usage to better understand patient status.

Reduce Isolation

Through peer-to-peer anonymized content combined with patient specific intervention messaging, A4i encourages and fosters a supportive and informative community of patients.

Generate Insights

Leveraging patient check-in values and application usage data, indicators can be proactively monitored for potential signs of relapse.

Intervention and Community Content

Anonymous peer-to-peer support platform and opportunity to safely connect with others.

Curated CBT-based A4i content to address 4 main topics:

living with schizophrenia
social activation
stress and anxiety
motivation and cognition

Digital Phenotyping

Content personalization to help deliver evidence based strategies to enhance wellness and coping

Sound Detection and Hallucination Coaching

Ambient noise detection for assessing the validity of auditory hallucinations coupled with hallucination detection strategies that help you learn to cope with your hallucinations.

Medication and Appointment Reminders

Flexible medication and reminder system to encourage good medication adherence and attendance at appointments.

In application medication adherence messaging with additional escalation to SMS messages.

Low Medication Adherence Risk Notifications

A4i tracks medication adherence based on interaction and response from the user to track adherence patterns and escalate notifications to clinical staff for low medication adherence

Daily Wellness
Check-ins and Goal Tracking

Track mental health and sleep quality through a daily morning check-in.

With the flexibility to choose from preset goals or create ones for yourself, ask A4i to help track your goals for you through an evening check-in.

Low Mental Health and Poor Sleep Quality Notifications

Mental health and sleep quality trends can be monitored for negative trends that will trigger email notifications to clinical staff.

Are you a provider that is interested in getting a demo of the clinical portal?

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average likes per user

79%

users liked a post at least once

63%

users shared a post

80%

users would download A4i in the app store

Testimonials

“This app can change lives!”

“the app supports my wellbeing, helps me have peace of mind and staying on track to be well”

“pill reminders and voice recorder – helped sort out what I was hearing was hallucination vs real”

“my favorite features of the app were the feed because I like to read and share and the other is ‘notes to my doc’ which is very helpful – enjoyed how many likes they got on postings”