The Problem:

<aside> 🖊️ Despite the growing prevalence of chronic illness in the US, the community has remained under-recognized, understudied, and underserved. To effectively diagnose and treat chronic illness, healthcare providers must understand how their patient's illness manifests. However, for people with multi-symptom chronic illnesses, managing a complex combination of symptoms and triggers can be overwhelming, making it difficult to effectively communicate their concerns with providers.

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Our Solution:

<aside> 🖊️ Flourish started as a project in the Senior Design Challenge class, and its creators applied to DALI to see it come to life. The mobile app is designed to help patients with multi-symptom chronic illnesses track their symptoms, triggers, treatments, and more. The app uses existing research in conjunction with user data to help users better understand their illness by creating graphs that help uncover correlations in their health data. From the app, users can also easily generate custom health reports for their providers, empowering users to take control of their own health narrative.

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The Impact:

<aside> 🖊️ Flourish provides nuanced insight on under-researched chronic illnesses that will not only help patients collaborate most effectively with their healthcare providers to develop a plan of treatment, but will also contribute to the general public and research community's knowledge and awareness of chronic illness.

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Supported by the National Science Foundation under Award ID 1917002