For people with complex medical conditions, centralizing their health records may not be all that simple. Records may be scattered across different institutions and certain information may not be available when it really matters.
“There’s not a great repository for storing data from all those [different medical] entities," James Jones told Business First in a Nov. 17 interview. Jones is the founder of adyaid, a digital health service that aims to centralize health information.
Jones created the Albuquerque startup following his daughter Adyson's 2015 diagnosis with a mitochondrial disease called MELAS. Her care team consisted of doctors and specialists from across the country, all of which recommended she wear a medical identification bracelet, according to adyaid. Medical bracelets are designed to provide people with information about the wearer's health, but can have limited physical space to describe medical conditions.
Adyaid's medical identification platform, in contrast, works by offering a virtual profile that can be used to get health information about the user, who decides what information is visible. Jones said the platform is an "easy, hopefully intuitive" way to provide information to first responders. Profiles can be shared using QR codes displayed on stickers and mobile phones.
Adyaid has competitors but other products aren't quite as simple, Jones contends. Pricing varies, from as low as $7.99 per month all the way up to $94.99 per month for a plan that offers 100 or more profiles — a tier useful for nursing homes or other larger facilities.
New Mexico Secretary of State records show the Albuquerque company was formed in 2016, although it officially launched about two weeks ago, Jones said.
Moving forward, in the next four to five weeks, Jones said he hopes to add imaging to the adyaid platform.
