With every mile we walk, bike, hike, or run, every Pilates or yoga class we take, every decision to eat and drink better, and even with every pause in our daily lives to breathe deeply and focus on the positive, the goal of our healthy activities is to to be just that, healthy. We’re building Clinicoin as a global community of health-conscious people to help each other be our healthiest selves.
But, the fact is, sometimes we get sick. When that happens, we depend on proven treatments, medicines, and therapies from many different sources and types of practitioners to put us back on the path to wellness. And, we rely on science, research, and innovation to continue to build on those existing approaches and increase their effectiveness.
The experience of the Clinicoin team in the healthcare and research industry makes this project even more powerful. Creating a fully connected ecosystem of health and wellness that bridges the gap between the daily activities and decisions that impact our health with the professionals that we rely upon when we’re sick will synchronize these historically dichotomous relationships. Additionally, the open source ecosystem will provide opportunities to monitor and more deeply engage people in current health practices while fostering innovation to create new solutions for health issues.
We know that keeping people engaged in their health and wellness is one of the costliest challenges facing the healthcare industry today. Annually, missed appointments cost the industry $150 billion USD and medication non-adherence (aka not taking medicine as prescribed) is responsible for a $278 billion loss.
Without effective communication between health organizations and the individuals they serve, there is a greater chance that health improvement regimens will not be followed. Falling behind on health management can increase hospitalizations, healthcare expenses, and the costs of clinical research and pharmaceutical development.
That’s where Clinicoin comes in. Clinicoin is an open source, blockchain-leveraged health and wellness platform that helps health organizations and professionals connect with their clients, recruit engaged participants for research programs, and provide compliance confirmations for requirements such as taking medicines or fulfilling healthcare plan goals. The Clinicoin community is made up of individuals who appreciate being rewarded for their healthy activities while being connected with the people who help them stay healthy. The combination of these elements sets the stage for innovation and validation across all kinds of research projects.
When we look at an example of how Clinicoin benefits health organizations with research and development programs, we know that the success of a clinical trial or study greatly depends on participant interest, engagement, and completion. 85% of clinical studies fail to retain enough participants, an average of 30% of participants will drop out of a study after enrollment, and companies lose $600,000-$8,000,000 per day when a clinical trial is delayed due to recruitment problems.
The Clinicoin ecosystem is built with a proven, secure messaging platform that empowers providers and researchers to maintain effective mobile communications with participants throughout their programs. Clinicoin can improve recruitment via opt-in messaging for interested participants among the Clinicoin community, drive retention via secure updates and in-app engagement, and increase adherence via secure reminders and delivering digital currency (aka CLIN tokens) as rewards for successful completion of tasks. All of these help find, and keep, the best participants for clinical research and trials.
For example, Susan is a researcher conducting clinical studies for new medicines and therapies. The success of her studies depend on effectively communicating with and engaging participants to ensure they stay in the study and complete tasks. Clinicoin enables Susan to communicate securely with study participants on their own mobile phones and reward them for completing tasks like attending appointments, filling out surveys, or reaching study milestones.
Susan determines a task she’d like her study participants to complete. She assigns a number of Clinicoin tokens as a reward for completing each task, and delivers the tokens after completion. Participants use tokens in the Clinicoin healthcare marketplace for access to useful tools, apps, products, and services. Using Clinicoin, Susan can utilize a rewards-based mobile messaging platform to communicate with recruit, retain, and engage with trial participants to work towards a successful study.
In our pursuit to build the largest cryptocurrency-based health and wellness community on the planet, we aim to improve the lives of everyone through engaged users, connected health organizations, and the developer community that helps to innovate and make us healthier.
The Clinicoin Token Sale starts on February 21, 2018. You can earn 500 free CLIN by registering early.
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