Migraine Insight
| Developer(s) | Shiny New App, Inc. |
|---|---|
| Initial release | March 29, 2018 |
| Stable release | 2.1
/ July 18, 2021 |
| Engine | |
| Platform | iOS |
| Website | migraineinsight |
Search Migraine Insight on Amazon.
Migraine Insight is a software application launched on the Apple Store on March 29, 2018. The app was designed to help people living with migraines manage their information and find patterns in their tracking data. The app provides a means to track migraines, triggers, symptoms, and treatments. The app allows users to create reports for their care team as well as providing the ability to analyze tracking data to create a ranked correlation list of which triggers are more strongly associated with migraine episodes. The application is owned by the Minnesota-based company, Shiny New App, Inc.
History
Migraine Insight started early planning in 2015. The company founder, Lynn Smith, was working at the Mayo Clinic on a separate and unrelated project. She established the idea of an app that would help patients track and analyze their migraine data through a personal search for her own migraine triggers. After leaving the Mayo Clinic, the founder began to develop the algorithms that would become the backbone of the ranking and scoring system.
In July of 2017, an early prototype of Migraine Insight named Migraine Mechanic was launched on the iOS platform. Its success proved that common patterns and correlations could be found in migraine tracking data gathered by users over a mobile app experience. It contained limited features and no subscription cost. It was a free proof of concept app that demonstrated a strong market need as well as the technical ability to succeed in finding migraine triggers for most users. The early algorithms found patterns for about 40% of users. It’s likely some users will not have triggers that have identifiable patterns. Some users may have no external triggers for their migraines, thus no patterns could be found.
Two days after Migraine Insight's 2.0 launch in July of 2021, Migraine Insight's first paying user signed up for a subscription. The app has steadily grown its user base since that day.
User Profile - People Living with Migraines
People living with migraines are 4 to 6 times more likely to attempt suicide.[1] Migraine is the second most common cause of disability worldwide.[2] Patients who get care are told to find their migraine triggers.[3] Finding triggers accurately is not something most patients can do on their own.
Features
Free Version Migraine Insight allows users to track any trigger, symptom, or treatment. Users can record migraines. Reporting features were added in Q4 of 2021, with the ability for the user to print a report for their care team.
Paid Version
Migraine Insight allows users to use the app's migraine pattern finder in the paid version. The paid features also allow users to see their migraine days on a calendar with selected triggers and other tracked events. This way, users can use computer-assisted pattern finding (technically, AI pattern finding) and also search for patterns themselves.
Migraine Insight uses a patent-pending unique set of search algorithms that allow users to sort through the many false positives that come from unclear tracking. A lot of migraine sufferers end up on exceptionally restrictive diets and lifestyles because they can't correctly identify triggers.
The Migraine Insight application is available on the iOS platform through the Apple Play store.
The company plans to launch the Android version of the app in 2022.
Popularity and growth
After the initial proof of concept in 2018, named Migraine Mechanic, garnered over 10k users through only organic app store searches and word of mouth, the decision was made to continue with the project due to obvious market interest.
Since the Migraine Insight 2.0 launch in early 2021, the app's user base grew to 100k by December 2021. Growth projections for 2022 show the app crossing the 0.5M user mark by the end of the year, and 1M users by the end of 2023.
Early prototypes were tested outside the app store. In one pre-store algorithm test of 60 participants, the 25 participants with results reduced migraines by an average of 23% over 6 months. Of the remaining group, 21 did not complete the 6 months of tracking and 14 participants had no identifiable trigger patterns.
Founder and Company Mission
Migraine Insight's founder, Lynn Smith, is a veteran of the software industry with over 20 years of experience at Fortune 100 companies and small startups, including Asymetrix Learning Systems, Best Buy, the Mayo Clinic and Target. She was one of the first 100 software developers to launch an app in the Apple App Store.
Ms. Smith began developing and testing the algorithms that would be the base for the machine learning engine of Migraine Insight in 2017. She suffers from migraine with aura. Her own system of trigger identification changed her migraine frequency from weekly to just several a year.
The company's mission is to help migraine sufferers by helping them gather the right information and use it in the right way.
References
- ↑ Reuters Staff (22 March 2012). "Severe headaches tied to suicide attempts: study". Reuters.
- ↑ T. J. Steiner (2 December 2020). "Migraine remains second among the world's causes of disability, and first among young women". The Journal of Headache and Pain.
- ↑ Mayo Clinic Staff (2 July 2021). "Migraine". Mayo Clinic.
External links
This article "Migraine Insight" is from Wikipedia. The list of its authors can be seen in its historical and/or the page Edithistory:Migraine Insight. Articles copied from Draft Namespace on Wikipedia could be seen on the Draft Namespace of Wikipedia and not main one.
