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Mission 06 · Healthcare

elleFA: Symptom-tracking app for women's health research

An app for women's health research: patients log pain, fatigue and other symptoms, and researchers get structured, encrypted data. The app and its backend launched in 2.5 months.

elleFA on three phones: the pain sketch on a body outline, a chart of symptoms across the cycle, and the daily mental-health check with mood and emotions.
Client
elleFA Inc.
Industry
Healthcare, medical research
Platforms
Progressive web app
Built with
Next.js, Strapi, AWS

01 · Business context

The problem

Academic research teams need reliable tools to collect clinical data from patients.

elleFA needed an app that tracks pain and fatigue, two key measures in research studies and clinical trials, to collect medical data for university research.

Medical data is highly sensitive, and a breach can have legal consequences. So the main requirement was the highest level of data security, with encryption of all incoming data.

The client

elleFA Inc.

elleFA set out to build a digital health app that supports patients and women's health research: an easy way to track pain, fatigue and other symptoms, especially for conditions such as endometriosis, with secure data collection that connects patients and researchers.

02 · Key features

What we built

A progressive web app for phones, with a Strapi backend and an admin panel. These are its most important features.

  • Symptom tracker

    Users log pain, fatigue, mood and other symptoms every day, including the type, strength, duration and location of the pain.

  • Surveys and weekly summaries

    Built-in medical surveys collect structured, patient-reported outcomes, and weekly summaries show how symptoms change over time.

  • Encrypted data

    All incoming data is encrypted, including users' personal details.

  • Admin panel

    The client's team manages users and data in a Strapi admin panel with filters, import and export.

elleFA on two phones: the home screen with a calendar and the day in the cycle, and the surveys ready for the user and already completed.

03 · Results

What changed

The app and its backend launched in August 2024, 2.5 months after work began.

Key achievements

  • App and backend launched in 2.5 months, in August 2024.
  • Finished within the agreed budget, in the client's words.
elleFA on three phones: the symptom tracker on a body outline, the lifestyle log (exercise, energy, alcohol), and saved summaries to share.

They were great communicators and problem solvers as unforeseen things came up.

Zoe GoldbergerCEO, elleFA

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