When struggling with a health ailment, it can be extremely helpful to have a group that understands your exact issue and can provide support, especially if the group's members have experienced the same challenges—this is the premise behind 'Curatio,' an app that helps people around the world connect.
As well as offering a myriad of resources for tracking and learning about one's condition, Curatio helps people to form a virtual support group with peers who are undergoing the same challenges. With the app, these individuals are able to connect privately for a greater sense of community.
Curatio reveals that individuals who are socially isolated are at a higher risk of premature death, heart disease and stroke.
What Makes This Trend Stand Out
- Virtual Support Groups
- Opportunity for creating more apps and platforms that facilitate virtual support groups for individuals undergoing similar challenges
- Health Condition Tracking
- Opportunity to develop apps and tools that provide resources for tracking and learning about specific health conditions
- Community-based Health Apps
- Opportunity for creating apps that connect people around the world with the same health ailments
Sectors Adopting This
- Healthcare
- Disruptive innovation opportunities in healthcare for developing patient-connecting apps and platforms
- Technology
- Disruptive innovation opportunities in the technology sector for developing apps and tools for health condition tracking
- Social Networking
- Disruptive innovation opportunities in the social networking industry for creating community-based health apps
