Welshare Health provides a Health Profile Matching Protocol (HPMP) enabling agentic researchers to securely query decentralized, user-controlled health profiles. This platform facilitates the validation of synthetic hypotheses by connecting researchers with specific patient cohorts for longitudinal data enrichment. Built on privacy-enhancing technologies, the system ensures data security while supporting FHIR interoperability for diverse research applications.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Individuals lack control over their personal health data, which is often inaccessible to them and vulnerable to misuse by corporations. This prevents patients from directly contributing to medical research and benefiting from personalized health insights.
Solution
Welshare Health provides a platform that empowers individuals to control their health data and directly participate in medical research. Users can connect their health data, choose how and when it is shared with researchers, and earn rewards for their contributions. The platform also offers personalized health insights and recommendations generated by AI, focusing on preventative care and participation in relevant clinical trials. By leveraging blockchain technology, Welshare ensures secure verification of user identity, privacy of information, and fair monetization of data.
Target Audience
The primary target audience includes individuals with diabetes and other health conditions who want to control their health data, contribute to medical research, and receive personalized health insights, as well as diabetes patient advocacy groups.
Features
- Secure cloud storage system for health data on German servers, with plans to transition to a fully decentralized storage system.
- Ability to contribute manual entries of blood glucose levels, medical questionnaires, and quality of life questionnaires.
- Personalized information on the latest clinical trials tailored to individual health data.
- "Welshare Digital Health Hub" providing tailored recommendations on other apps, devices, and initiatives.
- In-app points ("Sharies") awarded for data contributions, redeemable for tokens or fiat currency.
- Blockchain technology and cryptographic encryption for secure user identity verification and data privacy.