Balance your Life
PRESERVING MENTAL HEALTH
ANIMYS a clinically validated mobile platform, developed to help to individually and objectively monitor, analyze and document behavior and behavior changes.
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Animys was developed for people with disorders as the affective mood disorders, like Depression, Manic-Depressive Disorder or others, but also for people for those changes in behavior could have negative effects on their lives, like Burnout, Gambling, any kind of Addiction. For all those, but also for their doctors, therapists and supporters, Animys can offer objective Monitoring and Support for early and timely detection of changes.
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Animys can help preventing crises from happening and support maintaining a healthier lifestyle. Its main functionalities include detecting of early warning signs of depressive or manic episodes, detection of basic changes, but also getting a better insight into the illness by psychoeducation.
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With an App for the smartphone and Web-Interfaces Animys uses only devices that have already been integrated into people’s lives.
The Animys-App on the Patient’s smartphone helps to detect behavioral and mood change by collecting and analyzing data from the smartphone’s internal sensors. The Web-Interface displays the analysis of the sensor data in an easy to understand way and allows to share them directly with the doctor.
For all analyses, Animys only access data, which is standardly and frequently processed and analyzed by any smartphone.
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Protection of privacy and data is of utmost importance for us. Therefore, Animys anonymizes any data before it processes it and only uses latest standards for encryption and secure connections.
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Animys has been developed and validated in collaboration with patients and psychiatrists at the mental health clinic in Hall in Tirol, Austria (tirol clinics).
For patients
A BUDDY FOR EACH PATIENT
Animys is the patient’s buddy, who offers personalized support when it is needed. By using modern technology, which is already integrated into people’s lives, Animys:
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- tracks automatically and non-invasive disease-specific risk factors.
- detects changes at an early state to avoid depression-mania crises.
- provides situation-based psycho-education.
- displays analyses in an easy-to-understand-way.
- integrates easily into the Patient’s life.
- is a constant companion providing a safety-net.
This way the Patients
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- can get treatment when needed.
- gain more health expertise, learn when to act and how to react.
- feel in control of their mental health conditions.
- have shortened times at doctors’, hospitals’ or in waiting lists.
- have an increasing quality of life.
A SYSTEM THAT SUPPORTS ME WHEN I NEED HELP!
“For me a huge goal is to keep being stable! When you get something like Animys, that can objectively show you how your state is progressing, whether it goes up or down, is very helpful for this. Otherwise, you are always on the edge and asking yourselfe ‘Am I overdoing it again?”
Patient, male, Tyrol, Austria
“I see this in terms of self-reliance. I as a patient am the one who has to react first, not the doctor! Otherwise, it would mean to give up all responsibilities. I want to learn to deal with my illness. But it is important to know that there is something, like Animys, in my life that helps in case I cannot manage!”
Patient, female, Tyrol, Austria
For doctors and other health care professionals
SUPPORTING TREATMENT AND CARE
Animys offers evidence-based support to Mental Healthcare Providers. By using the Animys’ various features Healthcare Providers can
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- stabilize chronic patients with in-time intervention
- due to early detection of change and warning signs.
- deliver high-quality treatment.
- shorten or adjust the time of appointments to the actual needs.
- reduce hospital admissions.
- differentiate their practice and be on the cutting edge of mobile health treatments.
- conduct detailed analyses of the each patient’s development with the system analytics and thus
- better understand the unique characteristics of each patient’s illness.
- provide individual and personalized therapy .
- stabilize chronic patients with in-time intervention
TREATMENT IS EASIER AND MORE EFFICIENT
“When a patient comes to an appointment, I do not have to do the recent anamnesis in detail for slowly figuring out what had happened in the last weeks or what a patient remembers anyway!
A patient using Animys shares the information of his App and we can analyze together what happened. Also, analysis and graphs of the previous months are possible. This way we can get much quicker to a decision about how to go on with therapy. Whether we should increase or reduce the dosage of the medication or change it!“
Psychiatrist, Austria
For Insurances, Employers, and Public
PRESERVING MENTAL IS PRESERVING MANPOWER
By supporting Animys (e.g. by offering to pay for the Animys-services), you can help your clients, employees, citizens to
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- keep a healthy lifestyle.
- stay in stable mental health conditions.
and thus
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- preserve manpower by
- reduction of number and length of sick leaves.
- reduction of unemployment
- reduction of early retirement due to invalidity
- preserve manpower by
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- significantly lower costs for health care.
- reduce burden for society and health care system.
AUTONOMY OF THE PATIENT IS ESSENTIAL
“We need to offer more compentence to the patient! Patients should get the capabilities to learn and understand when it is necessary to act. And we need to enforce the patient actually to act when necessary. Animys can support the patient to do this!“
Insurance Expert, Austria
About Us
MEET THE TEAM
Animys is a startup based in Innsbruck, Austria. It is supported by leading universities, researchers, and professionals in the fields of medical technologies for mental health. Our vision is to build clinically-validated mobile health interventions that can make a real difference in health care and prevention.
Our team is comprised of professionals from research, medical, psychology, and business. If you want to learn more about our team, slide over the images below to open our CVs.
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Acknowledgements
Animys thanks for their support:
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Our Partners
Animys co-operates with several healthcare and therapy facilities and works with professional designers and software developers
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Health Care
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Development and Design
CI and WebDesign
Alexander Kampf, Oliver Bialas
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Nominations and Awards
Animys has been nominated for several national and international Awards 2015 and 2016
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Top 5 ad AdventureX Competition 2015
Top 3 at Tiroler Innovations Preis 2015
Nominated for Constantius Award 2016 via our Partner M-Pulso
Nominated for World Summit Award Mobile 2016 of the United Nations in category “Health and WellBeing”
Invited Start-Up at Global Summit 2016
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How can we help you?
We would be happy to talk to you about how the Animys solution could help you as a patient, mental health specialist or service. So if you are interested or would like to get more information, do not hesitate to contact us:
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