The HealthMpowerment Platform
Flexibility by design. Customizable features tailored to your digital health project’s needs.
Built flexible and easy to adapt for various populations and health topics, the mobile app can be branded and tailored to your individual project. Projects choose to “turn on/off” features depending on project needs. Branding includes name, font, colors, icons, badges, avatars, and gamification.
Apps in young populations are highly acceptable and efficacious in improving adherence.1,2,3,4 Mobile health (mHealth) platforms allow real-time assessment of user behavior and adaptive delivery of tailored content to fit individual challenges. Given that adherence is a dynamic behavior that changes over time, using an app with built in tailoring and algorithms to respond to the participant’s inputs enables the delivery of more relevant and responsive support.
Community Building
Forum discussions and polls foster community support and peer-to-peer sharing within the app about a variety of topics, from love and sex to pop culture.
Engagement with social support features were the most frequently used intervention components and were associated with improved HIV care outcomes in HMP 1.0.5
Activities & Articles
The resources center provides educational content across a range of health topics. The entire catalog of health and wellness resources including PrEP and PrEP side effects, adherence strategies, and general sexual and reproductive health can be leveraged, or individual articles/activities can be selected based upon your needs.
Quizzes and activities support app engagement and behavior change through information and skill-building.
Tailored health communication messaging promotes behavior change.7,8
Store
Participants earn “app bucks” that can be redeemed for real-world prizes delivered to their doorstep.
Ask the Expert
Care Navigator and Ask the Expert features allow for direct connection to a healthcare provider to answer health and wellness questions, field study and app questions, and connect to resources.
Counselor/Navigator Appointments
Adherence support groups for problem-solving build on prior experience with groups at sites. Peer and social support effectively promote adherence. Appointment reminders support continued engagement in care.
Goals
The Goals section of the app is a targeted technique to keep participants on a modulated learning schedule.
Push tailored resources through a curriculum that keeps participants on track with health and wellness goals. This feature walks them through the milestones, tasks, tips, connections, and offers a journal area related to their goals.
Avatar Customization
Gamification supports ongoing engagement. Users can customize their profile’s avatar, from facial features to accessories.
Administrative Dashboard
App administrative dashboard content management system facilitates study execution.
Health Tracker & Test Kits
Customize reminders to choose time, linked behavior, and message for daily medication reminders. Reminders improve adherence and are more effective combined with other habit-promoting strategies.9
Track and layer behaviors to see patterns and meet goals. Customized adherence tracking and metrics display daily and monthly progress to participants while raising awareness and modeling self-monitoring behavior toward consistent adherence habit. Youth want personalized reminders, messages, and accountability regarding medication taking.1, 10
Love Log
The Love Log feature assists participants in noticing patterns in their sexual activity that could potentially impact medication adherence and/or risk for HIV and STIs.
The Love Log allows participants to plan future sexual encounters, log past events, add notes about what happened, and rate the overall experience. This feature also helps coordinate 2-1-1 dosing for PrEP.
Calendar & User Analytics
Customizable in-app calendar displays upcoming study appointments and refill reminders. Participant app profile shows progress through the study with proportion of study visits completed. Tracking may increase attendance and retention.
The calendar and user analytics allow for self-monitoring and feedback.
Safety Planning
Participants can work with staff to identify warning signs, coping mechanisms, and support to get through a crisis.
Multi-Language Support
Our multi-language feature makes the app accessible to users around the world by allowing seamless language switching through the settings menu.
Content is automatically translated to the language you set, regardless of how it is entered, making it easy to connect, share, and participate no matter where you’re from or what language you speak.
Ecological Momentary Assessments
Speak Up Surveys use Ecological Momentary Assessments (EMAs) to capture real-time insights into users’ daily experiences, behaviors, and thoughts as they happen.
By collecting data in the moment, this feature helps reduces recall bias and supports researchers in better understanding the dynamic, day-to-day patterns that traditional surveys often miss.
