Elsa Science

Supporting People Living With a Chronic Disease, to Live Life to Its Fullest.

Technologies at Elsa Science:

AWS

CSS

Javascript

Python

React Native

Node.js

Git

React.js

Typescript

Mongodb

Kubernetes

About Elsa Science

Elsa Science is a platform with a mission to bring individuals, families, patient organizations, health-care providers and scientists closer together for a greater good – to learn from each other and support individuals diagnosed with chronic disease to live life to its fullest.

Elsa lets patients become their own personal researchers by providing them with a better understanding around how lifestyle factors may affect their disease activity measurements for chronic disease.

How it all started

The year is 2017. Yet another conference on how to digitize health care for the benefit of all parties. The scientific community, researchers and professors, as well as the health-care professionals express their desire for shared knowledge to improve the well-being of patients living with a chronic disease. But there is one seat missing on the podium, the patient’s.

Meanwhile, the people living with chronic disease are vocal in patient organizations, on social media and in the health-care debate. They wish to learn more and take part in the discussion. For a long time the knowledge about medical treatment and science has been hard to access for the individual person. It has been a challenge to get a holistic view of it, and also to influence it. Is it finally time to change all this?

It turns out, it is.

Joining forces

At this juncture, a team of experts from various disciplines, and people with personal experience of living with chronic disease came together to try and bridge this gap. The scientific researchers welcomed insights from people diagnosed with chronic disease. Health-care providers and the pharma industry agreed that great knowledge would be gained by understanding how people feel and act between hospital visits, in their actual everyday lives.

Elsa Science Was Born

Elsa Science is a platform with a mission to strengthen all sides by finding, and following up on, the right treatment to the right patient. Through powerful and science-based motivational and educational support, the platform brings individuals, families, patient organizations, health-care providers, pharma companies and scientists closer together for a greater good – to learn from each other and support individuals diagnosed with chronic disease to live life to its fullest.

Through meaningful content and design, we aim to make science accessible and put it in the hands of the people living with a chronic disease. And through data sharing, individuals can invite the scientific and health-care community to draw experience from their real world.

Elsa lets patients become their own personal researchers by providing them with a better understanding around how lifestyle factors may affect their disease activity measurements for chronic disease. We are currently focusing on giving support to patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). From a scientific perspective, Elsa gives access to data on rheumatic disease through the Riskminder foundation and scientific studies at Karolinska Institutet. Through this data, the patients will be able to see, among other things, how the prognosis of their disease is affected by medication adherence and lifestyle factors.