PRIVY – Mobile voiding diary application for monitoring urinary health
OND & HAI Jiyoung Lee, Hyojeong Jin, Dokyung Kim, Dooyoung Jung MD PhD & Hwang Kim
iF Design Award
2019
PRIVY Voiding Diary APP helps people monitor their urinating function quickly and simply from recording sound via smartphone without using urine cup and paper. PRIVY App analyzes the recorded sound of voiding volume and time, which allows the patient to understand self-voiding patterns, the status of the bladder, and detect urination symptoms. Thus, PRIVY App improves existing urination-related medical care. PRIVY App extract patterns from analyzed data, increase adherence to behavioral therapy by habit-forming, and help patients with self-diagnosis and early treatment.
PRIVY Smart Voiding Diary
PRIVY Smart Voiding Diary app identifies early signs and symptoms of urination diseases out of sounds recorded on a smartphone. PRIVY, a mobile app for prostate/bladder health, helps people monitor their urinating function from bathroom sounds and increase adherence to behavioral therapy. PRIVY App is designed to help patients overcome negative perceptions of urination behavior and measurement. Through clear and subtle data visualization, patients intuitively understand and are aware of self-urination patterns.
Problem
BPH and OAB symptoms are subtle and subjective, and patients are reluctant to communicate. Although it’s a common disease, due to lack of awareness and no simple tools available to check, it’s often developed into a chronic disease. Early treatment could reduce the cost of later diagnosis, medication, and surgical procedures, and prevents adverse effects.
The voiding diary is a record of urination behavior completed by the patient. It is among the best possible means of obtaining objective data on subjective symptoms. Specifically, patients are required to log voiding volume, its timing, and symptoms of each voiding activity for 4 days. Traditional paper voiding diary which is based on a scaled plastic cup and timetable printed papers has a poor completion rate, difficult to diagnose, and has hygienic issues because the patient requires to carry materials before and after using the toilet.
PRIVY Design
Circle(motif of the concentric circle), extracted from PRIVY brand identity, is not only used to measure but guide the user to recognize his urination pattern at a glance and enable patient-centric care. PRIVY App is designed to help patients overcome negative perceptions of urination behavior and measurement. With clear and subtle data visualization, patients intuitively understand and be aware of self-urination patterns.
Solution
Ordinary paper-based voiding diary requires extra time for urologist for calculating the clinical index. For a better seamless experience, PRIVY Urologist dashboard, pre-calculates the clinical index. As a result, urologists can diagnose patients more effectively. Patient urination data from the application is synced in real time to the Urologist dashboard.
