Digital headache clinic to welcome patients

According to neurologist Dr Mark Braschinsky, more than 1.4 billion people suffer from migraines all over the world and only 1-2% end up receiving good-quality treatment. To improve the accessibility of and offer better migraine treatment, our team member Migrevention is currently setting up a digital headache clinic which consists of a mobile app for patients interlinked with a desktop for specialists.

“The Migrevention digital headache clinic consists of a mobile app for patients where they can keep a headache diary and receive remotely monitored migraine treatment. Migrevention also offers a special control panel for specialists to monitor the treatment of patients as well as assign and change treatment,” says CEO of Migrevention Katrina Laks.

The digital clinic is also available for English and Russian speakers.

“We currently have a prototype of the Migrevention digital headache clinic which has passed a clinical pilot study at Tartu University Hospital,” adds Katrina Laks.

“Migraine is most common in the age group below 50 years, i.e. the working age population,” Laks highlights. “This means that it has a significant adverse impact on healthcare and the quality of life of migraine patients. Healthcare resources are limited, waiting lists are long and there are only a handful of specialist migraine centres. As a result, in some European countries, patients have to wait as long as up to 11 months, 5-6 months on average, to see a specialist or get treatment.”

“By developing a fully functional and multidisciplinary digital solution, we take some of the load off migraine patients, improve their quality of life and optimise healthcare resources,” says Laks to emphasise the importance of their work.

Piret Hirve, HealthTech and Connected Health Cluster Manager at science and business park Tehnopol, says she is delighted to see how the cluster project born a year ago has grown into a solution that changes healthcare and benefits patients as well as doctors. Migrevention is also an excellent example of the cluster community helping bring to life a resultative project – Quretec OÜ, another member of the Connected Health cluster, is helping set up the digital headache clinic. Developments related to health are complex and time-consuming. Migrevention, however, has managed to prove that solutions arising from genuine necessity help improve everyone’s health.

Migrevention OÜ and Quretec OÜ will be hosting the opening event of the Migrevention digital headache clinic development on Zoom on 16 June 2021 at 15:00 with Enterprise Estonia’s Estonian-Norway partnership Norway Grants ‘Green ICT’ programme.

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The Migrevention digital headache clinic app is available for downloaded free of charge from Google Play and Apple Store.

The Connected Health cluster led by Tehnopol Science Park is Estonia’s biggest healthcare tech community, uniting health service providers, health tech companies and all other key interest groups in the field. The cluster’s support enables domestic cooperation projects and the export of health technological solutions to other countries.

The cluster’s activities are co-financed by Enterprise Estonia.