With the advancements in medical technology comes another challenge in the face of the increasing health data available. While it is definitely helpful in early diagnosis and more effective treatment, we are determined to present all the data available in a comprehensive and easy-to-understand way, so as not to scare our customers, causing them psychological harm or leaving them with more questions than answers.
Our goal is to link as much health data as possible to offer a holistic approach to your health. This includes your DNA results (evaluating your predispositions to certain diseases), blood test results (allowing you to monitor current state of your health continuously, at different moments), sleep and stress tests, as well as data from wearables and general lifestyle assessment.
This is how we work with the health data and decide which results to show
Macromo’s team of biologists and geneticists developed a Macromo Scoring method to decide which results to display to Macromo users. When we work with the risks of known diseases we run them through a thorough assessment, based on four distinct factors: preventability, detectability, treatability, and manageability. Each factor is assigned a relative score from 0 to 10. For example, on the scale of preventability, we estimate whether a ceratin disease can be prevented at all. As a result, we have diseases ranging from 0 (least preventable, like Huntington’s disease, for example) to 10 (as in most preventable, like lung cancer). The same applies for other categories, with some diseases scoring higher in one category and lower in the other. For example, when we look at detectability (how easy or difficult it is for doctors to detect the disease once it starts developing) some diseases, like hypertension, are quite easily detectable; thus, we assign them 10 points. Others, like Alzheimer’s disease which scores 0, are much more difficult to detect. Easily treatable diseases can score as high as 10 like hypothyroidism, or as low as 0, like, for example, ALS. Finally, we measure how easily the dieases can be managed, assigning from 10 points to the most manageable diseases (i.e. Type 2 Diabetes) to 0 points to the least manageable ones (like Parkinson’s disease). Categorizing each disease in this way, we can then come up with the Macromo Scoring, which combines all factors and determines which diseases we can further work with and present in our app.
We then filter the diseases based on these scores and provide information about the ones that can be prevented or treated - because we strongly believe in people’s right to know about them in advance, so they can take action.
