MyRenal Care: A Kidney App Built Without Code

I am a kidney doctor. We’ve created a digital health solution that we call MyRenal Care that I created to help me manage my patients, without them having to come to see me. Our mission is to reach every individual in the world with who has kidney disease, chronic kidney disease, CKD, to empower them to make the best out of their own health care, and at the same time make it more efficient for health care systems, hospitals, governments, anyone around the world who is providing health care.

Who Uses MyRenal Care

The people who use our solution are both patients and clinicians and also the administrators in hospitals who who run clinics and and run health care systems. And we’ve been caring for eight years. We’re currently in one hospital with a commercial contract in the UK going live in a second in a couple of months, and we’re about to, fingers crossed, launch a wide multicenter research study getting more and more hospitals to use my renal care with more and more patients to use my renal care.

Why We Chose Knack

One of the beauties of Knack is it’s pretty simple to use. It landed on Knack because of its ease, its its its pricing, because back then, we were self funding. And it it was a perfect balance of of the right price and the right ease and to do everything that we wanted to do. I’m a doctor, you know, code. I mean, I I’ve now I’m now able or capable of saying the right words at the right time, but I I’m nowhere near capable or understanding of code and tech, really. And it’s been amazing that I can build my renal care as complex as it is.

From Paper Records to Real-Time Insights

When we started off, our major focus was on patients doing dialysis at home. And I’m not gonna go into the detail of dialysis. Suffice to say, it’s a very complex procedure, and there are lots of bits of information that we, as clinicians, could do with knowing so that we can help patients. And patients were doing this at home.

And what what was happening in the past was they were writing all this data down in a book and then bringing the book to me every three months. And I would look through this book, this record of their dialysis treatments, and it would be horrific. I had given our first iteration of my renal care to a couple of patients who were doing dialysis in Portsmouth, and that’s in the UK where I work. And I was sat in this swimming pool thousands of miles away seeing data come through about how their dialysis was going, and that’s when I knew, you know, this this was really gonna work.

Impact and Recognition

We can review it and deliver advice and care digitally, and that is really, really impactful. And to the point that I’ll show you this. We won a an award. I’m sure you all know about the NHS.

That’s our prize health care system. And just four months ago, we won an NHS wide award where we were picked as the one company that projected the future of what the NHS would look like because and we did that with NEC, so you all should be really, really proud of that. We’re we’re not gonna stop. We’re gonna keep going.

Global Expansion and Future Vision

But I I think that just shows how you and what you’ve built allows us to fulfill our mission. Our goal is to lock out the UK market, prove the point, and then go global. We have had interest from Australia, Brazil, Ghana, Kazakhstan, loads of places around the world.

Empowering Non-Coders

The most satisfying thing for me is that someone like me who has no computer skills whatsoever other than being able to, you know, use Excel, basically, can jump onto Knack and create a solution that when you you log in as a patient or a clinician is incredible. And even your, you know, if your your standard setup when, you know, without any kind of personalization or adjustments to the code looks far superior to any tech that we use in health care. So everyone’s always amazed that I’m able to do this. It makes me laugh. I’m not gonna lie. I always take credit unless talking to people who know what they’re talking about.

The Power of Data and the Road Ahead

We are sitting on thousands upon thousands of data points for dialysis treatments for just people with kidney disease. You know, we’re tracking their blood pressure, their medications, their symptoms, their side effects. And it is very much in our vision that instead of being a solution that merely allows people to record so that doctors can see data and then make changes, the next straightforward step is to take that data and stick it through algorithms that are already defined in health care and chucking out advice. And that advice, I believe, firmly needs to go both to the patient and the clinician. The clinician will obviously have to approve that advice, but step one in empowering patients is give them the information that’s personalized to them so you don’t have to go in a textbook and understand all the details of diabetes and kidney disease. You guys have been fantastic partners. Keep up the good work.