We’re wearing purple for Migraine Awareness Month
June has been designated Migraine Awareness Month by the National Headache Foundation, and to express our support, Ubiqi Health is wearing the purple Migraine Awareness Ribbon on our Facebook and Twitter avatars.
Few outside the migraine community realize how many people suffer from migraines and how much migraine and headache disorders impact the personal and professional lives of sufferers. Migraine Awareness Month strives to raise the profile of migraine in the minds of the public, but also educate migraine sufferers on the different support resources available to them. What are you doing in your community to raise migraine awareness? Let us know what you are doing or if there are noteworthy activities we should share!
Here is some further information about the different Migraine Awareness Month activities going on this June:
- National Headache Foundation: Help Make Migraines Visible
- Migraine Awareness Month chats and other activities from SomebodyHealMe
- Migraine Awareness Month Blogging Challenge from Fighting Headache Disorders
[...] June is Migraine Awareness Month, and this month’s Woman in mHealth is Jacqueline Thong, co-founder and CEO of Ubiqi Health. Ubiqi’s first web and mobile health app is the Ubiqi Migraine Tracker that helps migraine sufferers track the frequency and intensity of their headaches, any treatments used, and possible triggers. Patients are now able to have access to data that was only previously available to companies conducting clinical trials. In fact, that is precisely Thong’s background. The idea for the Migraine Tracker grew out of Thong’s previous work with pharmaceutical companies in clinical trials. She says patients who kept personal diaries as part of the trials were frustrated that they could not have access to their own data. “It would unblind the study,” Thong explains. Ubiqu is now working in partnership with pharmaceutical companies and research institutions who are interested in the anonymized patient data Ubiqi is collecting. Thong says that the patient user benefits in ease of tracking and working more effectively with their doctor. But she says there is an even greater benefit in the aggregated data to the physician tracking patients collectively, and to partners tracking patterns and efficacy of treatments. [...]