Ziyu Song

The Problem

A major issue in healthcare is the gap between how mental health and physical health are treated. When a child is diagnosed with cancer there is no digital tool to track their mental health, which causes trauma to go unnoticed until issues physically present themselves in ways that impact the child's response to treatment.

The Solution

Journal RX is an app that tracks mental health in order to improve pediatric cancer treatment and reduce the burden of trauma and depression that many patients experience. By tracking the patient's mental health, mood, and pain from the moment of diagnosis, through treatment and remission with a digital tool that connects to current hospital systems, care teams will have the data they need to address issues before they physically affect the patient by adjusting the patients' treatment plan on personal data rather than generalized statistics.