Finding effective mental health care can be a challenge is why two northeast graduates have teamed up with a partnership between their health care startups.
Nita Akoh wanted to use biometrics to improve mental health care. Jay Nakhai wanted a consulting practice that helped empower patients and clinicians.
The two northeast graduates, who have obtained their diplomas over 10 years apart, have each created their own business to continue these missions. Then, a fortuitous connection sparked an achievement: they could associate together to achieve more their objectives.
At the end of May, Aeon Counselling, founded by Nakhai, launched a partnership with Myatlas, which was founded by Akoh, with clinicians with Aeon using real -time biometric data of Myatlas patients in order to provide more personalized and effective advice.
“We are starting this campaign for the month of awareness of mental health in May, where we will pay for a year of mental health treatment for 100 students,” said Akoh, who obtained his northeast diploma in 2023. “We really want to focus on the resolution of the diseases of the young population of Gen Z with care, who understands them and is willing to meet them.”
Thanks to the partnership, patients using Myatlas – a platform that collects patient data such as sleep habits – can share their behavioral health data with AEON clinicians to help them identify high -risk patients and improve care by offering realistic suggestions given the patient’s lifestyle.
Akoh had the idea of Myatlas while studying behavioral neuroscience in the northeast. As a student, she worked in a psychiatric hospital where she was responsible for collecting vital signs with patients, making rounds taking their pulse, temperature and heart rate.
“I was wondering, do we do something with this data?” Why am I doing this? ” She said.
But later, when you work on research that has used irmf data to try to reduce hearing hallucinations in patients with schizophrenia, Akoh has seen the value of biometrics informing health care. It inspired Myatlas, which she worked full of time after graduating.
The platform collects data from user digital devices such as their phone or fitbit and uses it to provide information to users on how to manage their mental health struggle. Rather than moving away from it, Myatlas uses artificial intelligence. Its model is formed with a cultural and contextual consciousness, so that the platform can offer personalized information according to the gender, race and other factors of a person.
“We use their data to give patients recommendations and mental health interventions,” said Akoh. “We can say that someone is stressed, and we give them a stress intervention. We can say that you do not sleep well, and we give you a recommendation for that. One cool thing that differentiates us is that we are not only making recommendations. We focus on stress demand.
Users can also get rewards to achieve their mental health goals. If a user needs more serious help, the application can refer to people in partnership clinics, including AEON.
Nakhai founded Aeon a few years after obtaining his northeast diploma in 2010 with a baccalaureate of science in psychology. Approved therapist and social worker, Nakhai did a lot of de -escalation training for other clinicians as well as for teachers and police. She decided to start her own business focused on this, but during the pandemic, Aeon moved to the provision of advice.
“We started working at the microphone with individuals, couples and families,” said Nakhai. “It has become bigger and greater, and through certain networks, the people of Myatlas seemed to have found us, and it was a perfect marriage at the moment, because it was a platform that has a lot of great ambitions, and fundamentally, my company is used exactly this product for the community.”
Akoh and Nikhai met with a mutual connection and were shocked to find how much they shared, including the teachers of their stay in Northeastern.
“There is something that students in the northeast share simply in common, and the way we approach situations and innovation,” said Akoh. “It made so much sense that we studied the same thing. We were taught by the same people, just at different times. ”
From there, the collaboration was born. AEON suppliers can use the platform for Learn more about patients and say When they are at risk.
“The decision to engage in therapy is deeply moving, and it takes some time to make these choices,” said Nikhai. “You want to feel safe where you are going.” We are trying to help this application be able to support all additional or higher levels of care. We also have the connections. I think it was logical that our companies join and collaborate as we complement each other. ”