HER Heard

Excited to report robust engagement and positive feedback so far from our beta users. We have started with a very simple app at first to ensure we only build what women want and can be very responsive to feedback for #humancentereddesign. #HERHeard #HERHerd ##womenshealth #patientengagement

📣 There's a new Progress Note from the University of Rochester Medical Center #OBGYN Department. In this article, Kyan Lynch, MD explores the recent update to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraception, and why it elicited such a strong reaction.

"Care for women with PCOS should be individualized and contextualized with the knowledge of the negative impact of weight stigma or weight management in the setting of eating disorders." #FemTech #womenshealth #PCOS https://lnkd.in/eAeUMGkp 

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If you want to understand the state of Women's health, this picture says it all. These are gynecological tools from the 1700s, shared with me by Dr. Elisabet Joa - what is highly concerning is how similar they look to the tools that are currently being used in gynecological practice today. Despite centuries of advancements in healthcare and technology, these designs have remained largely unchanged, raising serious questions about the prioritization of women's health innovation. Consider this: only 4% of global healthcare R&D funding is dedicated to women's health, despite women comprising 50% of the population. Conditions like endometriosis and PCOS, affecting millions of women worldwide, often take years to diagnose due to outdated tools and limited research. For example, the speculum has seen minimal innovation, despite being widely acknowledged as uncomfortable, painful and invasive. This is a stark reminder that we must do better. Women's health deserves attention, funding, and innovation to meet the needs of the 21st century. Women's health needs to be prioritized, its time for a revolution. #arunarevolution

“Women's health matters. Our health matters.” - Reshma Saujani

“Throughout modern medicine, we’ve considered women just a little bit hysterical” when there isn’t an obvious medical explanation for symptoms, Dr. von Deck said. But “you can’t treat anything if you don’t have a name for it.” #FemTech #menopause https://lnkd.in/gJbtH5w6

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I'm going to say it again, this time louder for those in the back: Gen X women are not the same as Boomer women. Gen X and "elder millennials" are entering #perimenopause and #menopause and we are not willing to "endure" it like our mothers and grandmothers did. From a business perspective, #healthtech for a 42 year old is different than for a 70 year old. #Usercentered #design needs to be specific. Gen X embrace being "feral", independent, and anti-authority. Just look at our music and the companies we build. We'd be the Col Jessep if the movie were remade to "A Few Good Women" https://lnkd.in/e95bnDSs As seen in this segment below: there is a dramatic increase in #womenshealth #socialmedia content. This is not merely the "chatter", rather this is gold. Ask #pharma execs on how much they spend on what they call "social listening." Social media #dataanalysis is valuable for customer discovery, user needs, #productdevelopment, and #GTM. At HER Heard, we have leveraged free social media data to get a lot done while bootstrapped. Also described: there are both "good" and "bad" among the expanding options for menopause sold to women in this growing market. I question how we are benchmarking (if this has not really been studied and is not taught in medical school). I'm a #data person. We need better data so we can draw better conclusions both at a population level and for #personalizedmedicine. If, as is described, menopause is at least 30 symptoms, then every woman has her own unique experience. For instance, even with this clip, I would differ from the young doctor speaking. Kudos to her that she sought out extra training that was missing from her family medicine residency. Still, speaking, as a patient it feels like she has book knowledge, compared to my lived experience and having spoken to 300+ women plus analyzed >10K posts. Perimenopause can start in your 30s, like it did for me. If you are waiting for your period to stop for 12 months, you are way, way behind on your #preventivehealth and #selfcare. Her well-meaning advice matches how my own #primarycare doctor, who is pre-menopause herself, needed me to educate her. This is not a criticism of her but of the entire system. While we wait for the #healthcare system to catch up, we have only the "wisdom of crowds." How do we better support women to get the information we need while protecting from scams and #misinformation? How much "protection" do women need versus a free market? When young women write off all women over 40 as the same, that, frankly, is anti-woman. When you are our age, you too will want to matter as an individual, not be treated like last week's leftovers rotting in the back fo the fridge. There is no need for generational warfare. We are in this together and this is generational work that needs to happen over many decades. Young'uns today will carry the torch forward when we are gone. Onwards. https://lnkd.in/eTUM5XzY

Per Jasmine Enberg: "Just this week, #TikTok reported over $100 million in US sales on Black Friday alone - indicating that users are still engaging heavily on the platform: https://lnkd.in/dJSHQ5qe So what happens next? Expect TikTok to appeal the decision to the Supreme Court. If that doesn’t work out in TikTok’s favor and the ban is enforced, it would cause major upheaval in the social landscape, benefitting Meta, YouTube and Snap, while hurting content creators and small businesses that rely on the app to make a living." For HER Heard, as we aggregate content and information from across #socialmedia sites, for curated vetted content on #womenshealth, this is a space that is very relevant to us and how we design our #product and #GTM. At minimum, we need to ensure we do not have dead links. Bigger picture, we have to think of which health influencers will get disrupted. Per Bloomberg, "Menopuase Tiktok" is a $15 billion market and growing. https://lnkd.in/eHKrxmg5 Personally, I've gotten far more information on #menopause #perimenopause #fibroids #endometriosis from TikTok, Twitter, and LinkedIn than from my primary care or from my medical school education. Ideally, we fix that systems issue, but, given the pace of change of institutions and multitude of crises facing healthcare, the system fixes for midlife women will not happen fast. Until then, we have to make do with alternate sources of information. These communities and platforms are essential for women to learn, connect, communicate. The same is true for many patient groups as well. Below is a more detailed #legal analysis of the decision by Leah Ward Sears