Balance your Life
PRESERVING MENTAL HEALTH
ANIMYS a clinically validated mobile platform, developed to help to individually and objectively monitor, analyze and document behavior and behavior changes.
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Animys was developed for people with disorders as the affective mood disorders, like Depression, Manic-Depressive Disorder or others, but also for people for those changes in behavior could have negative effects on their lives, like Burnout, Gambling, any kind of Addiction. For all those, but also for their doctors, therapists and supporters, Animys can offer objective Monitoring and Support for early and timely detection of changes.
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Animys can help preventing crises from happening and support maintaining a healthier lifestyle. Its main functionalities include detecting of early warning signs of depressive or manic episodes, detection of basic changes, but also getting a better insight into the illness by psychoeducation.
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With an App for the smartphone and Web-Interfaces Animys uses only devices that have already been integrated into people’s lives.
The Animys-App on the Patient’s smartphone helps to detect behavioral and mood change by collecting and analyzing data from the smartphone’s internal sensors. The Web-Interface displays the analysis of the sensor data in an easy to understand way and allows to share them directly with the doctor.
For all analyses, Animys only access data, which is standardly and frequently processed and analyzed by any smartphone.
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Protection of privacy and data is of utmost importance for us. Therefore, Animys anonymizes any data before it processes it and only uses latest standards for encryption and secure connections.
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Animys has been developed and validated in collaboration with patients and psychiatrists at the mental health clinic in Hall in Tirol, Austria (tirol clinics).
A Buddy for THE PATIENT
Animys is the patient’s buddy, who offers personalized support when it is needed. By using modern technology, which is already integrated into people’s lives, Animys:
- tracks automatically and non-invasive disease-specific risk factors.
- detects changes at an early state to avoid depression-mania crises.
- provides situation-based psycho-education.
- displays analyses in an easy-to-understand-way.
- integrates easily into the Patient’s life.
- is a constant companion providing a safety-net.
This way the Patients
- can get treatment when needed.
- gain more health expertise, learn when to act and how to react.
- feel in control of their mental health conditions.
- have shortened times at doctors’, hospitals’ or in waiting lists.
- have an increasing quality of life.
Supporting Treatment and Care FOR DOCTORS AND OTHER HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS
Animys offers evidence-based support to Mental Healthcare Providers. By using the Animys’ various features Healthcare Providers can
- stabilize chronic patients with in-time intervention
- due to early detection of change and warning signs.
- deliver high-quality treatment.
- shorten or adjust the time of appointments to the actual needs.
- reduce hospital admissions.
- differentiate their practice and be on the cutting edge of mobile health treatments.
- conduct detailed analyses of the each patient’s development with the system analytics and thus
- better understand the unique characteristics of each patient’s illness.
- provide individual and personalized therapy .
- stabilize chronic patients with in-time intervention
Preserving mental health is preseraving manpower FOR INSURANCES, EPMPOYERS AND THE PUBLIC
By supporting Animys (e.g. by offering to pay for the Animys-services), you can help your clients, employees, citizens to
- keep a healthy lifestyle.
- stay in stable mental health conditions.
and thus
- preserve manpower by
- reduction of number and length of sick leaves.
- reduction of unemployment
- reduction of early retirement due to invalidity
- significantly lower costs for health care.
- reduce burden for society and health care system.
- preserve manpower by
ABOUT US
Animys is a startup based in Innsbruck, Austria. It is supported by leading universities, researchers, and professionals in the fields of medical technologies for mental health. Our vision is to build clinically-validated mobile health interventions that can make a real difference in health care and prevention.
Our team is comprised of professionals from research, medical, psychology, and business.
I'm always working on something. Most of the time, it's getting results for my clients. But sometimes, it's a personal project that lets me explore new concepts and ideas.
Dr. Agnes Günerbl
is the CEO and co-founder of Animys GmbH. She was mainly responsible for developing Animys' IP. Agnes holds PhD in Natural Sciences of the TU Kaiserslautern. In previous years she led the TU Kaiserslautern participation in the EU FP7 MONARCA project on the use of smartphones for prediction, diagnosis, and support of Bipolar Disorder patients.
Dr. Silvia Gabriell
holds a Ph.D. in Cognitive Sciences (University of Padova, Italy, 2001), a Master degree in Occupational Psychology. Her work
includes participatory methods and human centred design of ICT solutions, persuasive interfaces for Personal Healthcare, game-based motor cognitive rehabilitation, einclusion and Sustainability.
Silvia is a co-founder of Animys and responsible for its International research and piloting Projects. for its International Project Manager and Co-founder of Animys.
Gernot Bahle
is the CTO of Animys. After graduatin computer science as his major subject and minors in medicine and psychology, from the University of Passau, Germany, he worked in software design at Advanced Cad, Regensburg, Germany. Clients included Airbus and Bombardier. In recent years he has been working on context and activity recognition and sensor fusion as well as learning and emergence complex models at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). Gernot co-develped Animys' IP.
Prof. Christian Haring
is Animys' Medical Director and Psychiatric Advisor. He is a Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist. Christian is the Medical Director of Psychiatry & psychotherapy State Hospital Hall in Tirol (tirol kliniken), former President of the OGPP (Austrian Society of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy) and Austrian Society for Suicide Prevention and Crisis Intervention. Furthermore, he is the head of BIN (Sucht.Hilfe Beratung Information Nachsorge) a well known and established center for addiction therapy and prevention in Tirol managing, counseling, and treating of more than 1000 patients per year. In the past years, he has participated in several research projects in mood disorders, suicide, and addiction.
Waclaw Lukwoicz
Animys' Business Director, holds a joint Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering and Economics from the Technical University of Karlsruhe, Germany, and an MBA Degree from the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. He brings with him a breadth of strategic commercial experience in tackling complex global business development challenges. He has a proven track record of growing and developing international markets across the globe. In addition to his role as the CEO for Siemens Nigeria, Waclaw headed the Siemens Energy business in Africa. Between 2010 and 2013 Waclaw was the CEO of the Healthcare Sector Middle East, successfully growing and developing the business in 14 countries and managing a partner network of over 40 Agents and Distributors as well as an extensive sales and service organization of over 600 employees. He has also been active on the advisory boards of emerging market governments. He is a member of the Board of Director of SIS Software GmbH since 2013 .
Say hello
info[at]animys.com