Founded in 2009 ilumivu has a track record of providing highly flexible and powerful web and mobile software systems to behavioral health researchers and clinical care organizations.
The ilumivu System is a robust, patient-centered, software platform designed to capture rich, multimodal behavioral data streams through user engagement. Our mobile and web applications integrate with third-party sensors to facilitate connected health research. The ilumivu System can be customized to suit the needs of your organization or a specific project.
Our mission is to empower both users and researchers with actionable information. Ilumivu was founded by two people from very different backgrounds who came together to create Software for Humanity. Katherine Houghton has a PhD in Psychology and a background in designing intervention programs for families of children with autism. Mark Tuomenoksa is an innovative software developer and system architect with a background in communications and health research.
In 2009 Katherine and Mark began talking about the data collection and reporting needs of families struggling with autism as Katherine was searching for ways to more effectively measure outcomes and track the process of change in families. Traditional psychology methods don’t allow for frequent enough measurement to provide an understanding of the dynamics of change – throughout the day, a month or a year of development.
Ilumivu’s first project was to create an online, parent-centered platform for families of children with autism to track daily changes in symptoms, behaviors and treatments. The platform allowed parents to share information with team members (teachers, nutritionists, therapists, etc.) and create dynamic charts and reports so they could see what treatments and therapies were correlated with which symptoms and behaviors.
Once the platform got out into the market, care organizations, schools and research groups started asking for their own systems. The ilumivu System grew into a single-source piece of software that can be quickly replicated and customized to support any project.
Through collaborating with clients ilumivu saw the need for people to be able to enter data from their mobile devices. In 2011 the native apps on Apple and Android were built to seamlessly integrate with the online platforms. Through this process mEMA – the mobile EMA apps – were born. Ilumivu continues to learn from our clients and develop the ilumivu system in response the their changing needs.
Hearing from our clients about their clinical or research work to support and better help those with challenging health or educational needs is what keeps us going.