When I first connected with Enable Injections, I had no idea companies and technology like them even existed - but I visited their facility, sat with their leadership team, and shared my patient perspective for this SAP feature for Forbes.com - and I was impressed with how they are thinking, and what they are building, every step of the way.
As a patient, the infusion experience can be quite enjoyable, to be honest (as I discuss in these medication videos) - so what a technology like this would do for patients is just free up constraints of time, appointments, and hours committed to a chair.
Update: This campaign was awarded 8 Telly Awards in 2020
"It’s great to see something like this come to life and come to market,” said Starshak. “As a chronic illness patient, I think it’s important for us to be able to control what we can and make things easy when we can, because we’re never going to be able to control all of it.” [read full piece/video on Forbes.com]
Amber Tresca of About IBD is a hero to the IBD community. She is an expert at bringing critical information to patients in a way that is easy to understand, and also accurate and reliable. Her podcast, also called About IBD, brings an additional dimension to the conversation of patient experience, by interviewing those living with diseases such as Crohn's and Colitis.
Thanks to Amber for having me as a guest, where I discuss being active with Ulcerative Colitis, behind the scenes at The Great Bowel Movement, and why getting every single patient to find their voice is important and powerful.
Listen on her site, aboutibd.com.
Find me on other About IBD Podcast Episodes:
But what really struck Starshak was that Stewart asked questions about her ulcerative colitis. “His attitude was that he wanted to learn more,” Starshak recalls. “He wanted to know what it was like for me and what the hard parts were. He didn’t think it was gross, and he wasn’t feeling sorry for me.”
Andrea and Megan bonded over the fact that their youths had been filled with tests, different medications, hospitalizations, and more embarrassing conversations than they could count. "You have a choice to let the illness take over or do something about it, and we both wanted to do something about it," they tell WomensHealthMag.com. "We saw that in each other."