PicnicHealth

PicnicHealth is a pioneering health technology company dedicated to simplifying healthcare for both patients and researchers. At its core, the platform creates a 'Unified Patient Record' by gathering all of a patient's medical documents—from doctor's notes and lab results to complex imaging like MRIs and CT scans—from any hospital or clinic. Powered by its proprietary AI, including a state-of-the-art large language model called LLMD, PicnicHealth transforms this unstructured data into a structured, easy-to-navigate digital health timeline. This provides patients with unprecedented clarity and control over their health journey, while offering life sciences organizations a powerful, efficient, and ethical way to conduct observational research and gather real-world evidence.

How to use PicnicHealth

The process for patients to get started with PicnicHealth is designed to be simple and secure:

1. Sign Up: Create an account on the PicnicHealth website. You can sign up for yourself or for a family member if you are a legally authorized caregiver.
2. Provide Authorization: You'll be asked to provide basic information and sign a secure, digital authorization form (HIPAA-compliant) that gives PicnicHealth permission to collect your medical records on your behalf.
3. List Your Providers: Tell PicnicHealth about all the doctors, hospitals, clinics, and labs where you've received care. The platform has access to a network of over 80,000 facilities and can also use traditional phone, fax, and mail outreach for any office.
4. Automatic Record Collection: PicnicHealth's team and technology handle the entire process of requesting and collecting your complete medical history, including written records and imaging files.
5. Access Your Unified Record: Once collected and digitized, your records are organized into a single, chronological timeline in your secure PicnicHealth account. You can access it anytime to view, search, and understand your health history.
6. Utilize AI Tools: Use the Smart Health Assistant to search for specific conditions, treatments, or lab results within your records. The AI provides smart highlights and helps you make sense of complex medical information.
7. Share Securely: You can easily and securely share your complete medical history with new doctors, specialists, or family members, ensuring continuity of care.
8. Participate in Research (Optional): You may be eligible to join a research study, which gives you free access to the PicnicHealth membership and allows you to contribute to medical advancements.

Core Features of PicnicHealth

• Unified Patient Record: Consolidates all medical records from disparate sources into a single, organized, and longitudinal view of a patient's health.
• PicnicAI & LLMD: Advanced AI and a proprietary medical large language model that reads, structures, and extracts key clinical concepts from unstructured medical text with superhuman accuracy.
• Smart Health Assistant: An AI-powered tool for patients that enables intuitive search of their records, provides smart highlights of important information, and organizes data into a clear dashboard and timeline.
• Comprehensive Record Retrieval: A hybrid approach combining electronic network access to over 80,000 facilities with direct facility outreach (phone, fax, mail) to ensure complete data collection.
• Imaging and Lab Data Integration: Collects and provides access to medical imaging files (MRIs, X-Rays, CT Scans, etc.) and structured lab results.
• Virtual Clinic & Connected Care: Offers virtual visits with primary care providers who can review your unified record, identify care gaps, and provide a personalized action plan.
• Research Platform for Life Sciences: A suite of tools for sponsors, including a Sponsor Dashboard for real-time study tracking, enabling efficient non-interventional studies, long-term follow-up (LTFU), and patient registries.
• Patient-Reported Outcomes (PROs): Capabilities to capture long-term patient-reported outcomes directly from participants for a more holistic view.
• Data Security and Privacy: Employs robust encryption and strict protocols to protect patient data, ensuring it is never sold and is only shared with explicit patient consent.

Use Cases for PicnicHealth

For Patients:

• Chronic Disease Management: Individuals with long-term conditions like cancer, autoimmune disorders, or rare diseases can track their entire health journey, treatments, and outcomes.
• Preparing for Appointments: Easily provide a new specialist with a complete medical history, avoiding repetitive tests and ensuring they have the full context of your health.
• Caregiving: Manage the health records of a child or elderly parent, coordinating care between multiple providers.
• Seeking Second Opinions: Share a comprehensive, organized record with another doctor to get an informed second opinion.

For Life Sciences and Researchers:

• Observational Research: Conduct studies that are 30-50% cheaper than traditional site-based models, with faster startup times and 98% patient retention.
• Real-World Data (RWD) Collection: Generate high-quality, fit-for-purpose real-world evidence by capturing complete patient journeys, including data from outside traditional clinical settings.
• Patient Registries: Rapidly develop drug-specific or disease-specific registries (e.g., for early breast cancer, rare diseases) by combining EMR data, claims, and patient-reported information.
• Long-Term Follow-Up (LTFU) Studies: Simplify and improve the efficiency of required LTFU studies for new therapies like CAR-T, reducing patient burden and loss to follow-up.

Advantages of PicnicHealth

PicnicHealth offers a dual advantage. For patients, it transforms a fragmented and confusing healthcare experience into one of clarity, control, and empowerment. Having a single source of truth for one's medical history simplifies care navigation and facilitates better health decisions. For the life sciences industry, it revolutionizes observational research. The technology-driven, direct-to-patient model overcomes the limitations of traditional methods, such as incomplete data and high costs. By leveraging AI to create structured, research-grade data from real-world records, PicnicHealth enables researchers to answer more complex questions, accelerate medical discovery, and ultimately bring new treatments to patients faster.

Pricing and Plans

PicnicHealth offers clear, value-based pricing options for patients:

• PicnicHealth Membership: Priced at $499 per year (billed annually). This plan includes automatic and continuous record collection and updates, the Smart Health Assistant, a health dashboard, and lifetime access to all collected records. This membership is provided for free ($0/year) for patients who are eligible for and choose to participate in a PicnicHealth research study.
• Connected Care Visit: A pay-per-visit option at $149 per visit. This is a 30-minute virtual video call with a PicnicHealth primary care provider to review your unified records, identify care gaps, and create a personalized action plan. The cost may be lower when using insurance, and payments can be made with HSA/FSA funds.