About us
Solving some of the world's most challenging health and wellness issues require a communal effort and must consider the vantage points of a variety of doctors, specialists, researchers, holistic health practitioners and activist citizens.
LIBRA is a social enterprise that is dedicated to eradicating healthcare disparities, improving global wellness outcomes and addressing chronic disease.
Our ethos revolves around social responsibility and ensuring that Earth and its inhabitants can flourish and evolve into something better.
Central to this conversation is an educational platform that speaks to the root causes of chronic disease and the lifestyle changes that we can all take to increase longevity.
The LIBRA Community provides a safe space for us to work together to resolve these problems and take the necessary steps to achieve a healthy existence.
How we started
LIBRA HEALTH SYSTEMS was created by Kevin Helton and Jane Hutchison in response to Jane's own diagnosis with cancer.
After a decade of supporting cancer patients through our London based wellness centre, we were compelled to extend our to include a Virtual Health Assistant designed to help with prevention, early diagnosis and sustainable intervention of chronic disease .
The LIBRA project was further inspired by a workshop at the US Embassy in London.
The questions the workshop delved into were simple—
Are we leaving some demographics behind by using biased datasets?
Are we creating solutions that are ineffective for certain ethnicities and marginalised groups?
Can we all take small but radical steps to fix these problems and instigate positive social change?
It's time to stop waiting for these problems to fix themselves and start taking the steps necessary to improve health outcomes for all mankind
How it works
Doctors, researchers, specialists and other health and wellness practitioners prompt research participants with targeted health surveys to help understand chronic conditions that are being experienced or aiming to be prevented.
The answers that are given are blended together to offer insight into why, how and under what circumstances these conditions manifest and what if any steps can be taken to prevent or limit their occurrence.
The data and other feedback provided by all participants in the survey are normalized and anonymized.
The data is then fed into advanced machine learning algorithms to uncover condition patterns, correlations and other statistically relevant insights to provide a robust tool for assisting doctors with early diagnosis, non-invasive testing and clinical research.
The community is encouraged to take an active role in these discussions and push doctors into new directions of study.
Communal Intelligence
To achieve our greatest potential we must all come together to drive systemic change.
This communal spirit is the necessary ingredient that is currently missing from our global health systems.
We the people, must participate in and instigate research into the various health conditions that affect our society.
We must blend individual feedback to create a communal intelligence that will unlock insights that are simply not possible from a single piece of research.
Together we can create the world's most robust database for sustainably diagnosing, treating and preventing chronic disease by learning more about underlying causes and triggers.
How you can participate
This is a journey that can only succeed with participation from global citizens and patient activists. We see proactive individuals, researchers and patient advocacy groups as a natural extension of our family and we invite you to join the movement.
The movement is just starting If you share our vision and enjoy early-stage building be among the first people to join our team of ambassadors contact us