She, fellow pharmacist Slava Malen, and husband and social worker Jacques Nir, based in Fair Lawn, developed a mobile app to legitimize medical cannabis as something insurance companies saw as worth covering, and something that would improve the medical cannabis experience for patients and doctors.
It started from Richer and her team collecting data from about 350 studies, which demonstrated that not all available strains treat symptoms and illnesses in the same ways. The cannabinoids and terpenes that make one strain ineffective at treating irritable bowel syndrome might make it highly effective at treating symptoms associated with cancer. While the composition of another strain might make it a useful remedy for anxiety, it could be the wrong choice for someone looking to treat Tourette’s syndrome. With this data, they created what they dubbed the canna-meter within their app MyCureAll, which is meant to provide recommendations for treatment based on ailment.
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MyCureAll serves four types of users: patients, physicians, insurance companies and dispensaries.
Patients enter their experience in the app to collect their own data and share it with their doctor, insurance company, and dispensary if they so choose. Through an interactive portion of the app called Puff, they provide information about the cannabis they’re consuming (strain, CBD/THC ratio, terpenes, etc.) and compare how they feel at the time of consumption to how they feel 20 minutes later. As the patient uses it, the app will provide better cannabis recommendations; and as more patients use Puff, their reports will be incorporated into the canna-meter. Their feedback helps physicians and dispensaries better understand what to recommend to others with similar ailments, and help insurance companies understand what to cover.