In this particular project, we started with 200 patients and we're going to grow this to 400. There's a first control group. The first group of 200 patients had the first version of the technology. There's going to be a third group that is going to get the new and improved version of the technology.
What the patients did is sign up via the Internet on a PC to a personal health record application. In conjunction with their physician, they set certain goals for themselves and they set certain parameters they wanted to monitor. This would be true for mental illness, for somebody who's a diabetic, or someone who has congestive heart failure. It would be true for any patient who has a chronic disease that has to be tracked over time. We created a version of that application to make the user interface more compatible with use on a smart phone. You can't do on a smart phone exactly what you can do on a PC.
Reminders are sent to the patient. If in his care plan he was supposed to exercise, he was supposed to do certain things, those reminders are pushed to the patient, and then the patient will do the assigned task. That information will flow from the smart phone to the personal health record and is stored somewhere.
What we're doing, basically, is creating an interaction between the patient and the physician, but you're also creating a sense where the patient is taking charge of his chronic disease. If we're going to be successful in doing that today, we have to do it on technology that people are carrying with them. If you're creating a third or fourth piece of technology that you're going to have to carry with you, people won't adopt the technology.
A lot of our thinking is we have to push our applications to smart phones, to tablets, because more and more doctors are using tablets. The idea is to make it accessible to individuals.