And suddenly everything is different. It's not the home office that has disrupted the daily routine of the Thryve team during the Corona crisis, but a new project. Thryve is behind the official Corona app of the Robert Koch Institute - and suddenly also at the center of the shift toward digital health.
In less than four weeks, the team around Friedrich Lämmel, Paul Burgrave and John Trimpop has set up a project that the whole of Germany is looking at: the Corona data donation. With the official app of the Robert Koch Institute, citizens ask the Robert Koch Institute Data available that can help better understand the spread of COVID-19.
Thryve provides the technology that allows users to share their health-related data with providers, digital health startups and insurance companies across Europe, making individual health status easily transparent. The startup enables easy data transfer from more than 300 wearables and connected medical devices from 40 manufacturers and makes them accessible to the healthcare industry via a central connection.
In the early days of the Corona crisis, the company realized they could also help governments. "Back in January, we had developed an algorithm that detects fever in wearable data", explains Friedrich Lämmel, founder and CEO of Thryve. "Since fevers are one of the symptoms of COVID-19, we realized we could help with this technology. We wanted to reduce the number of unreported cases and build a digital fever thermometer for the whole country."
Thryve approached the Robert Koch Institute with this idea - the epidemiologists were enthusiastic about the idea and committed themselves to the project. In less than four weeks, the Corona data donation was created based on Thryve's technology. After the first week, more than 500,000 citizens joined in and are continuously providing valuable data to help fight the pandemic.
“Digital health has become mainstream due to the pandemic", says Lambs. “This is demonstrated not only by our Corona app, but also by the many other solutions that are currently growing strongly. Healthcare is going digital. Insurers, providers, pharma - no matter who we're talking to, it affects everyone. And we're proud that with our plug-and-play data access, we're making a decisive contribution to better healthcare.“