Methodology · Healthcare Journey Research

The 6am injection. The caregiver workaround. The end-of-shift debrief. Healthcare captured where it actually happens.

Healthcare research in Indeemo captures real life across the system: patients living with conditions, caregivers managing care, clinicians delivering it. The daily routine, the friction, the moments that matter to outcomes. Compliance-grade security. Informed consent at onboarding. EU and US data residency.

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Why Healthcare Research In Indeemo

Three things healthcare research in Indeemo gives you that a clinic interview can't

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Real life as it actually happens

The 6am injection in their own bathroom. The pill cabinet at the start of the week. The clinician between consults. The caregiver helping with the regimen. The lived experience between appointments and shifts, captured as it happens.
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Patients, caregivers, and clinicians

Care is delivered by a network: the patient, the partner or parent, the paid carer, the clinician. Indeemo captures the full system: the patient's experience, the caregiver's workload, the clinician's practice, and the workarounds invented along the way to make care actually liveable.

Compliance-grade by default

ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR-aligned, HIPAA-aware workflows. EU and US data residency. Informed consent at participant onboarding. Identity masking and facial blurring to protect participant privacy. Built for compliance, not retrofitted to it.
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How It Works In Indeemo

A healthcare research study, end to end

Four stages, one platform: from plan to deliver.
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Plan
Targeted screening on diagnosis, treatment phase, or professional role. Recruit patients through clinical partners or advocacy networks, HCPs through professional panels, or use your own network. Consent flows built for healthcare research from day one. Then design tasks that fit a life with a condition or a working shift: daily routines, trigger-based capture (medication time, flare-up, end of consult), caregiver or peer perspective. Schedule sensitively, with respect for limited bandwidth.
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Capture
At home, in clinic, or after shift, on their phone, in their own time. A 30-second selfie video of the morning routine or the end-of-day debrief. A photo of the medication chart on the fridge or the ward whiteboard. A text response about side-effects or workflow friction. Captured the way participants can actually share: on a phone, in spare moments.
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Analyse
Adherence, side-effects, workflow friction, and the moments behind them. AI transcription and translation across 30+ languages. Theme detection across patient or HCP cohorts. OCR on prescription packs, medication labels, and clinical documents. Compare patterns across treatment groups or professional roles.
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Deliver
Evidence for clinical, brand, access, and medical affairs teams. Compliance-cleared highlight reels. Anonymised patient and HCP archetypes. Caregiver perspectives. Stakeholder access tightly governed. The patient or clinician voice in the room with the medical team, the marketing team, and the payer.
Where Indeemo Fits

How Indeemo fits healthcare journey research

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Dimension
Common approach
What Indeemo adds
Setting
Often a scheduled interview or focus group, where the participant recalls their experience from memory.
In their real environment, in the actual moment: the morning routine at 6am, the medication moment as it happens, the consult or shift as it unfolds.
Cadence
Often a single appointment, or a survey at the next visit, asking how things have been since.
Daily and trigger-based capture across the treatment or working arc, on their phone, with informed consent captured once at onboarding.
Method
A timeline assembled from recall at the appointment.
The journey as it actually unfolds: selfie videos at the moment of care, photos of pill charts and clinical workflows, text responses on side-effects or friction, ratings on energy and mood.
Compliance
Handled separately from the research tooling, with identifying data managed across different workflows.
Compliance-grade by default: ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR, with EU/US data residency and HIPAA-aware workflows.
Inside The Study

What a researcher actually configures

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Sample task brief

A daily medication selfie video over 14 days. "When you take your morning medication, open the camera and talk us through it. What you take, in what order, what you do if you forget, how you feel about it."
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Sample HCP task

A short reflection task captured as selfie video after a complex consult or at end of shift. "When something stands out today, take 60 seconds to share what happened: what helped, what got in the way, what you'd want to see done differently next time."

Sample analysis output

A cross-cohort adherence pattern. "4 of 18 patients quietly skipped the evening dose >2x per week. This pattern surfaced only in the diary capture. Theme: routine collision with family dinner. Implication for adherence packaging."

"It empowers the patient to be a part of their care. They feel so out of control when you have renal failure. Everyone's telling you what to do and how to do it, and it's just so hard. This app actually gives them something they can do to be part of their care. That makes a difference in their lives."

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Nancy Foss, RN, Senior US Clinical Care Specialist
 Xeltis
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Who Runs Healthcare Research In Indeemo

Built for healthcare teams who need real-world evidence

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Insights & Research

Move beyond the clinic interview. Capture the lived experience of patients, caregivers, and clinicians, in compliance-grade conditions.

For insights teams

Brand & Marketing

Patient and HCP stories that brand and access teams can use, ethically. Real voices, fully consented, ready for the room.

For brand teams

Product & Innovation

See where the device, the pack, the regimen, or the workflow breaks down in real life. Design for the kitchen at 6am or the ward at 3am, where care is actually delivered.

For product teams
Related Methodologies

Adjacent methods researchers run alongside patient journey research

Methodology · Diary Studies
Days, weeks, months of in-the-moment capture: ideal for chronic condition and adherence research.
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Methodology · Mobile Ethnography
In-context capture in their kitchens, on their commutes, at the moments between clinic appointments.
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Methodology · In-Home Product Testing
See your device, app, or therapy where it actually lives: in real homes, across real markets.
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Healthcare Research, answered

How long should a healthcare research study run?
It depends on the question. Some studies field quickly to capture a moment in care; others run across weeks or months to track a treatment arc or working pattern. The platform paces to the study and respects participant bandwidth.
How many participants do I need?
For depth qualitative work in a single cohort, 10 to 20 participants is typical (plus caregivers or HCPs where relevant). Multi-market or multi-cohort studies (e.g. early vs. late stage, primary care vs. specialist) scale from there to whatever the study needs, balancing depth per cohort with breadth across cohorts.
How do you protect participant privacy?
Indeemo supports identity masking and facial blurring. When the researcher enables them, content is masked as it comes into the platform, so researchers and stakeholders only ever see the masked version. Combined with informed consent at onboarding and compliance-grade data handling, privacy is part of the platform from the start.
Is Indeemo compliant for pharmaceutical research?
Yes. ISO 27001 and SOC 2 certified, GDPR-aligned, HIPAA-aware workflows. EU and US data residency options. See Trust & Security for details.
Can caregivers and HCPs participate alongside patients?
Yes. Caregivers and healthcare professionals can be recruited as participants in the same study or in linked cohorts, each with their own consent flow and tasks. The full system of care, captured together.
How do you handle patient consent?
Participants provide informed consent at onboarding for the study. For studies that require it, the researcher can enable identity masking and facial blurring to protect participant privacy. Participants can withdraw at any point.
Can I run patient research across multiple markets and languages?
Yes. Capture in 30+ languages, with AI transcription and translation. Run all markets in parallel during the same fielding window, with full consent and data residency compliance.
What kind of analysis output do I get?
Researchers in Indeemo tag entries, track themes across cohorts, work with AI-detected patterns, and build stakeholder-ready highlight reels: anonymised patient archetypes and compliance-cleared exports for medical, brand, and access teams.

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