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Real-world data on daily life with MS
Patent pending

MS doesn't wait for a clinic visit. AIMS turns each day into the dataset that does.

A daily symptom, biometric, medication, and environmental-conditions log for people living with MS — built to put every trigger and every symptom in one longitudinal record, including well-documented flare triggers like Uhthoff's phenomenon, instead of relying on a memory reconstructed at the next appointment.

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Mood Fatigue Pain Cognition Spasticity Vision Gait Sleep Activity Heart rate Body temp Temperature zone Medication

every signal lands in the same daily record, cross-referenced against the others — not tracked, or read, in isolation

The problem

Every trigger gets studied alone. MS symptoms don't behave that way.

Heat and cold are among the best-documented MS triggers — Uhthoff's phenomenon, the transient worsening of symptoms like fatigue, vision, gait, and cognition with temperature change, is well established in the literature. But temperature is rarely the only variable of a bad day. Sleep, activity, medication timing, and heart rate are factors too, and they're almost never captured in the same record as the symptom itself.

Patients are left to notice any of these patterns themselves, from memory, after the fact. Clinical teams get a retrospective summary at the next appointment — with no consistent, dated record connecting environmental exposure, activity, medication timing, and objective biometrics to symptom severity, all in the same place. That combined view, not any single trigger read in isolation, is what shows how symptoms actually respond and adapt over time — and it's what real-world evidence work needs and rarely has.

How AIMS captures it

One structured record per day, kept for as long as the person keeps logging.

01

Zone engine

Every day is classified cold / safe / hot against thresholds the patient tunes to their own sensitivity, then displayed with simple, intuitive color coding — one input, captured with the same daily discipline as everything else, ready to be read against it.

02

Structured daily check-in

Mood, fatigue, pain, cognition, spasticity, vision, gait, sleep, activity, and hydration — rated on a fixed scale, the same axes every day.

03

Passive biometrics

Resting heart rate, body temperature, walking steadiness, sleep duration, and activity level, read passively from Apple Health — so gait, sleep, and activity each carry a felt score and a measured one in the same record, not just one or the other.

04

Medication & DMT tracking

Disease-modifying therapy and symptomatic medications logged alongside symptoms, so adherence can be read against outcomes over time.

05

Radar composite score

A ten-axis radar chart turns each day's inputs into one comparable "wellness" shape — a fixed clinical layout, not a re-drawn scale, so days can be accurately compared.

06

Calendar & replay

A month/year heatmap of zone history, plus a replay view for scrubbing back through any stretch of days to see how a flare actually unfolded.

07

Automated pattern alerts

Zone shifts, biometric outliers, and multi-day symptom trends are cross-checked automatically and flagged when they move together — not a report the patient has to go looking for.

What the record looks like

Four screens. One connected record.

Real screens from the running app, shown with seeded demo data — not a live patient record.

AIMS Today view — zone, radar composite, and alerts

Zone, radar composite, and automated flags — one daily screen.

AIMS Month view — zone-tagged calendar

A month of zones at a glance — patterns visible without re-reading every day.

AIMS Year view — zone history across months

A year of zone history at a glance — long-run patterns a single month can't show.

AIMS Replay view — scrubbing back through a flare day by day

Scrub back through any stretch of days to see how a flare actually unfolded.

Care team reports

A record to leave behind, not a screen to scroll through.

Any logged range — a week, a month, a custom window, or everything since the last neurology visit — compiles into a plain-language summary: symptom averages, zone and temperature exposure, vitals, and events, built to be read in the few minutes before an appointment instead of scrolled through during one.

It leaves the app as an ordinary shareable file through the standard iOS share sheet — email, message, printed, whatever the care team already uses — and is labeled plainly for what it is: material for discussion, not a diagnosis.

Why it's useful beyond the app

Patient-generated data, structured the way research needs it.

Symptoms read against everything else moving that day. Every self-report sits next to that day's temperature zone, activity, sleep, and biometrics — not just a date — so any one trigger, temperature included, can be weighed against the others instead of in isolation.

Felt severity next to measured signal. Gait, sleep, and activity are each logged two ways — a patient-reported score and a passive Apple Health reading — so a symptom axis isn't just what someone recalls feeling, it's checked against what was actually measured.

DMT adherence alongside outcomes. Medication timing lives in the same record as symptoms and biometrics, so adherence patterns and their downstream effects are readable in one place rather than reconstructed from pharmacy records and memory.

A consistent instrument, kept daily. The same fixed axes and zone thresholds apply on day one and day one thousand — the kind of unbroken, comparably-structured single-patient dataset that's rare in real-world MS data and valuable however it's read.

Useful at any level of engagement. Closing a check-in takes the same one tap as answering it, and any entry can be built out with more info later. Biometric and environmental data keep logging automatically either way, so the record doesn't depend on how much a person has left to give it that day.

Where this stands today

AIMS is an early-stage, independently built project — one person's daily record of living with MS, not yet a company or a clinical product. There's no trial data, regulatory clearance, or existing pharma partnership to point to. What's here is a working iOS app, a data model built carefully enough to be worth a conversation, and IP protection already underway: a U.S. non-provisional patent application is pending, with a corresponding international application filed.

Let's talk about what this data could be worth to your work.

Open to conversations about research collaboration, real-world data partnerships, or simply a walkthrough of how AIMS is built.

erinlea_mcgowan-moniz@harvard.edu
AIMS built by Erinlea McGowan-Moniz