EQUAL CARE wants to make sex - and gender-specific medicine the norm to enhance the outcome for millions of patients.
We centralize essential data, enabling informed decisions that improve patient care for men and women.
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Find EQUAL CARE certified Medication, Diagnostics, Prevention, Health Apps and Health AI with Sex- and Gender-Balanced Clinical Data
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Learn more about how personalized, gender-responsive medicine leads to better outcomes for all, emphasizing the role of targeted research and tailored treatments in addressing unique patient needs.
The Why
The EQUAL CARE Gap
The healthcare landscape shows notable physiological and behavioral gaps between male and female patients, leading to significant disparities in treatment efficacy and outcomes.
Fields of Medicine with High Impact of differences:
- Neurology
- Cardiology
- Oncology
- Orthopedics
- Gastroenterology
80%
80% of patients could benefit from sex- and gender-specific approaches in disease prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. By focusing on sex and gender-specific medicine, we aim to close this gap for faster and more precise healthcare solutions.
Major medical differences between male and female patients:
- Metabolism
- Muscle-fat ratio
- Cardiovascular system
- Digestive system
- Immune system
- Hormones
- Risk taking
- Social roles
Despite scientific evidence supporting gender-specific medicine, gaps in awareness and application remain widespread. Our mission is to bring this knowledge to the forefront, bridging these disparities and ensuring gender-inclusive healthcare for all.
The How
We envision a future where healthcare inherently respects sex- and gender-specific needs, offering customized treatments that provide equitable outcomes.
Certification Criteria
Certification criteria are grounded in scientific research and expert insights in sex- and gender-specific medicine, ensuring standards that support accurate diagnosis, effective treatment, and optimized patient outcomes.
The EQUAL CARE certification criteria focus on ensuring gender-specific considerations in healthcare interventions. Key criteria include:
- Clinical Trials: Ensuring equal participation of men and women in studies.
- Efficacy: Assessing efficacy separately for men and women.
- Dosage: Addressing gender differences in recommended dosages.
- Side Effects: Identifying gender-specific side effects.
Certification Process
Our certification process starts with application or identification, followed by rigorous clinical evaluation and quality assurance. Once approved, the certification is granted and published. Continuous monitoring ensures ongoing compliance and effectiveness.
Certification Process: Step-by-Step
- Application or Identification
- Clinical Evaluation
- Quality Assurance
- Certification Granted
- Continuous Monitoring
This structured approach ensures interventions are reliable, transparent, and continually upheld to the highest standards.
Evaluation
Evaluation is based on clinical studies validating the intervention for market entry, with ongoing monitoring
For the evaluation process, EQUAL CARE ensures the following:
- Clinical Study Review: Assessing clinical studies for gender-specific data inclusion.
- Representation Gap Ongoing checks for gender-related biases in data.
- Data Integrity: Ensuring transparency throughout the development and market approval stages.
- Post-Market Monitoring: Continuous evaluation of real-world data to uphold gender equity in outcomes.
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The Benefits
Why You Should Get Certified with EQUAL CARE
Achieve Market Differentiation
Stand out as a leader in precision medicine. EQUAL CARE certification positions your product as cutting-edge, innovative, and patient-centric.
Drive Innovation
Integrate precision medicine insights into your offerings to enhance efficacy, improve outcomes, and shape the future of personalized healthcare.
Go Beyond Regulatory Standards
Exceed regulatory expectations with gender-specific insights that optimize clinical studies and regulatory pathways. Achieve greater ROI and elevate brand visibility.
Access Global Data for Precision Development
Maximize accessibility to product data. The EQUAL CARE Registry allows a central and structured access to your sex- and gender-specific clinical data for doctors, patients, search engines and algorithms.
Improve Patient Outcomes
Make better-informed decisions with gender-specific insights. Enhance treatment effectiveness, minimize adverse effects, and improve patient satisfaction.
Stay Ahead with Cutting-Edge Research
Stay updated with the latest gender-specific medical advancements. Keep your practice or products aligned with the forefront of healthcare innovation.
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Watch this video to learn more about our commitment to a healthcare system that embraces gender-specific treatment as the norm. At EQUAL CARE, we work tirelessly to educate, certify, and advocate for gender-inclusive health care that respects the unique needs of every individual.
The Founders
Together we bring a unique blend of expertise in healthcare, technology, and gender-specific research. We lead EQUAL CARE with a commitment to bridging the gap in healthcare, promoting personalized, gender-inclusive care solutions.
Thao Nguyen
Founder and CEO
"I dream of a world where we all work together so each person gets healthcare that is just right for them. This does not just make patients healthier; it also helps their families, their work and our society as a whole."
Dr. med. Simone Braun
Co-Founder
"My vision is to live in a world with a human-centered medical care. In a transparent, evidence-based and empowering healthcare system, patients get the best treatment according to their sex, gender and other individual needs."
How we serve
Provide Transparency on Diagnostics and Treatments as Medication, Digital and AI Applications
Navigating gender-specific data and its implications for treatments can be challenging for both patients and healthcare providers. To promote transparency and trust, EQUAL CARE certifies and labels diagnostics and treatments that integrate a gender-specific approach in their development and patient applications. Our certification establishes a clear and reliable standard, providing patients, doctors, and other healthcare stakeholders with a shared language for communication and a unified foundation for collaboration. Together, we aim to advance healthcare equity and improve outcomes for everyone.
EQUAL CARE Criteria for Medication
At EQUAL CARE, our certification process evaluates medications based on rigorous criteria to ensure gender-specific considerations are embedded in their development and application. Here's how we assess medications:
Study Representation:
- Criteria: Sufficient gender representation in foundational research, reflecting the prevalence of genders in the population.
- Requirement: Companies must demonstrate balanced participation of men and women in clinical trials, allowing a deviation of up to 25 percentage points to account for resource and time constraints. This standard will become stricter in the future to ensure even greater precision.
Efficacy / Accuracy:
- Criteria: Gender-segregated efficacy and accuracy data.
- Requirement: Companies must provide evidence of how their medication performs separately for men and women, supported by results from clinical trials and other efficacy or accuracy studies.
Posology (Dosage):
- Criteria: Gender-specific considerations in dosage recommendations.
- Requirement: Companies must present gender-segregated data on posology, including clinical trial evidence of dosage variations between men and women.
Possible Side Effects:
- Criteria: Availability of gender-segregated data on side effects.
- Requirement: Companies must document the types of studies used for market entry approval, detailing methodologies such as clinical trials or observational studies that provide insight into gender-specific safety profiles.
Regulatory Compliance:
- Criteria: Study design and evidence level used for market entry approval.
- Requirement: Companies must specify the research methodologies and evidence levels that underpin market approval for their medication, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.
Level of Evidence:
- Criteria: Appropriateness of evidence for certification and market entry.
- Requirement: Companies must provide robust evidence supporting the medication's safety, efficacy, and compliance with certification criteria.
EQUAL CARE Criteria for Diagnostics
EQUAL CARE Criteria for Digitally Supported Treatments (Patient Apps)
EQUAL CARE Criteria for AI Supported Treatments and Diagnostics
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