Updates and News
2022-08 Ethics approval for clinical trial
Vanda Health successfully applies to obtain an ethical code to be able to start clinical trial as soon as the platform is ready for its early stage user groups. Here's the abstract:
Vanda — A novel assistive technology platform for psychology experts using privacy-safe personalized data science
At the core of every treatment is to observe how the client feels. The observation is a continuous process that is driven by the psychology expert during a series of sessions. The experts commonly use different techniques such as note taking or memorization. The more techniques they use to capture an observation, the more they risk losing attention and contact with the client. There is a gap for techniques that avoid any form of distraction for the experts. Vanda offers a privacy-first data-oriented technology platform to psychology experts. Vanda provides the platform to enable the experts to efficiently reduce time on manual recurrent treatment routines, analyze and drive the client’s treatment state through the platform; and highly increase engagement with their clients during each treatment session.
2022-07 MVP development still goes on
We're trying our best to set the first bricks in a proper way. We actually have a working app but you know it does not look that nice and there're some uncut corners. We're working on them.
2022-06 Vanda Health MVP pitch is out 📺
Our initial MVP pitch is ready.
2022-05 Product MVP starts development
With a small team including our own CTO, we start to develop ☕ + an initial version of our designed product.
2022-04 Vanda Health is incorporated
Vanda Health Inc. is registered in Canada. 🎉
2022-03 Patent Registration of Vanda Health
We decided to register a patent for Vanda Health at US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to protect the ideas that are considered illectual property owned by Vanda Health. Vanda Health patent is now registered as US 63/301.098 at USPTO.
2022-02 Plain Mind is now Vanda Health
We went on a journey to select a name for our brand and company. We renamed Plain Mind ➡️ Vanda Health. And, we have a brand new logo.
2021-11 System Design and Architecture
Looking at the technology side, we went through a thought process to sketch initial designs for the system that flows the data and how the system runs. We cannot share much as it is confidential but here's a preview.
2021-10 Start "Value Proposition" writing
We started to write our Value Proposition document; a long running document that will stay with us for a long time and one that we want to make sure to be as accurate as possible to help us drive the business to success.
2021-08 Short survey of psychology domain
We learnt in our validation session with experts that we need to do a short survey on the methods that are dominant in the treatment practices. We tried to build an understanding of how different methods work such that we could target our efforts to the category that is most relevant.
2021-07 Interview with experts for validation
In a closed group of psychology experts, we prepared a very rough and simple presentation to explain the idea. An exciting and nervous session to validate what such technology could bring to the table of psychology experts in their client treatment.
2021-06 Formulation of Idea
As a first step, we tried to write a short simple document (one-pager) to explain our idea. The document is intended to provide a high-level picture what value our idea brings. We intend to take this to a small expert group to collect what they think.
2021-05 Paperwork for CIC
We aim to establish the business and build the start-up in Canada. We spent some good time in preparing a series of documents, certificates, and forms to be able to properly present them to CIC in Canada.
2021-04 Kick off SUV program
Plain Mind officially starts with a small team of 3 members and kicks off a series of collaboration with our MTA advisor, Jon Olsen, to build up the business and start-up in Canada.
2020-12 Hello MTA 👋
Plain Mind applies to SUV program under supervision of Manitoba Technology Accelerator.
2020-10 Plain Mind is born 👶
As many startups, the idea was born during chats and casual conversations.