CF Hero app helps patients with motivation for the treatment of cystic fibrosis

CF Hero - mobilní aplikace pomáhající zlepšit život lidem s cystickou fibrózou - obrazek "Kyslika"
CF Hero - mobilní aplikace pomáhající zlepšit život lidem s cystickou fibrózou - obrazek "Kyslika"
Mobilní aplikace CF Hero - fotografie mladé pacientky a matky při inhalaci s CF Hero aplikací

CF Hero app helps with motivation to the treatment of cystic fibrosis

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CF Hero - mobilní aplikace pomáhající zlepšit život lidem s cystickou fibrózou- obrázek edukační komiksy "Čistička"
CF Hero - mobilní aplikace pomáhající zlepšit život lidem s cystickou fibrózou- obrázek sekce "Komiks store"

How do we help with motivation?

The CF Hero app helps entertain treatment and daily long inhalations and respiratory rehabilitation in a fun way.

Thanks to the game format, the CF Hero application encourages you to follow the inhalation plan and surpass your previous results.

The application leads to the correct breathing technique during inhalation and respiratory rehabilitation.

In the form of fun and educational comics, the CF Hero app breaks down some taboos of everyday life with CF.

CF Hero uses a playful design so that teenagers are more willing to follow the prescribed therapy and, most importantly, know why they are actually doing it.

The application helps to transfer the responsibility for treatment to the patient himself.

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Mobilní aplikace CF Hero - fotografie chlapce a otce při inhalaci s CF Hero aplikací

Doctors and parents can get a better overview about the patient's treatment thanks to CF Hero app

Physiotherapists and physicians have the opportunity to help patients set up the right breathing pattern that will accompany them during inhalation and respiratory rehabilitation with the application.

Users of the application can share their results with their doctor or physiotherapist by looking at the diary, which records the performed inhalations and respiratory rehabilitations with the application, the rewards obtained and together achieve a better result.

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CF Hero was co-created by healthcare experts and patients

CF Hero - mobilní aplikace pomáhající zlepšit život lidem s cystickou fibrózou - obrazek "Kyslika"

Physicians, physiotherapists and psychologists from CF centers participated in the mechanics of the CF Hero application.
We have also worked with specialists for building habits.

In various phases of the project, we tested the app concepts and subsequently the application with selected CF patients and tried to incorporate their feedback into the current version of CF Hero.

What do experts say about the CF Hero mobile app?

What do experts say about the CF Hero mobile app?

Why are we doing this?

We know from our own experience how difficult it is to follow the daily routine of CF patients. Although the course is often unpredictable, patients themselves can positively influence the course by adhering to treatment and lifestyle. The goal of our CF Hero application is to make the long inhalations and respiratory rehabilitations that patients have to undergo every day more efficient and effective.

Our team

Father of a child with CF/ Co-founder

Patient / Co-founder

IT lead / Co-founder

Mother of a child with CF / Communication

Director of CF Hero z.ú. - Fundraising

Product manager

IT/developer

UX designer

How to get CF Hero to your patients?
How will it work?

If you want CF Hero app for patients in your country, we can go through the following steps together to establish cooperation.

1.

Suggest a date for your telephone / video meeting with the CF Hero team.

2.

We will send you a questionnaire so that we can best prepare for our meeting.

3.

We will contact you by phone / video and discuss how to get CF Hero to your patients.

Choose a date
of meeting with
CF Hero

You can help spread CF Hero app among your patients in your organization. Just fill out the form and we’ll discuss
how everything will go. We will probably send you a questionnaire so that we can better prepare. Thank you and we look forward to working with you, CF Hero.

Contact us

Contact us

Documents and presentations

e-Poster

the document provides a detailed overview of the CF Hero application (for whom the application is intended, how it helps, results and references)

OnePager

a one-page document that provides summary information about the CF Hero project and the application

uživatelů aplikace využívá funkci personalizovaného dechového vzoru

In which countries does CF Hero operate?

We currently operate in Europe, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. We continue to work to expand CF Hero to other parts of the world.

At the beginning of 2022, the CF Hero application will be released in Poland and Ukraine.

Our partners

Marek

“Our daughter was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis right after she was born. I was thinking over for a long time how to help the community affected by this disease. An idea was born and a few months later I founded a project with Honza and the Czech Cystic Fibrosis Club, which we are pushing forward. Personally, I focus mainly on the conceptual development of the app, negotiations with project partners and making sure that everything works well in the team. ”

Honza

“I have lived with CF for more than 40 years and I try to share my experience with other patients. I want to help optimize treatment and motivate CF patients. CF Hero app combines all these efforts, since the fall of 2016 I have been working with Marek and other great people in the team to improve the CF Hero application. My motto is “Keep inhaling and rehab until you feel well.” (It may often take as much as 4 hours a day). Only an active and well-informed patient can fight CF successfully. My role is to spread know-how regarding illness, equipment, treatment and research in the CF community, to communicate within the community and with experts on CF topics, web design and administration, and partially to work on graphics and fundraising. I have experience participating in clinical trials, I am a member of the SAWP at EMA.”

Babu

Development and all that is necessary from the comic script to lighting up the fireplace. ;)

CF Hero combines everything I love: technology, creativity, professionalism, healthcare, making the world a better place, helping people and working in a great team.

Míša

I have been a big fan of the CF Hero project from the very beginning because of Marek and our daughter Laura.

I am very happy to be part of a great team.

Since the release of the CF Hero app, I have been involved in marketing communication, graphic and text content of the app and the website.

Edita

I joined the team in the middle of 2019, when I was just thinking about where I wanted to go professionally. My friends had long been dedicated to helping the sick and I was happy to join them because I like being around meaningful projects. At CF Hero, I look for and explore resources, both financial and human.  

Kuba

Meaningfulness at work has always been crucial for me and here comes a great team, the opportunity to participate in one of the first telemedicine projects and, most importantly, to work on a project that seeks to prolong the lives of people with cystic fibrosis.

I found it all in CF Hero.

Michal

I came to CF Hero as a junior developer who wanted to broaden his horizons. However, in a relatively short time, the project grew incredibly close to my heart and I am honored to be part of our dev team.

Ondra

I joined CF Hero in February 2021 to help with UX of the app alongside my studies.

CF Hero is close to my heart because it’s a meaningful project which literally prolongs lives. On top of that, it allows me to work with incredible people who live and breathe for the same cause.

Together with Kuba we develop new concepts for features and app mechanics and then I design them. Throughout the whole process I involve and talk to children with CF, our end users, so the whole app is easy to use and fulfils their needs.

How to become a CF Hero partner?

Our partners include patient associations, acceleration programs, foundations in the non-profit sector, corporate foundations and companies.

If you wish to become a partner, submit the form and we will look for the right form of cooperation.

We will be happy to contact you and look forward to hearing from you. 

Yours

CF Hero Team

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We will contact you.
Thank you very much, CF Hero team.

CF Hero - mobilní aplikace pomáhající zlepšit život lidem s cystickou fibrózou - obrazek "Kyslika"

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You’re right here. Choose one of the ways you want to collaborate and submit the form.
We will contact you.
Thank you very much, CF Hero team.

CF Hero - mobilní aplikace pomáhající zlepšit život lidem s cystickou fibrózou - obrazek "Kyslika"