Improve adherence with home kidney testing
Improve adherence with home kidney testing
Close care gaps, improve outcomes, and reduce costs with Minuteful Kidney.
Trusted by healthcare leaders
Testing at home with Minuteful Kidney
From 0% to 72% adherence1
A majority of at-risk people don’t take their annual urine test. Reach the untested population by shifting testing to the home.
Send a kit
ACR (albumin to creatinine ratio) test kit sent to the individual’s home
Get Tested
Individual completes the test using a smartphone app
Fast results
Results immediately available for the clinician to review
It was amazing to get instant results from the app because it put me at ease knowing my kidneys were fine.
Leah Dunbar,
Student, 18 years old ,Southampton
Using Minuteful Kidney
The Minuteful Kidney test app and kit allow people to test themselves at home for signs of CKD and receive immediate clinical results. Using colourimetric analysis, computer vision, and AI we transform the smartphone camera into a clinical-grade medical device. The app walks the user through a simple test, making it as easy as snapping a photo.
Smartphone-powered CKD early detection service
An A-Z service
We take care of the whole process. Once you provide us with a list of eligible people, we post them kits and ensure they take the test. Their clinician receives the results for follow-up.
Improve patient experience
Engage previously untested people by giving them the freedom to test when it's most convenient for them, from the comfort of their home.
Easy testing
Our user-friendly app makes testing at home as easy as taking a photo. People of all ages can take the test in under 3 minutes, with a 98% user satisfaction rate.
Clinical results
Our AI and computer vision technology calibrates the dipstick scan and analyses the results regardless of lighting conditions, setting, or device type, ensuring clinical-grade results.
Recommended Resources
YHEC Cost Model
The compliance and cost-effectiveness of smartphone urinalysis albumin screening for people with diabetes in England.
Read the peer-reviewed study
HSJ Award: Primary Care Innovation of the Year
Find out why Modality Partnership and Healthy.io won the award for primary care innovation of the year.
Read the case study
How We're Combating a £1.5B CKD Problem
1 million people in the UK are in the early stages of CKD but don't know it yet. The solution may be right in their pockets.
Read the blog post
Make a difference for those at risk of CKD
Citations and Footnotes
- Judith Shore, Michelle Green, Andrew Hardy & Deborah Livesey (2019): The compliance and cost-effectiveness of smartphone urinalysis albumin screening for people with diabetes in England, Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes Research, DOI: 10.1080/14737167.2019.1650024
- 5-year projected savings and outcomes if rolled out for untested people with diabetes or hypertension across England, assuming 30% consent rate. Based on York Health Economics Consortium model and 2017 National CKD Audit.