About Self Research Institute

Self Research Institute, a U.S. 501(c)(3) non-profit, specializes in scientific research and technological advancements with a primary focus on personal informatics (PI), also known as Human Data Science. Engaged in both research and product development, our core offering is the Self Health Wallet—a robust solution designed for the self-sovereign, secure, and private management of personal health and medical data. We believe everyone can benefit from access to their health data and advanced analytics, to achieve their best health.

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Our Global Digital Health Wallet Initiative

Aggregate your health & medical data

We believe that consolidating all health and medical data on a single platform offers significant benefits for the users. Our goal is to create the most comprehensive dataset available—integrating EHRs, sensor data, and user-reported information. Additionally, we aim to provide unmatched flexibility, with our open-source approach giving us a distinct edge.

Interpret and Understand

Manage and share with ease

How We Plan to Achieve This

Research

The Self-Research Institute team is a diverse group of researchers from various disciplines, united by a shared passion for human informatics. Through our approach of interdisciplinary collaboration, we aim to unlock new insights and develop innovative solutions. At SRI, we believe in empowering our researchers to pursue their own interests while also engaging them in exploring diverse product requirements identified by our product team. SRI researchers publish papers in medical journals and speak at conferences to advocate for DID and effective human data solutions.


The benefit of having scientific team onboard

  • Continuous Improvement of Metrics and Analytics

  • Interdisciplinary Expertise

  • Scientific Rigor

  • Global Reach

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Development

The institute's main product is the Self-Framework—an ecosystem of solutions designed to support continuous data flow, user interaction, and efficient data management. It encompasses data aggregation, third-party data integration, encryption, storage, analytics, a user-friendly interface, and more.


Self-Framework Main Components

  • Self Health Wallet - User Interface, allows interaction with the system, aggregate health and medical data, check metrics and trends, share and manage data with ease

  • Self AI Makes interfacing with the system more intuitive, responsive, and tailored to individual user needs

  • Self chain - SelfChain’s proprietary blockchain platform is built for high performance and top-tier security standards. We store critical and sensitive data on it to ensure integrity and resistance to tampering. Fully GDPR compliant, the platform supports controlled data destruction (right to be forgotten) and utilizes decentralized data storage for enhanced security and immutability.

  • Ontology - we use fuzzy ontology, that extends traditional ontology by incorporating fuzzy logic to manage uncertainty, imprecision, and partial truth, which are prevalent in many fields, including medicine.
    SDKs and APIs - Public API for the 3d party data integration

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Improving All Aspects of Life

At SRI, we believe users can benefit by consolidating their data into a single platform. By integrating information from various domains, we can unlock deeper insights, build meaningful connections, and fully leverage the power of data.

environment

Identity

Physical health

financial

mental health

Accomplishments

social connections

  • We need to design and build AI that helps healthcare professionals be better at what they do. The aim should be enabling humans to become better learners and decision-makers.

    Mihaela van der Schaar, PhD, director of the Cambridge Centre for AI in Medicine at the University of Cambridge in the U.K

  • Electronic medical records are a technology that will revolutionize the way we deliver care. And it's not just that we will be able to collect information, it's that everyone involved in the healthcare enterprise will be able to use that information more effectively.

    Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, medical doctor and executive

  • It's crazy to me that in this world of electronic medical records Walmart has so much information about how we shop, but no one has that information about our health. Why can't my doctor say, 'Wow, Anne, based on your lifestyle and behavior, you're five years from being diabetic.

    Anne Wojcicki, CEO of 23andMe

  • Whether it's by helping us search for health-related information, connecting us with doctors through online portals, or enabling us to store and retrieve our medical records online, the Internet is starting to show the promise it has to transform the way people interact with and improve their own health and wellness.

    Dean Ornish, physician and researcher

  • Solving our region’s biggest health challenges can only be achieved by innovative African-led solutions, which combine global and local frameworks

    Ritgak Tilley-Gyado, Physician & Anthropologist

  • Developments in medical technology have long been confined to procedural or pharmaceutical advances, while neglecting a most basic and essential component of medicine: patient information management

    J D

  • I want all the data, the patients to all wear Fitbits, all wear OURA rings and bring me all that information. Just having someone's blood pressure when they're at home and their heart rate can really change their pregnancy from the first visit forward. So that information is like gold to me

    Dr. Tina Nguyen

Other Projects and Initiatives

Self Data Atlas

A large undertaking to correct the ontology mapping of a human being for better data storage and analytics

Sci2Code

Custom built integration to link segments of scientific papers to code segments, features and UI/UX decisions. A backbone tool for all our projects

Neurogen Research

Developing machine learning algorithms for early detection and assistive treatments for children with neurological and spinal conditions.

Self Assist

Providing tailored connections to relevant medical, financial, and mental health support based on individual needs.

Applications Powered by Self Framework

Ying

Based on the proprietary Self framework's Competency Ontology, Ying facilitates direct skills and services exchange between individuals

SafeWaters

SafeWaters applies the Self Framework principles to enhance the safety and rights of fishermen to create a supportive network for data sharing and protection.

SelfPass

SelfPass is a blockchain-based health passport ecosystem that facilitates data exchange between individuals, data issuers, and regulators, ensuring that health data management respects individuals' right to privacy.

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Corporate Sponsors

Memberships, Partners and collaborants

Become a partner

If you're interested in contributing to our initiatives, we welcome your involvement and appreciate your support.

There are many ways to contribute to the project, from providing feedback and testing the software to contributing to code or documentation and promoting the adoption of decentralized identity solutions in your organization or community.

We welcome and encourage collaboration and partnership from individuals and organizations that share our vision for a more secure, user-centric, and privacy-preserving digital ecosystem. Together, we can work towards the development and adoption of decentralized identity solutions, and make a positive impact on the way we manage digital identities and personal data.

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