This guide takes you by the hand from your first login to the moment you read your doctor's opinion. You don't need to know anything about medicine or technology. Just go step by step. At every stage we explain not only how, but also why — because we believe it's easier to do something you understand.
One rule to begin: "I don't know" is always a good answer. APOGEUM never expects you to be an expert. You can also ask someone close to you to fill something in for you at any time — that's caregiver mode.
You open the APOGEUM site and enter your email address. You don't set up a password — you receive a magic link in your inbox. You click it, and you're in.
Why this way? Passwords get lost and stolen. A magic link is simpler and safer: only the person with your inbox can get in.
If the link doesn't arrive within a minute, check your spam folder and make sure the address has no typos. The link works for a limited time; if it expires, just request a new one.
On your first visit you choose what you're looking for: ongoing care (being guided over time) or a one-off opinion. Based on this, the system connects you with a doctor.
Why? APOGEUM is continuous care, but not everyone needs that at the start. You decide how close the doctor should be.
This is the heart of the system. You open the wizard and answer simple questions about what happened: when, how long, what you felt before, during and after. The wizard leads you step by step — you don't need to know anything in advance.
A few things worth knowing:
Why the effort? Because it's exactly these details — collected as they happen, not reconstructed from memory three months later — that give the doctor a true picture. One well-recorded seizure is worth more than an hour of reminiscing at an appointment.
In the medication tab you don't have to confirm every day that you took your pill. It works the other way round: you mark only when you missed a dose or took it late. You'll see a timeline of recent days.
Why the reverse? Because it's more honest and less tiring. Nobody taps "taken" 30 times a month. But the note "I forgot on Wednesday" is invaluable to a doctor — it often explains where a worse week came from.
You briefly record how you feel and what was going on: sleep, stress, fever, cycle, anything relevant. This isn't a private diary — these are signals that help make sense of your seizures.
Why? Because illness doesn't happen in a vacuum. Sometimes it's lack of sleep or stress that acts as a trigger. The doctor will see connections that can't be reconstructed from memory.
Do you have an EEG, MRI or blood-test result? In the "My tests" tab you enter a written description — what was in them, what the doctor said. At this stage you don't upload files; the content is enough.
Why? So your image is complete. A test result reaches the doctor marked "to analyse," and you can see what stage it's at.
This is a short form that suggests some of the answers itself, based on what you've already entered. You only check and complete it — especially the sections about how the illness affects your life and how you feel about it. At the end you click "Save to Patient Image."
Why? Because the numbers about seizures aren't everything. The Index adds what no test can measure — your quality of life and your emotional state — and feeds it straight into the image the doctor sees.
Important: fill in the Index while signed in as a patient. The result is then saved directly into your image.
This is the moment the loop closes. In the "My entries" tab you see the status of each submission and the doctor's opinion once they've approved it. What comes back to you has passed through a human — not through the machine alone.
Why this order? Because that's our promise: AI analyses — a human approves. Artificial intelligence prepares, but the decision and the words you read are always signed off by a doctor.
Each of these steps adds a signal to one shared Patient Image. You build it from the side of everyday life; the doctor reads, orders and approves it from the side of knowledge. A continuous stream of information flows between you — and that is the whole idea: not a meeting once a quarter, but a loop that never breaks.
You don't have to do everything at once. Start with a single entry. The rest will accumulate over time — and your image will grow truer with every day.
Do I have to enter something every day? No. You enter things when something happens. The more signals, the better the image — but you set the pace.
I don't remember the details of a seizure — what then? You select "I don't know." That's normal and useful. An honest "I don't know" beats guessing.
Does the artificial intelligence diagnose me? No. AI orders your data and prepares the image. The doctor diagnoses and decides.
Who sees my data? Your doctor, as part of your care. Data is stored in the European Union, in line with GDPR. At this stage APOGEUM remains pre-medical and anonymous.
Can I ask someone to help me fill things in? Yes — that's what caregiver mode is for. Someone close to you can complete an entry on your behalf.
APOGEUM — an original project by NeuroArt (Piotr Zwoliński). Supported by the EMERGEN Foundation. Motto: "AI analyses — a human approves."