Concern domains
Mental well-being
Consultation companion and care-planning engine
Where Mental and Physical Health Meet in Routine Care
Spotlight-AQ is an AI-powered engine that enables providers, health systems and payers to uncover and address the psychosocial needs of patients that hold back their progress in managing chronic conditions.
Published evidence
Routine care workflow
Diabetes and obesity validation
Provider and patient impact
Priority concern map
Mental well-being leads
Psych
Confidence and worry
Social
Support context
The missing layer
Routine care is missing the human context
Chronic condition visits are time-boxed. Patients do not always know how to raise psychosocial needs. Providers have limited time to give the personalised care they would like to give.
Before Spotlight-AQ
Glucose, medication, diet, treatment options.
Important clinical work, but patient priorities can remain hidden until late in the visit or outside the record entirely.
With Spotlight-AQ
Priorities, barriers, confidence, support, readiness.
The consultation opens with what matters most, making care planning faster, more focused, and more human.
Human context reveal
Clinical data shows the pattern. Spotlight-AQ reveals what is underneath.
As the missing context comes into view, the visit moves from generic advice to a focused, agreed care plan.
Spotlight-AQ solution
The consultation companion for whole-person care
Spotlight-AQ surfaces priorities fast and turns them into agreed, evidence-informed pathway options for routine care.
01
Patient voice
Highest-priority concerns are captured before the visit.
02
Adaptive assessment
Two-wave questionnaire identifies the top areas of focus.
03
Priority domains
Psychological burden, social context, skills, barriers, screening items, and PHQ-2.
04
HCP dashboard
Graphical summaries support rapid understanding.
05
Mapped resources
Evidence-informed cards link concerns to options and resources.
06
Agreed care plan
Patient and HCP leave with a transparent plan.
How it works
From patient priorities to agreed care plan in one focused visit
Patients complete a brief questionnaire electronically in around 3-4 minutes. Results are immediately presented graphically for ease of understanding and show patient priority concerns regarding their diabetes management.
Scan QR code or receive link
Secure access before clinic, at home, or in the waiting room.
Complete a 3-4 minute questionnaire
The adaptive assessment listens for what matters most.
Attend a personalised consultation
The visit ends with an agreed care plan and tailored resources.
Review an actionable infographic summary
Priority domains and concerns are shown before or during the consultation.
Run a focused, efficient consultation
HCPs can address the barriers most likely to hold back progress.
Send tailored resources and care plan
High-level suggestions and signposting support evidence-informed discussion.
Standardise whole-person assessment
Reduce variation while keeping care personal and clinician-led.
Streamline workflow
Shorter, more targeted visits can save time and money.
Make care planning auditable
Structured outputs support quality improvement and health equity goals.
Product visualisation
A refined workflow for patient context, HCP insight, and agreed action
Patient and healthcare professional each have separate secure login to the platform. HCPs are provided with high-level suggestions for discussion as well as signposting to comprehensive evidence-based resources to address patient needs.
Wave 2 deep-dive
Top focus: practical barriers
HCP dashboard
Live pathway view
Priority domains
Discuss confidence-building actions
Clinician-led discussion support mapped to the patient's highest-weight concerns.
Tailored education and support
Links to relevant resources can be attached to the agreed plan.
AI-enabled healthcare
Human Context for the AI Era of Healthcare
Clinical data can show what is happening. Spotlight-AQ helps reveal why. By capturing psychosocial, behavioural, and practical context before the visit, Spotlight-AQ gives clinicians the missing layer needed to personalise care in the moment.
As AI becomes more embedded in healthcare, the systems that win will not only process more data. They will understand the person behind it.
Clinical data
HbA1c, CGM, medications, appointments
Behavioural data
Adherence, engagement, treatment barriers
Human context
Fears, priorities, confidence, support, knowledge, motivation
Spotlight-AQ layer
Converts context into focused care planning
Without human context, AI risks becoming faster at delivering generic care. Spotlight-AQ gives clinicians and health systems the missing layer needed for truly personalised care.
Clinical validation
Clinically validated across diabetes and obesity
Reported in published studies and provided materials, Spotlight-AQ digital health tool facilitates shorter visits focused on physical, mental and social wellbeing, improving patient outcomes, reducing provider burnout and saving health systems money.
shorter visits
mean HbA1c improvement among adults with T1D or T2D
reduction in diabetes distress scores
reduction in emotional burden
reduction in regimen distress
physician burnout, with higher patient and physician satisfaction
Visit efficiency
Cost savings per visit due to shorter visits
$11 PCP
$49 Endo
$32 Non-endocrine specialist care
*Risk reduction based on UKPDS analyses. Data on file, peer-reviewed publications, conference presentations. Outcomes are presented as reported in supplied evidence materials and should not be interpreted as guaranteed results for every clinic or patient.
Value by stakeholder
One care-planning layer, four strategic outcomes
Feel heard
Personalised treatment according to unique needs, better visits, and improved clinical and behavioural health outcomes.
Less burden, better conversations
Shorter visits, streamlined workflow, stronger patient relationships, and more confidence addressing behavioural health.
Standardised, equitable care planning
Time and cost savings, better population health, reduced variation, improved provider retention, and health equity support.
Stronger adoption and persistence
Improved engagement with therapies and devices, structured psychosocial insight, and support for value-based care.
Trust and standards
Built for credibility with clinical, digital health, and partner audiences
Spotlight-AQ is positioned as decision support, care planning support, consultation companion, and evidence-informed pathway support - not diagnostic AI and not a replacement for clinician judgement.
Research foundation
Evidence-led, clinically grounded, and built from routine care realities
The product and evidence base draw from multicentre RCT work, real-world feasibility research, diabetes, obesity and psychosocial burden research, and protocol publications.
Structured psychosocial support in diabetes care
Research foundation supporting quality of life improvement and reduced HCP burnout.
Routine workflow and consultation efficiency
Evidence materials report shorter visits, higher satisfaction, and patient-centred care delivery.
Adaptive assessment and care planning design
Two-wave assessment design focuses on highest-priority domains and mapped care pathways.
Diabetes, obesity and psychosocial burden
Supports clinical teams addressing barriers to self-management and treatment persistence.
Founder and creator
Professor Katharine Barnard built Spotlight-AQ around the human realities of chronic condition care
Spotlight-AQ was created to make psychosocial needs visible inside routine consultations, so patients and clinicians can focus on what is really getting in the way.
Designed to surface the priorities patients may not otherwise raise during time-limited appointments.
Connects clinical research, lived experience, and consultation workflows into practical next steps.
Brings mental well-being, confidence, support, and self-management context into the care conversation.
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Bring whole-person care into every routine visit.
Spotlight-AQ lets providers quickly address the often-hidden problems facing individuals with diabetes and other chronic diseases, creating shorter and more targeted visits that improve health outcomes.
Reduces burden on HCPs
Focuses consultations
Standardises care planning