ConductScience / Supplement safety software
Resin Health is a phone-first supplement safety tool that connects any supplement bottle to the NIH Office of Dietary Supplements fact sheets that explain what is inside it — cross-referenced against the medications you already take, in plain language, in seconds.
01 / Need
Over 60% of US adults take supplements, and the NIH publishes authoritative fact sheets for more than 100 nutrients and botanicals. But those fact sheets sit as static documents on a government website, disconnected from the physical bottle in someone’s hand and the prescriptions already in their cabinet. Resin Health puts the right fact sheet in a person’s hands the moment they point their phone at the bottle.
02 / Build
A user scans a bottle. The app identifies it by barcode against the NIH Dietary Supplement Label Database, or reads the Supplement Facts panel directly with ConductVision OCR when the barcode is unknown. Every ingredient maps to its ODS fact sheet and is checked against the user’s medication profile. Results come back as red, amber, and green flags with plain-language next steps — not abstract risk scores. From any flag, users can ask an ODS-grounded chatbot or watch a 90-second explainer video.
03 / Outcome
Resin Health was named one of eight Phase 1 winners of the NIH Office of Dietary Supplements challenge “Supplements, Facts First,” advancing to Phase 2. It is being built with Link Health, a nonprofit embedded in safety-net clinics across Boston and Houston, so the tool reaches the older adults and expectant mothers who carry the most supplement-safety risk and are least likely to find a government fact sheet on their own.
Implementation model
Barcode lookup against a cached NIH DSLD index loads instantly and works offline. Unknown barcodes fall back to ConductVision OCR, which reads the Supplement Facts panel directly.
Each ingredient is linked to its ODS fact sheet and checked against the user’s own medications for interactions and dosage concerns — personalized to older-adult, prenatal, or general profiles.
Red, amber, and green indicators with concrete next steps (“take calcium at least 2 hours apart from amlodipine”), plus a shareable summary to bring to a pharmacist or prescriber.
An ODS-only chatbot answers follow-up questions grounded strictly in NIH fact sheets, and short explainer videos translate each fact sheet for the user’s demographic.
Operating details
Partnership
ConductScience designs, builds, and maintains clinical research software for academic medical centers, hospital teams, and translational research groups.
