One-line solution summary:
An all-in-one, AI-enhanced app to help manage your and your families’ health conditions easily and intelligently
Pitch your solution.
As a family of doctors, my parents and I could not keep up with their medical issues. I thought, what are other people doing? My parents resorted to keeping a binder and composition notebook for their health information, like so many of my patients, but they did not have it with them all the times they needed it. I sought to digitize that, including features such as search and share, to help get even more value out of the stored data.
What specific problem are you solving?
There is no effective way to keep up with one’s healthcare information. Educated and well-organized patients and families use a 3-ring binder for documents they receive and a composition notebook for symptoms they are tracking. Otherwise, some families also upload documents to Google Drive or email themselves copies. Finally, one family we spoke to used a running Word document. We believe this system needs to change. We believe the lack of a well-designed system of storage of one's health information leads many people not to do it and that, in turn, leads to many people systematically dis-empowered when it comes to their own health issues. We see people not even knowing why they are taking their 10+ medications. They don't know if they have high blood pressure or high cholesterol. They did not realize that the blood thinner medicine had fallen off their list of medications.
Through more knowledge, they will have more control, and thus more power of their own health issues.
What is your solution?
Patient and caregiver centered app that allows users to take text notes and voice notes, upload images and files, and track symptoms. Users can use the smart search and built-in filters to reference their notes, share their notes with caregivers or providers, and trend symptoms that they have been tracking to get more value out of their information.
We also created a health summary that collates user data into a short and useful health summary for users to share with their health providers. Finally, we plan to implement features to share data directly through telemedicine platforms.
Who does your solution serve, and in what ways will the solution impact their lives?
Patients with chronic conditions or complex health issues, families who are helping to manage a dependent’s health issues, and physicians who are able to get real-time health information to diagnose more effectively and create better treatment plans.
We found that the target market for our product is primarily females with families and people with chronic illnesses who need to interact with their health almost daily.
Explain how the problem, your solution, and your solution’s target population relate to the Challenge.
Similar to pandemics, new substances of abuse actually make waves across various populations and NLP analysis of Twitter / Facebook / Instagram has been proven to be instrumental in proactively dealing with drug ‘outbreaks’ in local communities. Currently there is no similar source of data for symptoms that could be related to an infectious outbreak. Our solution provides such a platform. We plan to use anonymized and abstracted data for population health purposes, including tracking infectious disease outbreaks. Females will likely be the primary users of the app for their whole family.
What is your solution’s stage of development?
Prototype: A venture or organization building and testing its product, service, or business modelWho is the primary delegate for your solution?
Nupur Garg
In what city, town, or region is your solution team headquartered?
New Haven, CT, USAWhich of the following categories best describes your solution?
A new technologyDescribe what makes your solution innovative.
Currently, there are no AI-enabled note-taking apps that are focused on patients and caregivers. Specifically, existing similar solutions ask patients to categorize their own notes, do not have search, and auto-correct medical terminologies. People are using Google Drive and WhatsApp as work-arounds because those provide the ability to upload images and files, which are important in the area of healthcare.
Our solution is innovative not only in its design and capabilities to take multi-media notes and share them with family members, but also because of AI-enabled features that allow users to get the most value from their health information.
Describe the core technology that powers your solution.
Our solution includes software technology that allows users to
- create, edit, delete, share, and print multi-media notes
- track and trend information
- use machine learning to enhance search queries and create focused health summaries
- use image processing to identify and tag images for inclusion in search results and health summaries
Provide evidence that this technology works.
I built the MVP product as a webapp to use for myself and my family in 2016. We used it for over a year before hackers got into it and it was shut down by the server company for not being secure enough. Until we lost it, my family and I did not realize how valuable what we had was. We missed it enormously. It had worked so well for us that I decided to find a technically inclined co-founder and she is building it currently.
Please select the technologies currently used in your solution:
What is your theory of change?
Vision: We would like all patients and caregivers to be empowered with their medical information to have a better understanding of their health issues and needs, make better lifestyle choices that are more conducive towards a healthier life, and can engage with their providers to participate in a more goal-directed and achievable treatment plan for their acute or chronic issues that may arise.
Step 1: Patients and families will begin to enter small amounts of health data that they feel they want to remember but do not have a place to put it.
Step 2: Patients and families will begin to reference that data, seeing the value of their efforts to enter it, and reinforcing that behavior to enter more health data.
Step 3: Patients and families build communities with of caregiving with the app, using the share notes feature where other people can contribute to health notes, caregiving plans, and /or lists of questions to ask the providers.
Step 4: Patients and families use the AI enabled features to generate summaries of their health information focused on their cardiac issues or trends of their symptoms related to their chemotherapy treatments and give their time-stamped information to the providers to help them devise an even more optimized treatment plan, which patients benefit from in quality and quantity of life.
Step 5: Providers, patients, and families all see the value of this app and are using it regularly for their health-related information recording needs. It is now synced to the EHRs, anonymized data is extracted for population health analyses, and communities are being built centered around disease conditions.
Select the key characteristics of your target population.
Which of the UN Sustainable Development Goals does your solution address?
In which countries do you currently operate?
In which countries will you be operating within the next year?
How many people does your solution currently serve? How many will it serve in one year? In five years?
Currently – 0
In one year – 10,000
In five years – 3,000,000
What are your goals within the next year and within the next five years?
Within the next year, we expect to refine our product, hire a technical team to upgrade our machine learning algorithms, and launch our go-to-market plans.
Within five years, we will scale within this country and translate the app to at least 5 other languages. We also plan to add features to connect our app to EHRs.
What barriers currently exist for you to accomplish your goals in the next year and in the next five years?
Financial – currently we are boot-strapped. We have not received any outside funds.
Team – currently we have just two people on the team
Go-to-market – this is a new framework that we are trying to introduce
How do you plan to overcome these barriers?
Financial - We are applying to multiple grants. We have begun to speak with VC firms that focus on AI in healthcare and fund seed round but we are currently too early stage still.
Team – We have begun to source for talent though personal contacts. We are writing job descriptions and making a priority list.
Go-to-market – We have brought on mentors who run marketing firms and are planning on a multi-prong approach involving physician influencers, educational information about the benefits of recording health information, and, of course, SEO on a user-facing website to direct traffic to the app.
What type of organization is your solution team?
For-profit, including B-Corp or similar modelsHow many people work on your solution team?
Nupur Garg, MD
MIT, Class of 2007, Double majors in Course 7 and 10, Double minors in 15 and 21 – winner of Laya Wiesner award for work as SWE President for two years.
Yale School of Medicine, Class of 2012 – thesis completed on Under-representation of Females in Academia
Mount Sinai in NYC, Emergency Medicine Resident – winner of Resident Research award for research in Health Information Exchange analyses
Maitreyee Joshi
Carnegie Mellon University, B.S. in Computer Science
CS Engineer with Disney Imagineering, Stanford University
PM at Microsoft and PathAI
How many years have you worked on your solution?
Nupur: 4, Maitreyee: 1
Why are you and your team well-positioned to deliver this solution?
My medical background, knowledge of the healthcare system, and experience with social enterprises and start-ups help lead the direction, networking, and strategic planning of the company.
Maitreyee’s technical background, experience as PM at large and small companies, and extremely talented skills as both a programmer, systematic thinker, and leader are allowing us to create and launch a well-researched and thought out MVP as a native iOS app with no external funding.
What organizations do you currently partner with, if any? How are you working with them?
None currently, but talking with Yale Hospital.
What is your business model?
We plan to have a B to B side of the business that we sell to pharmaceutical companies or other research institutions that allows them to better gather data from their patients undergoing clinical trials.
Do you primarily provide products or services directly to individuals, or to other organizations?
Individual consumers or stakeholders (B2C)What is your path to financial sustainability?
We do not plan to sell ads or data. Rather, we may use the fremium model in addition to the B to B arm of the business.
Why are you applying to Solve?
Primarily, we would like to be a part of the Solve community. Secondarily, we think our app would be extremely valuable in early detection of contagious and life-threatening infectious diseases, especially since the data will be coming directly from the patients and caregivers rather than being suppressed by tertiary parties.
In which of the following areas do you most need partners or support?
Please explain in more detail here.
Our point of most clarity is our solution / technology. We know what we are building and who we are building it for. We would use our partnerships to identify avenues for growth, including best timeline for various expansion techniques.
In terms of talent recruitment, we worry most about the culture we create at the company. Sometimes this can be the hardest to assess in a candidate. SWe would want partners who also value talent recruitment a similar way.
Finally, we have chosen to forego some of the easiest types of business models in healthcare, including ad industry ($3 billion industry in healthcare) and selling sensitive patient data, even if it was de-identified. We are open to many other types of business models, but we will be looking to our partners for connections with other types of payers, such as insurance companies or pharmaceutical companies.
What organizations would you like to partner with, and how would you like to partner with them?
We would most like to partner with patient advocacy organizations to become an app that they support and promote because of how much it may empower patients and caregivers.
Other types of potential partners include
- insurance companies who want to achieve better health for their clients,
- pharmaceutical companies who want to track better symptom data from their clinical research trial participants,
- government organizations who want to achieve better health for their populations, and
- hospital organizations as a patient satisfaction tool.
Solution Team
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Nupur Garg Dr. , Pro-Patient Tech
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Solution Name:
Caspia Health