MIT Solve

Solution Overview

Solution Name:

e-TRIAGE – Digital Clinical Assistant

One-line solution summary:

Empowers communities with a digitized clinical pathway and triage for conclusive early detection/action.

Pitch your solution.

1. The massive global shortage of trained Physicians in various communities across the world is the primary problem that we intend to solve.

2. Our solution incorporates Clinical expertise into rules and evidence based protocol into a digital tool to enable health workers' cohorts (Physician Assistant/Nurse) to use the digital pathway for triage.

3. This would create an exponential availability of triage expertise in these communities and ensure that we have a standardized global triage for detecting outbreaks early and reducing the burden on humankind.

Film your elevator pitch.

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What specific problem are you solving?

The severe shortage of doctors is a critical problem globally, further precipitated by the pandemic. India’s doctor-to-patient ratio remains abysmally low, which is merely 0.7 doctors per 1,000 people. COVID 19 has further burdened the healthcare system worldwide with a severe mismatch between demand and supply of healthcare resources. During the second wave, India’s caseload rose from 10000 cases to 400,000 cases within 30 days due to an ineffective system in identifying and responding to outbreaks. Their ability to efficiently anticipate, adequately prepare, and correctly deploy resources to respond to health threats was severely stifled. The number of deaths rose from 75 to 4500 per day and this can be attributed to a lack of accessibility to doctors. Our solution aims to eliminate these factors.

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What is your solution?

e- Triage, Digital Clinical Assistant is built to provide additional Physician bandwidth that is woefully short across the world. The Patient-Doctor ratios in various parts of the world are bad on a normal day and truly go out of control when we are faced with outbreaks & pandemics. Our solution encapsulates decades of formal clinical expertise and experience duly leveraging the power of digital to embed this knowledge into a simplistic and easy to deploy tool that can be used on a Phone/Laptop/In-Person or Remotely. This is evidence-based triage duly tested by Physicians and found suitable for capturing symptoms & vitals and generating a binary deduction using Health Workers such as Physician Assistants or Nurses (& In times of outbreaks volunteers). It follows the typical Q&A interaction that normally happens between a Physician and Patient. All the responses are entered into the digital platform that is equipped with intelligence and knowledge built into it helping navigation through a chain of clinically recommended tests and observations to be able to diagnose symptomatically the presence or absence of an issue. This democratization of care is not “nice to have“ in communities with shortages but is a “must-have” to avoid outbreaks becoming pandemics.

Who does your solution serve, and in what ways will the solution impact their lives?

Our solution serves quality clinical care accessibility and scalability through standardized clinical pathways.

Pandemic unearthed the worst crisis of bridging the doctor-patient gap. Unfortunately established healthcare systems were unable to do justice. Preparedness, as defined by the UN and WHO, is the ability (knowledge, capacities, and organizational systems) to anticipate, detect and respond effectively to, and recover from, the impact of likely, imminent, or current health emergencies, hazards, events or conditions. Preparedness also means putting in place mechanisms that will allow organizations to deploy staff and resources quickly once a crisis strikes.

e-Triage has the capability, capacity, and knowledge to scale. It efficiently addresses the physician bandwidth.

Which dimension of the Challenge does your solution most closely address?

Equip last-mile primary healthcare providers with the necessary tools and knowledge to detect disease outbreaks quickly and respond to them effectively.

Explain how the problem you are addressing, the solution you have designed, and the population you are serving align with the Challenge.

In the entire triage, it reduces the doctor load by 50%, increases physician capacity to 100%, and their productivity to 2x.

The challenge being poor doctor-patient ratios and quality health care, our solution directly addresses the shortage of and burden on physicians. e-Triage, Digital Clinical Assistant, which works well across all health systems, equips primary healthcare workers with clinical pathways. Being an Omni Channel platform, accessibility, reach and quality care is achieved.

In what city, town, or region is your solution team headquartered?

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

What is your solution’s stage of development?

Pilot: An organization deploying a tested product, service, or business model in at least one community.

Explain why you selected this stage of development for your solution.

Our solution is in the pilot stage. It has been deployed at Ramakrishna Hospital, Coimbatore. The business model is pay per use/yearly license.

Who is the Team Lead for your solution?

Dr. Divya Sharma

More About Your Solution

About Your Team

What type of organization is your solution team?

Hybrid of for-profit and nonprofit

How many people work on your solution team?

Full time - 3

Part time - 6

How long have you been working on your solution?

3 years

How are you and your team well-positioned to deliver this solution?

1. Dr. Divya Sharma, MDHM, 12 years of global experience in healthcare administration and immigration health compliance at Qualitas Medical Group (Australian immigration, UK border and Malaysia immigration)

2. Mr. Premkumar Seshadri (Mentor and Advisor), Ex Vice Chairman of HCL Group, Ex Group CEO of Apollo Hospitals Group

3. Mr. Daljit Singh (Advisor), Ex President of Fortis Hospitals

4. Dr. Madhumitha Ravi, Medical Practioner

5. Mr. Ravi Kuppusamy, Former Head of Technology Solutions BFSI, HCL Technologies LTD. With 20 + years of global experience with Thought Leadership and Digital Mindset. Specialized in Digital Transformations and Digital Engineering Products and Services.

6. Mr. Umakanth Divakaran, CTO, BAssure Solutions PVT LTD. Patent -Enterprise Solutions Architect & Software Craftsman, with proven Thought-Leadership in providing innovative solutions to IT problems across various technologies & industries. Extensive experience in Enterprise Solution Architecture, Application & Data Integration, IT re-structuring, setting up Architecture & Integration Competency Centers, and Architecture & Design Academies. Internal organization IPs, notable ones being; Microsoft Office format-aware client for JEE server, Pop-up free protected UI operations (USPTO granted DAI02: 17/106,146), Universal webhook connectivity through 4D HTTP transformation (USPTO filed DAI01: 17/105,499), Talking Shapes, Visual auto-play.

7. Ms. Ngan Nguyen, Ex McKinsey Consultant

8. Mr. Ramakrishna V, Health Care Administrator

9. Mr. Shankar, Technology Architect

What is your approach to building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive leadership team?

This is a Women entrepreneur initiative and we are looking at global deployment

Your Business Model & Partnerships

Partnership & Prize Funding Opportunities

Why are you applying to Solve?

Expertise with tech, finance and legal.

In which of the following areas do you most need partners or support?

Financial (e.g. improving accounting practices, pitching to investors)
Legal or Regulatory Matters
Monitoring & Evaluation (e.g. collecting/using data, measuring impact)

What organizations would you like to partner with, and how would you like to partner with them?

Looking to be guided by the institute and to get in touch with and learn from similar solutions which were attempted in the past.

Do you qualify for and would you like to be considered for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Prize? If you select Yes, explain how you are qualified for the prize in the additional question that appears.

No, I do not wish to be considered for this prize, even if the prize funder is specifically interested in my solution

Do you qualify for and would you like to be considered for The Andan Prize for Innovation in Refugee Inclusion? If you select Yes, explain how you are qualified for the prize in the additional question that appears.

No, I do not wish to be considered for this prize, even if the prize funder is specifically interested in my solution

Do you qualify for and would you like to be considered for the Innovation for Women Prize? If you select Yes, explain how you are qualified for the prize in the additional question that appears.

No, I do not wish to be considered for this prize, even if the prize funder is specifically interested in my solution

Do you qualify for and would you like to be considered for The AI for Humanity Prize? If you select Yes, explain how you are qualified for the prize in the additional question that appears.

No, I do not wish to be considered for this prize, even if the prize funder is specifically interested in my solution

Do you qualify for and would you like to be considered for The Global Fund Prize? If you select Yes, explain how you are qualified for the prize in the additional question that appears.

No