LiveEquipd

Mobility, recovery and independence is what people seek when faced with a healthcare crisis. Unfortunately, the pathway is not equitable for the 15% of 61M people in the U.S. with a disability facing mobility challenges. This is a result of disjointed processes, 33% of physical therapists report excessive documentation as the largest burden created by system and supplier deficiencies. Contributing to high rehospitalization rates post injury for this underrepresented community. 30% of individuals with Spinal Cord injuries are re-hospitalized one or more times during any given year post injury. Lastly, when disability, chronic pain and circumstances intersect mental health struggles arise according to research from the University of Michigan. 59% of adults with Spinal Cord injuries, compared with 31% of the general public face mental health challenges. The lack of an holistic system fails to support the recovery journey for my community.

We provide healthcare organizations technology that streamlines equipment procurement and offers a better way to equip their patients for the entire recovery journey.

Our AI-enabled platform reimagines the equipment procurement process for healthcare professionals and their patients with paralysis related disabilities. Aggregating the processes from the hospital entry, through discharge and patient follow-up, we enhance results.

Its centralized supplier management and impactful resources allows providers to get the most relevant medical equipment, supplies, and assistive technology to meet their patients’ needs and enable healthy outcomes. With our holistic technology, we are capturing data trends of potential rising risks leading to rehospitalizations in post-acute care.        

This global estimate for disability is on the rise due to population ageing and the rapid spread of chronic diseases, as well as improvements in the methodologies used to measure disability. The Global market landscape.

Total Available Market (TAM): 15% of the world's population have some form of disability. Global DME market size was USD 208.5 billion in 2022.

Serviceable Available Market (SAM): U.S. durable medical equipment market was USD 59.6 billion in 2022.

Serviceable Obtainable Market (SOM): 1 in 4 of adults in the U.S. have some type of disability. 14% of those have a mobility related disability. Equating to roughly a 8 billion market opportunity. Diagnoses: Spinal Cord Injury, MS, Stroke, Cerebral Palsy & Other causes.

We begin our business journey focused on the paralysis related disability community in the United States. Healthcare is the biggest spend of the GDP but those dollars and the industry is do not use it efficiently in minority communities. By simply using technology and less documentation we increase the positive results during the first encounter versus several encounters later.

Andre Johnson is uniquely qualified to solve systematic pitfalls in the rehabilitation care journey based on his professional and life experience. He suffered a disability as the result of being shot in a violent carjacking in Chicago. The event took the life of his best friend and left him with a spinal cord injury. He has navigated this injury for nearly two decades, keeping account of the difficulties he and others have faced.

Andre has built a substantial network in the entrepreneurial and disability community, acting as an advisor to Uber’s Wheelchair Accessible Vehicle division during the beta stage. He is a Board Member at Chicago Area Fair Housing Alliance (CAFHA), an organization committed to the value of fair housing, diversity, and integration. In addition to that, he holds the role of Senior Database Specialist at Kaizen Health, a fast-growing, venture-backed technology startup that strives to constantly improve access to healthcare through dependable non-emergency medical transportation. Lastly, he’s a member of Disability Lead, an organization focused on increasing civic engagement and diverse leadership in the Chicago region by developing and building a network of leaders with disabilities.

Our advisory team have backgrounds that directly benefit the company. Mindi Knebel my boss and founder of Kaizen Health provides strategic insights into how a healthcare platform is built and utilized in entire health systems across the country. Piper Hansen, is a professor of therapy at Rush Medical Center. She provides clinical and educational experience as diverse healthcare professional. She was my former therapist at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab. Rosetta Bowie a veteran healthcare sales professional that provides knowledge of the supplier and vendor landscape with her wealth of experience. Lastly, our technology advisor is JC Garrett the CEO of FarShore Partners, a technology firm with a wealth of experience in building healthcare platforms.

We recently completed an IBM mentorship program with our second prototype and quickly improved our design processes. Our mentor assed design as it pertained to the voice of the customer and connected us with one of her colleagues that helped us improve our design for the user experience and AI capabilities. We developed a phased approach to development including the client feedback at each phase. At the end of programming, we were able to align our strategy and measures better with customer priorities.

Currently we are not a live product. 

We’ve been active, we started this process with the social enterprise donation from UberWAV. Then we received a grant from West Side United, an organization partially funded by four local hospitals serving diverse communities. We secured a letter of intent from the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, the top physical medicine and rehabilitation hospital in the country. In addition, we’ve created a pipeline of Chicagoland organizations that are seeking better solutions.

We have built validation with the top physical medicine and rehabilitation in the country, the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab through in-depth customer discovery. We plan to land and expand with their Alliance program once we find product market fit. To acquire more clients, we plan to attend regional and national conferences targeted at physical medicine and rehabilitation hospital care.

LiveEquipd has been able to understand the gaps in the procurement process and post-acute engagement with patients as they navigate their recovery journey. We've updated our focus on using AI with the help of Microsoft for Startups and MassChallenge & IBM mentorship programming over the last year.

We just started the Workbox Ventures Future of Work Accelerator this week. We are excited to have all this traction and momentum. 

We are looking for experienced technical expertise in healthcare and to find candidates for our board with a vast healthcare network.

We want to join the MIT powerful network.

We would like to join innovative peers who understand the healthcare landscape.

We would appreciate any capital awarded throughout the oppurtunity. This would be an added bonus to the experience.

We are at a pivotal phase in company as traction has positioned us for success. The larger commitment from stakeholders to support underrepresented makes now the right time to fix what's wrong.

Solution. How it works…

We simplify coordination & procurement in one place using a cloud based solution. To streamline processes from hospital entry to patient follow-up. 

We curate insurance verified suppliers in marketplace providing a database of suppliers for prompt orders. giving more time back for patient care & staff self-care.

We compile data & analytics to guide long term results capturing overall wellness metrics and improving patient outcomes. Using technology to capture trends of potential rising risks leading to rehospitalization.

We bring interoperability that now is legally required to a space that never had it before.

In year one, We expect to be live with Eden Supportive Livings four locations for our pilot phase.

Then taking that proof of concept to our first Letter of Intent provider the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab for our first large enterprise client.

In years two through five we will then expand throughout the state of Illinois to all 24 alliance locations.

Along with the client expansion of rehabilitation and physical medicine location we will then take steps towards health systems partnerships and the long term goal is insurance provider relationships once we have the data showing our value.

How our company is measuring progress?

For Sales KPI’s, we are capturing two items: (1) Total Client Engagement, in which we capture how organizations we contact to add to our pipeline. (2) Total Client Pipeline, in which we capture how many organizations have provided LOI’s or expressed tangible interest in our product.

For Financial KPI’s, we are capturing two items: (1) Cash Flow, in which we build on our current avenues of capital into the business. We seek out targeted resources that can bring in dulitive and non-dulutive dollars. Some examples are angel investment, grants, accelerators, and venture capital. (2) Budget & Expenses, we focus on lean decisions to achieve our goals until as we prepare enter our pre-seed raise. 

For Marketing KPI’s. we are capturing two items: (1) Traffic, in which we capture engagements via social media from sites like Linked and Twitter. Also, we capture engagements from email outreach as well as introductions from a third party. (2) Conversion rate, in which we capture the ability to turn 

Health is not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. We believe when people with mobility impairments are able to get the proper support that improve their physical, mental and social well-being they will be able to fully participate in economic, cultural and political areas of life. Help us support their health journey.

We are using a foundation of enterprise software and then incorporating AI and Machine learning to support. The vast experience of our founder in engineering and healthcare technology allows us to understand the systematic pitfalls where our technology adds value. The ability to blend standard intelligence with artificial intelligence along with tools that support holistic patient care we are positioned for impact.

We built our prototype off research done by Northwestern University and the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab. It displays the need for our solution in the industry. 

Additionally, here is a link to the government change in the rules for information.

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Our founder is a African-American male with a physical disability that requires him to use a wheelchair. He understands the need to be inclusive and practice that in hiring when the time comes.

We are a B2B SaaS Business Model.

We provide a flexible and scalable solution to healthcare organizations for a cost of $350 a year / per staff user. Additionally, our supplier partners will provide our forcasted secondary revenue stream.

We've received support.

Startup Founded

February 2017.

Secured $3000 in Social Enterprise Funding. UberWAV. Non-Diluted

October 2018.

Secured $13000 in a Social Impact Grant. West Side United. Non-Diluted

January 2020.

Secured a Letter of Intent. The Shirley Ryan AbilityLab

February 2021.

Secured $7500 in an Impact Grant for Founders with a Spinal Cord Injury. Center for Cultural Innovation. Non-Diluted

July 2021.

Updating our Letter of Intent. The Shirley Ryan AbilityLab & Alliance partners.

September 2022.

Accepted into the Workbox Ventures Future of Work Accelerator.

May 2023.