KinChip Systems - Simply Smarter Care

1 in 6 children have a developmental disability, with an estimated 15% undiagnosed. Children living in the most socio‐economically disadvantaged areas are 4.1 times more likely to be developmentally vulnerable than others.

KinChip Systems simplifies care, by linking families to the health education and social services needed, to improve child development outcomes.

Our award winning Kindom platform provides one simple secure place for families to store health, education and social information and securely share that information with anyone in the care team.  Using this information, families can gain oversight into their child’s development over time, and access quality resources personalised to their specific needs.

Incorporating peer support and social services, we use machine learning to help families navigate to the right support at the right time, highlighting potential developmental delays to facilitate early diagnosis and intervention. 

Our consumer centric approach, empowers parents, builds in-family capabilities and reduces inequities.  

1 in 6 children have a developmental disability, with an estimated 15% undiagnosed. The impact of delayed intervention is substantial.  For example, the additional cost of caring for an individual with autism may exceed $2M over a lifetime. The cost of care can be reduced by 2/3 with early diagnosis and intervention.

Children living in the most socio‐economically disadvantaged areas are 4.1 times more likely to be developmentally vulnerable than others and there is a 90-100% chance of developmental delays when a child experiences 6-7 risk factors.

However, with child development services siloed between health, education and social services, many children fall through the gaps, fail to get diagnosed or don’t get the help they need when they need it.

According to the WHO, 75-90% of health outcomes are impacted by ‘social determinants’ which include genetic makeup, social, economic and environmental factors and, in the case of children, parental capabilities.  

Action on the social determinants of health (SDOH) is seen as one of the most appropriate ways to address health inequalities. However, collecting comprehensive data on SDOH, and then acting on that information, is complex when it includes areas outside the reach of healthcare payers and providers

Our target population group are new parents and parents of children with complex needs. With an initial focus on the Australian population, we continue to attract interest internationally.

The Kindom™ solution and product design is the result of three years of qualitative and quantitative market research as well as MVP testing and feedback.   Alongside extensive consumer consultation and engagement, research has included consultation and feedback from Paediatricians, Child Health Nurses, General Practitioners, Speech Pathologists, Occupational Therapists, Psychologists, Community Organizations, Researchers, Teachers and Technology Providers. 

We’ve engaged co-design processes to inform our platform’s design and development including with: 

• The West Australian (State Government) Child and Adolescent Community Health Services, 

• The Australian Digital Health Agency

• Telethon Kids Institute  

• Kalparrin, a charity supporting parents of children with complex needs operating within Perth Children's Hospital. 

Primary concerns for all groups include inability to share information securely across services, no ‘single source of truth’, or prompt if your child is developmentally delayed, or portability of solutions between payers or regions, difficulty navigating around the ecosystem and trying to find the right services at the right time.

Our solution addresses all these key challenges.

KinChip Systems’ lead product, Kindom™, links health, development and social services for families,  helping them to navigate to the right service at the right time for their specific needs. Incorporating peer support and social services, we facilitate emotional well-being alongside physical health. Our consumer centric approach, empowers consumers, and reduces health inequities by building in-family capabilities and improves health literacy and health behaviours.

Aggregating and de-identifying Kindom ™ data, KinChip Systems provides robust and comprehensive predictive analytics to payers to improve outcomes, manage risk and inform service planning and delvery.  Our consumer engagement and health promotion capabilities further ensure improved health outcomes and reduced costs.  

We've co-designed Kindom™ with the West Australian Government's Child and Adolescent Community Health Services and been working alongside the Australian Digital Health Agency to integrate with Australia's national ehealth record.

We have active collaborations with research and community organisations around Australia to leverage Kindom ™ for pilot projects and child health research.

KinChip Systems’ industry/research collaborations provide an opportunity to leverage its unique data sets to inform innovative research and provide access to specific patient populations for clinical trials and spin off technologies.

Our current solution is extensible and scalable and designed for government and healthcare customers.  It is built on API infrastructure that is FHIR capable to facilitate interoperability across the healthcare sector.

How it works

Parents upload and store their family’s health, education and social records into the Kindom™ platform. Information is entered manually or drawn automatically through integrations with systems such as My Health Record.

Using this information, Kindom™’s algorithms and in-built machine learning capabilities, provide families personalised decision support, in-app screening and recommendations of relevant resources, including peer and community support, specific to their child’s stage of development.  

The value of each family’s kindom grows exponentially over time, as the more information they upload into Kindom™ the more personalised the result.

Our solution is innovative because we deliver one holistic solution for families to manage their health and wellbeing that is portable and independent of payer, provider, region or device.   We empower our users by linking them with timely and relevant resources and offer pathways to personalized health.

To ensure we reach the most disadvantaged in our community, we link families to support from peers and local community groups that understand the challenges and fears they may be experiencing. 

In doing do, our consumer centred solution, breaks down silos between health, education and social services capturing quality dynamic data across the social determinants. 

By developing Kindom™ to leverage social determinants of health, be geographic, payer and provider agnostic and to solve a customer problem, we can capture richer longitudinal and relational data sets.

Kindom™ has been built using a robust, fully extensible and scalable infrastructure that is capable of large scale deployment.  It is built on a Microsoft stack, .Net Core,and we use Microsoft Azure hosting to meet the requirements for health and government customers. 

Built with interoperability in mind, Kindom™ has an API driven infrastructure that is HL7 and FHIR (Fast Health Interoperability Resource) capable with full in-app customer support and CRM established.  It is built for accessibility with multi-lingual and multi-regional capabilities

Kindom™ adheres to the Australian Privacy Act. To address strict privacy and security requirements around sensitive health information, we have adopted Privacy by Design from the outset and a security strategy informed by ISO 27001 certification with data encrypted at rest and in transit.

Kindom™ works with open APIs for devices and apps that efficiently provide quality information and insight about the specific family’s developmental health needs. The information can be collected from a variety of sources such as wearable devices, medical instrumentation, eHealth records, regulatory approved medical apps or manual entry.

At risk families who use this platform will be provided with resources and support in time to mitigate or reduce risk factors leading to developmental delays by 30%.

Families using the platform will be able to identify developmental delays 6 months to 2 years earlier, achieving better outcomes overall and potentially saving the family over $1m in additional costs over a child’s lifetime.

Taking a whole person approach and linking families to peer and community support early in their journey may reduce cost of care by more than 40%.

We can facilitate rapid and quality clinical trial recruitment from our consumer database. 37% of clinical trials fail to recruit enough participants with an average loss of US $8m per day for a block-buster drug releases.

Our unique solution captures longitudinal and relational data across the social determinants.  Using this aggregated and de-identified data, we can provide dynamic and unique insights to inform research and population health initiatives.

One full time staff member and seven contractors.  Two of which will become full time once next funding round is secured.

We have an award winning and internationally experienced team, across health, government, informatics and child development, with proven commitment to patient centred solutions and improving child development outcomes.    

CATHERINE RESNICK: Founder|CEO  - 

Entrepreneur, Clinical Psychotherapist, Senior exec health, youth, disability. 

JUNE TABADERO: CTO  

25 years global experience   - Former MVP Microsoft Azure 

GRY STENE: Founder | Advisor: Product and Technology

30 years experience software engineer. 

TIM BLAKE:  Health Informatics Advisor and Consultant 
Former CIO Tasmanian State Government,  Advisor to Australian Digital Health Agency.    

ELSA JORDAAN PhD: Data Scientist.  
20 years data science experience.

Dr ALEX MARTINUIK: Child Development Consultant Researcher

GRAINNE MCCARTHY: Content and Engagement. 

KinChip Systems delivers solution right across the care continuum.

For families, we provide one app to oversee their health and family's development and link to peer and community suppor

We put community knowledge to work by creating secure environments for communities to discuss and share solutions with members.

For payers, we break down systemic silos so healthcare can be more than just doctors and patients – delivering whole person care.  Through health promotion and engagement capabilities, we build health literacy and improve treatment compliance.  Aggregating and de-identifying data we can provide predictive analytics to improve outcomes, manage risk and reduce cost.

For researchers, we provide an engaged cohort to engage in clinical trials and patient reported outcome surveys.

Our Kindom™ solution delivers multi-tiered revenue opportunities across the care continuum - customised to each region’s healthcare system.

Payers pay per life managed for data and predictive analytics, health navigator and health promotion activities.

Research organisations pay per clinical trial recruit and patient reported outcomes surveys.

Community organisations access solution on a freemium basis, with annual subscriptions scaled to size of organization and feature set utilised.

Families access platform for free, facilitating widest possible adoption and ensuring access to even the most disadvantaged.

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We know the problems we are seeking to solve are universal and we are keen to work and co-design with strategic partners who share our passion in the United States. 

Our solution offers the best chance of success in a region with good existing relationships between payers, providers and local community partners, or a vertically integrated healthcare system. 

Our intention is to initially focus on one region at a time, to ensure the solution maintains a hyper local and connected feel.

We are seeking community and payer partners who are keen to co-design and champion our solution for their region.