Accessible health care for everyone
No health care system is an island
I believe if we could predict the future, we may accomplish less mistakes. In the last few years I've talked to many people in the US, and many of them told me they usually refuse to undertake regular medical checkups because of the high cost of health care. I believe that has been fine for most of them. But on the other side there is for sure a niche which could have benefit from taking a visit and preventing an upcoming disease. Two years ago a friend of mine went to his physician for a checkup, and he told the physician his hands and his feet were colder than they used to be. The physician, maybe used to listen about more significant symptoms, quickly visited him and told he was okay. A month later my friend went to the hospital because he couldn’t breathe well, and he has been diagnosed with a heart infection, which strictly limited his life since then. This episode motivated me to take actions. I first hoovered what I could possibly do to fix this bug and over these last years I came up with this solution: I want to give people the chance to monitor their body through synthetic biology and the internet applied to our physical body. By adopting this method, we can save a lot a lives of all ages and the health care system would save a lot money by wasting less. Curing a patient when he is in an advanced stage of a disease is much more expensive than curing him at the beginning of the disease stage. I personally study data science and I thought about the potentiality of having an algorithm which analyses data taken from patient body in real time. The algorithm is trained to work on anomaly detection. Once the algorithm finds one of it, it won't immediately cure the patient, but it will at least warn him about anything going wrong. I want to dedicate all of myself in improving the health care system, and I'm grateful to you willing to help me improve it in such a way.
- Coordination of care
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Our solution is nothing but a clever use of technology for social good. By breaking down the complexity of the body into its fundamental components, we want people to have a chance to monitor and receive feedback about their body in real time without attending an expensive visit at a physician office
- Adult
- Male
- Female
- Urban
- Lower
- US and Canada
We planned reaching our first customers as those who need health care support. Initially only patients will be able to detect their current health care situation. In the meantime, we’ll work to sensitize physicians to consider our solution (we already had good responses from many physicians). Then, once both sides, i.e. patients and physicians, will be onto the system, we expect them to grow in tandem, and at that point everybody will eventually understand the full potential of our application
Technological progress evolves much faster than human beings do. But aside from it, we are working hard to sensitize people about the benefits we all can withdraw from better health care. We are a small team and our impact is somehow limited due to our small size compared to health care system. I believe Solve can help us a lot to resonate our mission. If we send the message of a betterment of humanity, physicians and organization can start thinking about our solution as a tool to improve millions if not billions of lives rather than an enemy.
I personally perceive most people are skeptic to change, especially when they have all that needs to survive. This let us imagine about how many physicians might not be initially very willing to accept working with tools never seen before. This is why we applied to Solve. Solve aims to break down barriers among communities to facilitate communication and this is what we are actually looking for. I think the purpose of our project coupled with your help and leadership enhance a lot the real value proposition of this project.
- Organizational Mentorship
- Technology Mentorship
- Connections to the MIT campus
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