Gabi SmartCare

Saving children's lives. 

Gabi SmartCare is on a mission to transform pediatric care.

Jonathan Baut, CEO and co-founder of Gabi SmartCare.

One in three children visits the emergency room each year. One in six hospital discharges concerns children. 50% of ER visits can be avoided (according to medical publications). 

Why? As babies can not express their symptoms and children can not translate them properly, parents struggle to report symptoms objectively and common diagnosis test are not suitable to the youngest... skewing the foundations of a reliable diagnosis. 

It is good to know that you build your immune system during the first years of your life. Therefore, it is essential to have reliable data that can avoid diseases and health conditions. If a device made for adults is used on children, data will not be really objective and reliable. This lack of objectivity can lead up to 40% of diagnosis errors and up to three years of diagnosis period delays. Those errors and delays can unfortunately create long-term health weakness and even incurable diseases. Not addressing these issues the right way means taking the risk to turn them into lifelong health issues.

Gabi SmartCare serves children and parents as well as doctors. 

The device was thought from a personal story. Jonathan's daughter suffered from respiratory trouble. After being hospitalized, she came back home and her parents had to monitor her. They realized that they were not properly equipped to do so in a safe and efficient way. That made Jonathan think about a new way to do this. Gabi SmartCare was born.

Before launching the start-up, the team really involved parents in order to understand their needs. We conducted a survey among 1000 parents, including face-to-face interviews in which we addressed the problems they were facing. It came out that 80% struggle to report symptoms objectively. We also had and still have beta-testers (children and adults) that constantly help us improve, day by day, our device. Families are involved in the process from the very beginning.

Gabi SmartCare is also in permanent contact with health care professionals in order to receive their feedbacks on the device, to develop new features, to obtain certifications, to lead clinical trials,... Physicians are involved in every process linked to the medical aspects of the solution.

Our solution will enable parents to better understand their child's symptoms and avoid unnecessary hospitalisations. It will also send data directly to physicians that will then be able to analyse and translate them, enabling an incomparable level of reactivity. Last but not least, our AI will be able to detect and prevent health issues. 

Gabi SmartCare will therefore provide a public good in the form of services, product and data. 

Gabi SmartCare will certainly have an impact on an underserved population : children. 

Babies and children with health conditions must be monitored and taken cared of when they are discharged from hospital. The only device that can currently do that is an invasive, remote-less device. This ECG solution works with electrodes that collect health data which are stored on an internal memory. The memory needs to be cleaned by a physician in a hospital. The physician is then able to interpret data and improve the treatment if necessary. You can imagine how this current solution is invasive for the child and how treatment adjustments are slow. 

Gabi SmartCare proposes a suitable, remote device worn on the child's upper arm. It also offers parents an easy-to-use solution so that they are able to understand their child's needs and contact the physicians in case of real emergency. Physicians have access to the data at all time, thanks to the cloud-based platform. Doctors are then able to make a hospital admission only if necessary and avoid unnecessary readmissions. 

To summarize, by monitoring babies and children under 5 at home with a tailor-made device, we want to improve transitional care and avoid hospital readmission. 

There are 655 millions of children under 5 worldwide.
251 millions of them visit the emergency rooms or are hospitalized each year. 
148 millions of admissions concern respiratory disorders. 

45 millions children - 8 millions children (EU+USA) at risk, 13 millions children (EU+USA) suffering from chronic conditions and 24 millions children (EU+USA) being observed in hospitals - have to be closely monitored by physicians and their treatments need to be reajusted. Nowadays, the only way to do that is to visit the hospital. Gabi SmartCare wants to avoid that! Not only is it hard on families but it also clogs up hospital. 

Gabi SmartCare could also be used to detects infectious diseases, to promote telemedicine and even to monitor health data during surgery! 

We are sure that our solution can change millions of lives and that it can improve and transform pediatric care. 

Gabi SmartCare will be the legal manufacturer of a medical device. Therefore, a quality management system following the ISO13485 needs to be implemented and details several main objectives for the company. Some of them may be described as follows:

- Ensure regulatory and normative review
The company has successfully been certified ISO 13485 last year and passed all internal and external audit to date.

- Inputs for future development:
The be sure to constantly develop efficient features, the company shall provide continuously a certain number and innovative ideas. This is consistently done by the team that developed a working product and has a pipeline filled with ambitious ideas (within software, data, AI…).

- Raising resources:
For the last 3 years, the company has managed to grow every year reaching a 7 member team. In addition, the Gabi SmartCare successfully performed 2 fund raising, allowing to pursue development and growth.

Participating at the Trinity Challenge is a great opportunity for our team as the competition rewards innovative health solutions that aim to change the lives of millions of people. This is exactly what we are aiming for too! 

Our ambition is to revolutionize pediatric care worldwide. To achieve this, relationships with key players in the healthcare industry are essential. While we already surround ourselves with European and American companies, doctors and hospitals, we believe that the members of the Trinity Challenge would help us to position ourselves professionally in health care. We could also be guided and advised by their knowledge and skills.

We are currently a team of 6 people. A 7th person will be hired in June 2021. Being finalists of the Trinity Challenge would therefore also be an opportunity to grow our team and thus allow our solution to be developed more rapidly and qualitatively.  

Finally, the prize offered to the winners would give us the means to develop our solution: development, production,...

To sum up, the Trinity Challenge could help us to reach our goal more quickly: to transform pediatric care on the one hand and to participate in the prevention of diseases on the other.