Energesse Pandemic Solution

1. Based on trials we've conducted in Australia, the problem we are solving is mitigating the risk of pandemic outbreaks and improving speed of response, to save more lives and minimise economic damaged. These problems are still prevalent and continuing to recur around the world during outbreaks and pandemics. 

2. Our solution is a web-based enterprise SaaS platform utilising a smart decision-support algorithm. It includes customizable risk assessment & planning dashboards as well as resource analytics & trend monitoring. 

3. Scaled globally, our solution will help governments, hospitals and help systems changes lives by mitigating future risks and outbreaks, thereby reducing the number of overall COVID cases from outbreaks, hospitalisations and economic damage from regional or national lockdowns.

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted over 7billion lives globally in one way or another i.e. health or economic consequences. 

The factors contributing to the problem that relate to the solution include: 

• There is significant complexity in appropriate outbreak response which leads to prolonged outbreaks and lockdowns costing over $100mil/ day to state economies     
• Standards & protocols changing daily & inaccessible causing staff anxiety and costly safety errors.
• Risks assessments are incomplete due to limited expertise & data.
• This also leads to inefficient distribution of scarce resources across hospitals and health facilities translating to shortages in staff, PPEs & beds and wastage.

What is it? 

PMme is a customised audit and decision-support tool for health and safety managers as well as teams. It is developing into a cloud-based solution that helps users identify gaps and strengths relative to best practices in pandemic preparedness and response as well as monitor progress of compliance actions. The product is aimed to provide world class Pandemic risk Management System for hospitals and health services, as well as other high-risk industries such as aged care centers and has won a global award from the International Hospital Federation

What does it do? 

The solution helps end-users with the following features & benefits:

What processes and technologies does it use? 

The process of developing the audit and algorithm is based on an excel-based 'rules engine' which contains our proprietary IP and framework on how to categorise the various aspects of pandemic management and map protocols, guidelines and best practices for solving risk gaps. These are core parts to the workflow of any emergency management teams in a state or national government, business or hospital.  

The platform technology is developed on Typescript programming language and is hosted on Microsoft Azure cloud server. 

Target population - who are they?

The target population our solution is aimed to meaningfully improve are all lives afflicted by the COVID-19 pandemic. In order to do this, we are first targeting in state health departments and regional governments. We are also in discussions with hospital and public health networks, aged care, individual hospitals and health service providers. 

In what ways are they underserved? 

Currently, the population as a whole is underserved in that healthcare systems does not have appropriate technology systems that systematically addresses the complexity of appropriate pandemic preparedness and response management when protocols and standards change almost everyday. This has resulted in outbreaks and lockdowns which have caused over 0.5 mil deaths in the US alone, mental health fatigue and economic strain threatening the livelihood of the general population. In the state of Victoria in Australia alone, the economic cost of a single day of lockdown is roughly AUD $100 million.

What are you doing to understand their needs and in what ways are you engaging them? 

At present, we have conducted trials with a metro hospital groups, local health network, ED facility as well as an aged care facility which all rated the tool an average of 9/10. We have also conducted research with with several Public Health Networks as well as stakeholders within several Australian State governments to further understand their needs to adapt the tool to their specific needs.

How will the solution address their needs?

Our solution addresses their needs through 4 key areas: 

1. Review pandemic response activities; map gaps, risks and monitor progress of action plans 

2. Save lives from evidence-based, best practices that improve outcomes 

3. Protect staff health and safety via latest recommendations 

4. Credible, strategic information needed to save valuable time, money and resources

The support is customised to a state or regional health system or organisations' COVID-19 pandemic scenario. Over time, this helps free up capacity to shift from reactive to proactive management of the pandemic.

The main problem we're solving is the healthcare systems' lack of a systematic approach of how healthcare providers can comply with the complexity of appropriate pandemic preparedness and response management when protocols and standards change almost everyday. It's humanly impossible to keep up. Our solution solves this by having a digital platform that regularly audits organisations' pandemic preparedness and response management and utilises smart decision-support algorithms, resource analytics & dashboard monitoring that aggregate cross-system data into actionable insights. This provides healthcare providers with the necessary tools and knowledge to optimally prepare, respond to outbreaks quickly and respond to them effectively.

We have developed a prototype stage because our product has been trialled at several sites in metro and rural Australia and received an award from the International Hospital Federation (IHF) regarding it as an international best practice in COVID-19 management globally. The solution has not yet been commercialised yet, however it does already contain several components ie.

INPUTS - survey questionnaire and system, data architecture, 

Rules engine, 

OUTPUTS - reporting design and formats as well as the academy feature (decision-support function). 

Sites This features have been validated in manual form with our trial customers (Heathcote Health, Victoria), Central Adelaide Local Health Network (South Australia), Metro North Hospital and Health Service (QLD) and Calvary Adelaide Emergency Department. Feedback ratings are an average of 9.5/10 from the first 4 trial customers across 4 states in Australia. 

Based on the initial trials we've conducted at 4 sites across 3 states and feedback we've received from over 100 pitches in the last 10 months, the PMme provides a significantly improved approach to the problem i.e. differentiated from existing audits or pandemic risk management tools in the following ways:
1. Our reports are more comprehensive compared to current tools they're using, it identifies more actions and areas of risk.
2. It's fit-for-purpose for pandemic safety management and developed with specialist knowledge from clinical, management and healthcare expertise, rather than general Occupational Health & Safety tools
3. It has a decision-support feature which better enables the user to receive recommendations that'll enable achievement of safety outcomes. Other tools usually only have an audit function which highlights gaps
4. It has a Provider Matrix feature that supports in recommending curated providers and digital solutions that users can acquire to support their gaps, key to solving risk areas.

The product is catalytic as it has shown to accelerate healthcare managers' ability to respond to pandemic related actions, reducing time from 7 days work to 4 hours (90% time savings). Secondary studies have shown a 7:1 ROI when organisations invest in preparedness vs response actions, which means for every $1 invested in prevention, it saves $7 in a reactive cure. 

As such, the results that we catalyse from our implementations in the prevention of virus escaping to the community has the opportunity to impact millions of lives as the solutions is implemented by governments in multiple countries. 

the current number of people we're serving - since the solution is still in its prototype phase, we can't put a number on current number of people we're serving at the moment. 

The number we'll be serving in one year will be 14 million lives, which is the combined population of the states of Victoria, New South Wales and Victoria in Australia.

The number we'll be serving in five years will be close to approx. 400 million billion lives as we achieve product market fit in Australia, USA, Singapore, Malaysia and 3-4 European Countries.

Specific measurable indicators of our solution and linked to Goal 3 on Good Health and Wellbeing. These include: 

1. Reduction in time to response to an outbreak
2. Reduction in number of COVID cases in the community from less outbreaks
3. Cost savings from a more appropriate response
4. User satisfaction rating of the product 
5. Reduced lockdown days from improvements in time to respond. 

We have an internal team of 5 executives on our Leadership Team that lead various strategic and operational aspects of the business. We have 8 people on our Advisory Board. 

We also work with about 10-12 subcontractors as needed for various operational functions. 

We have a diverse team that is collectively passionate about improving global health and resilient. 

Dr Avnesh Ratnanesan our founder & CEO is a retired Doctor with 25 years industry experience, Former Pfizer Senior Exec., 11 years tech entrepreneur experience with largest hospital & health insurance customers 

Michael Armitage our Government Adviser is the Former Minister of Health of South Australia. Experienced government and hospital business development expertise

Charles Janoras our Product Manager has 3 years experience in growth and co-developed Energesse award winning products 

Olivia de Guzman our Operations Manager has 5 years experience managing growth and award-winning platform implementations.

Aginic our Development Team have worked with us for 3 years working with Energesse on product development plus hospital and govt commercialization experience  

Tan Sri Wan Azmi/Nik Hanim our advisors and Investors (Half Moon Bay Capital) Malaysian private equity investors with financial expertise and established track record of high growth venture exits

Rob Antulov our advisor and shareholder is a Leading Australian tech advisor to start ups in health, media and entertainment

Darrell Mann our advisor and shareholder is an International tech product expert with clients including Apple, Samsung and multi-billion dollar revenue from product value creation

Danny O’ Connor our advisor and former customer is a Retired Chief Executive of Western Sydney Local Health District, $2bil per annum hospital group. Energesse customer for 4 years

Matt Riemann our advisor is an International health expert and entrepreneur with health SaaS products at over $50mil value

Our company has always held diversity as a key factor in our success. Our broader team is comprised of people from many racial backgrounds, genders and generation brackets, from 5 different countries i.e. Australia, Malaysia, Phillipines, UK and Chile. We offer equal opportunities for all with a focus on how we can optimise our skills in order to bring our vision into fruition.

One of our diversity goals is to ensure at least 40% gender diversity in our Leadership Team and we currently have a 50-50 men:women ratio, which we are very proud of. 

Another goal was to update our Values by co-creating them with our team which we spent several months working on and completing. This involves most of our team members and we have future plans to further integrate this into our training and on-boarding. 

We also have a strong mix of non-white and white team members, with at least 70% of our core team & Advisory Board being non-white. 

We want to become a Solver to primarily catalyse the reach and positive human impact that our product can have to millions of people all over the world, who are affected by the pandemic.

We believe the network of mentors and expertise provided within the Solve program will help us grow our team, reach more customers and more importantly enhance our product and its health and social impact on people's lives. 

In particular, the expertise and diversity from solve will help us understand and penetrate the US market as well as other international markets where we need help in distribution, localisation and market penetration. 

Human Capital - We need help in recruiting the appropriate level of human capital and expertise, particularly for the US and international markets. 

Business Model - need to understand the specific reimbursement pathways of hospitals

Financial - need help with refining our message and introductions to US and international investor network.

Public relations - we can develop our own messaging but need help refining for US & international markets

Product distribution - need help with gotomarket strategy development for US market as well as international market and channel relationships

Technology - need significant expertise in product leadership, Quality Assurance, product design and architecture as well as full stack development. 

We would specifically like to partner with MIT Faculty that work with hospitals in the Massaschusetts area, or faculty that work with other hospitals, particularly in relation to pandemic management or disaster medicine. They may hold roles in Emergency preparedness or within the business intelligence on IT departments of these hospitals. These would be very good pilot sites for our product and support validation and early commercialisation.  

In addition, we would like to be in contact with Faculty members who work with State Government health department, particularly in their Emergency Command Center, as that would also give us valuable feedback on our product and advance development. 

We would use the funds from this prize specifically to ensure improved safety and pandemic preparedness directly to support the health & well-being of people in the US by significantly improving the capability of state health departments and hospitals relative to emergency and disaster preparedness through the use of our pandemic management solution. This is a must-have for any hospital, health system and/or state interested in improving its capability to address outbreaks and future pandemics. 

This product has already received world class validation from the International Hospital Federation and should be made available in every state in the country to protect their safety, this prize will go a long way in assisting that goal. 

We would use the funds specifically to develop our product platform capability and product architecture to build AI technologies into the data analysis of pandemic related operational data for improved decision-making, quality of care and importantly improve speed in responding to outbreaks. 

With the additional funding, we can automate our current Rules Engine with AI to improved safety and preparedness by significantly improving the capability of state health departments and hospitals relative to emergency and disaster preparedness through the use of our pandemic management solution. This is a must-have for any hospital, health system and/or state interested in improving its capability to address outbreaks and future pandemics. 

This product has already received world class validation from the International Hospital Federation and should be made available in every state in the country to protect their safety, this prize will go a long way in assisting that goal.