SMARTCharts

1. Patients cannot easily access and understand therapeutic data post-injury, diagnosis or disease. Current platforms provide jargon-rich, text-heavy reports and progress reports.

2. Electronic medical records were not built for therapeutic rehabilitation. They are cumbersome, time-consuming and create unstandardized data that is not transferable between organizations and care settings, at the expense of the patient.

SMART Charts is an EHR add-on, that automates clinician documentation and visualizes progress to motivate the team to better health outcomes.

The MVP product demo video is here (2022):
https://drive.google.com/file/...

Our BETA product will incorporate NLP to extract data from progress notes to refine ML models so we can create AI-powered rehabilitation POCs that are based on patient demographics (diagnosis, severity, age, biometric chart data, etc.). 

SMARTCharts empowers patients to engage in and understand their care journey in speech, occupational and physical therapy settings. The patients we strive to support include every single one of us, as we all know someone who has had speech or physical therapy for diagnoses including cancer, speech delays, Alzheimer's, heart attack, and the list goes on... 

Our goal is to remove the back box that rehabilitation feels like and support both patients and their care teams understand what they are working on, where they are in the betterment process and what it means to their ultimate outcomes. We want to be rehabilitation storytellers. 

I am a daughter, patient and clinician who has faced this problem in my personal and professional life. My mother had a stroke when I was three, I had multiple knee surgeries, and this past year, my brother suffered a TBI. All of these events informed my desire to understand and better communicate rehabilitation gains. In the current state, with current tools, we as patients have barriers to accessing data at the worst, most difficult times in our lives - during diagnosis, disease and injury - which inhibit us from making crucial gains throughout our betterment process. My ultimate goal as a clinician and an entrepreneur is to help all patients access their data regardless of age, diagnosis, SES, native language and education level.

Corinne Vargas - Founder & CEO | Actuary turned speech-language pathologist with 15+ years in data analytics and clinical applications.

Monica Navas - CPO | Orthopedic physician, data-scientist and experienced startup CPO.

Justin Hedrick - Full stack Developer | Application development in regulated industries.

The SMARTCharts team is poised to scale this business because we know how important it is to everyone with a loved one who has faced uncertainty when entering rehab after diagnoses including MS, stroke, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, Autism and even routine orthopedic surgeries. We use this as fuel, especially on those hard days, to continue to push the healthcare system toward innovation.

The current methods for communicating progress in rehabilitation therapies like speech, occupational and physical therapy are progress notes in jargon-heavy progress notes and verbal reports. Clinicians need better tools, and we know that people retain 4x the information they can over what they hear and read. 

We produce progress information in visible ways so that even kiddos can celebrate progress on their goals by watching towers build, sprinkles fall and, for adults, those rings close. 

We hope to impact this massive space in healthcare that is often o overlooked to help patients get motivated by their own data, their own progress. We hypothesize that patients will get better faster, achieving ultimate outcomes and reducing readmissions, surgeries and other injuries. 

We aim to be the communication tool used by all clinicians and allow them to easily determine the efficacy of new therapies and treatments as well as enable them to compare their patient's progress to demographically appropriate norms. 

Our goal is to help patients of all ages get better faster by making data accessible and motivating. WE look to promote finishing therapy which results in optimal outcomes, better quality of life and healthy projections. 

We use therapeutic progress note data to inform our proprietary ML models. From there we will use outputs to create plans of care that are AI-generated and specific to patient demographics.   

We use de-identified data. We assign unique identifiers, stripping personal information from the inputs and model progress components. This means we can assign components back to the demographic information, removing ties between individuals and the data submitted. 

We are also working toward SOC II certification. 

We aim to increase patient therapeutic rehabilitation completion rates by 10%. We hope to decrease stats that estimate 70-90% of rehabilitation patients do not finish their plans of care. We believe that if we can SHOW them their progress, they will believe in the process and achieve better outcomes.

3 Full-time, 5 part-time, 4 advisors 

12 years informally: Conceptualized while I was in grad school in 2011. 

4 Years CEO - Full MVP in 2020. 

<1 Year CPO - joined in 2023.

4 Years - Tech team since 2022. 

Our FT team is 100% minority and 100% female. We plan to continue to bring diverse voices onto our team, as it is our goal to make a product that is accessible to patients and care teams of all backgrounds. We believe that diversity fuels innovation that works for all of us. 

We validated the product need in the small and medium-size business markets. We are releasing our enterprise version this year, where we have secured, and continue to secure, pilots. 

Our pilots are with strategic partners in areas of healthcare that have significant needs to support diverse patient populations. We have aligned with organizations looking to provide elevated care while increasing profitability and are using health record systems that have market reach. By doing this, we will ensure our product works and leverage our builds to reach customers using the same products.  

Our financial model informs us that financial sustainability can be achieved in 2024. We plan to raise a seed round post-pilot completion to set the groundwork for product development needs going forward. 

When we deliver our value proposition to our pilot partners, we will use these outcomes to land and expand with systems and organizations on the same platforms to control expenses while growing our revenue base. We will continue to grow at a moderate pace to support all new platform opportunities and work to partner with forward-looking healthcare organizations into the future.

Our average per month is ~17K at our current talent and operational levels. Given security requirements, additional talent needs required to support current opportunities and product build support we estimate we will need $900K for the next year to support our aspirations for next steps.  Approximately, 60% of that will be spent on human capital. 

$100K will allow us to deliver on two open pilot opportunities and enable us to get into Q2 of next year so that we can meet milestones. Our milestones include refining our product and ML models to inform AI and iterate data sets to begin POC generation for testing in clinics with 60+ clinicians supporting 2,200+ Medicaid/care patients. 

We will have preliminary efficacy and outcome data to support opportunities to get additional pilots and contracts. This will allow us to raise the remaining amount to continue to grow the team and the product. 

The cure residency experience would provide us with much-needed funds to stay afloat and deliver on our current pilot opportunities. As we work, we would leverage the mentorship and programming to ensure we are problem-solving with experts and learning best practices as we grow. The physical space would be a great bonus as half our team resides in NYC, and we would use it to network, share our learnings and learn alongside other great startups going through similar challenges.