In 2023, I partnered with a fellow UMKC med student, Brandon Park, to enter a Startup Pitch Competition. Our Startup was called “Home Vitals”.
The idea was simple: a one-stop shop for all Remote Monitoring Device (RMD) purchases.
Pain points:
1. there’s 5 different apps for 5 different products.
2. It’s not EHR integrated.
Solution:
1. One app for ease of use
2. EHR integration
3. Data-driven personalized guideline criteria.
One of my favorite healthcare quotes, that I find myself saying every couple of months, was born out of this project: “
“Currently, [outpatient] healthcare is a screenshot. It’s a still-image of a patient once every 3 months.
With remote-monitoring devices, it allows us to take a video. Where we can monitor their health data every week, or even, every day”
Using RMD’s we can get a better understanding of how the patient is doing outside of the confines of the doctor’s office.
In that same year, Stanford published a paper on Personalized Temperature Ranges. That paper stuck with me to this day, because I remember reading it and thinking: “we need personalized everything…!”
High BP is a great example of the ‘video-fication’ of biometric data. The gold standard instrument used to measure BP for research today is an ambulatory BP monitor— a wearable device that tracks your BP for 24 hours.