MediCircle addresses the two-sided problem of medical waste and healthcare disparities through pharmaceutical redistribution. Through our partnerships with specialty pharmacies and insurance companies, we collect leftover cancer medication. Once the medication arrives at our facility, our team of pharmacists, through the help of our FDA-supported technology, perform quality assurance measures and certify the medication. The medication is then redistributed to financially burdened patients, free of charge.
So many aspects of our lives are centered around convenience, why not healthcare? At Parami, our mission is to make getting a medical checkup as convenient as ordering a Lyft. Our aim is to create, ‘mobile hubs’ where patients would be able to get healthcare check-ups done any time or anywhere. Through our innovative data analytics and integration, we envision a more streamlined and data-driven healthcare system.
DocuHealth aspires to ease the burden of documentation on physicians and minimize taxing paperwork for patients. The software seeks to create a physician-directed H&P that tailors additional educational material to the patient’s appropriate language and health literacy level by integrating the patient chart into an EHR. By minimizing the time spent on note-taking, DocuHealth hopes to bolster more interpersonal conversations between patients and physicians.
With the US Census Bureau projecting that minority groups will make up more than 50% of the US population by 2050, these demographic changes call for increased attention to expanding healthcare access to our diversifying population. Our team aims to increase minority access to healthcare resources by connecting individuals with culturally-competent healthcare providers. We see cultural competency as something greater than just a spoken language: it encompasses an individual’s personal, socioeconomic, and cultural experiences. We envision our solution as an online platform for certifying physician practices as culturally-competent and for helping minority patients find a doctor that they can identify with so that they can receive the highest quality care possible. We are currently working with the Hispanic population of Rhode Island to evaluate what factors they value most in establishing a mutually beneficial relationship with their doctors.