Our venture called safeosafe.com is a unique solution for people suffering from Epilepsy, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease. During our lifes we have met a lot of problems that not only directly affects people suffering from these diesases, but also their families, doctors and clinics that are helping them. The important thing for us was to divide those problems in three groups:
1.Problems that directly affect patients:
-They don’t know when, where and why an epilepsy attak or psychomotor
hyperactivity can occur. It means that they live in a constant fear
because they can’t predict when to take medicin or lay down. To save
themselves.
-They need to be constantly on the lookout. It means
that they always have to ask somebody to drive them or to go with them
to the places like clinics and hospitals.
-In those hospitals and
clinics they need to do a series of medical examinations that are only
testing them during the same range of emotions and situations. It means
that those examinations don’t show exactly how our brain and our diesase
affects us during their everyday life. After those examinations doctors
often can’t say what situations or emotions can lead to attacks, thats
why the treatment isn’t as effective as it could be and those
unpredicted attacks can lead to serious brain damage.
-Those problems are affecting over 130 milion people all over the world.
2.Problems that affect patients families:
-They need to constantly look after their suffering siblings. This is
such an important problem, because in US help provided to people
suffering only from Alzheimer’s took more than 18.5 bilion hours care
were provided by
Alzheimer’s caregivers in 2018, a contribution to the nation valued at nearly $234 billion.
-They often have to resign from their carrer development because the
time that they would spend on it is given to help their suffering
relatives.
-The biggest problem for parents of children suffering
from epilepsy is that they can’t even sleep, because they are afraid of
possible attacks that their children can have. During our research we
also found out, that those parents can’t focus on their work or personal
life because of this fear.
3.Problem that affects clinics:
-Space in the clinics is limited and the problem is that in the most of
them visits are unnecessary. According to one of the biggest Polish
Epilepsy Therapy Center only 10% of the visits need to be done
stationary in the clinic. Rest of the visits don’t require phisical
contact with doctors. It is not only a waste of time of patients but
also a problem for the clinics that doesn’t allow clinics to develop.
What we are?
The main assumption of the venture is to provide a simple solution for people suffering from these serious diesases and their families to live a normal life. We also wan’t to help clinics to develop and give their patients a better treatment.
What is our plan to solve this problem?
We
want to solve this problem by developing a bracelet that can monitor
brain activity and phisical activity of the user 24 hours a day and
software that analyzes collected biomedical data and send it directly to
doctors. They can base their treatment on it. The software will also
call for help if an abnormal activity is detected and inform the
caregivers about the situation of their relatives.
The software is able to detect epilepsy attack or pyschomotor hyperactivity in real time or short time before it occurs.
Our planned activities and what we have right now.
As
far as we know we don’t need to have a medical certificate on this
product. We only need to report it as a medical device which will be
much easier and requires not as much money and time as certificating a
device. Our hardware product isn’t also hard to build. We don’t need to
design our own engineering because we can build it from already existing
medical sensors. We only need to compress them and put it in a bracelet
which also isn’t hard and we know how to do it.
When it comes to
the software, in the final vision we plan to build 2 apps, one for
clinics and other for the patients and their families.
We are far away from this plan right now, because we don’t want to build such a serious hardware product without having clients. Right now we are developing an app which will allow patients to easily talk to the doctors in clinics. According to the data metioned before, only 10% of the visits need to be done manually neverthless almost 100% of them are done that way. It will be a less time consuming option of having an appointment with a doctor and also a chance for the clinic to have more clients and develop faster. We not only offer the app to the clinics for free but we also want to find a business cooperation partner with who we can implement our bracelets in the future. Our offer is very attractive for them, because we have a very high chance of participating in e-pionier NCBiR programme, which is going to cover 80% of the cost up to 1mln PLN as soon as we find the first client that wants to use our solution.
We have built a landing page to validate if the patients would want to use our solution. We collected over 150 e-mails from only people suffering from epilepsy in 12 hours that want to create accounts and use our solution instantly. So we started to develop this app and we plan to finish it at the end of January. During this time we also want to find doctors and clinics that will be in our app. If the idea will prove itself we will transform this app in our final product with already existing client database and doctors/clinics.
We are looking for business cooperations in medical field. We want to contact with that have experience in telemedicine. We also are looking for any kind of investors or people who want to share their knowledge and experience with us. We are open for having contact with clinics and scientific field, doctors etc.
Presenter:
Mateusz Cyran
SafoSafe
