updates
Abhi
Hope you are doing good.
Submitted our idea for Pan IIT business plan contest. We have to wait to hear for next steps. Regional round is on Oct 25th.
Met Dr. Kala in Boston, we had a good meeting and there were some fresh perspectives discussed.
Breast cancer is the only cancer type that can be managed and prevented early.
There are three important ways that can help prevention and early detection
- Early Detection via Mammograms
- Prevention (Identify high risk category)
- Exercises (atleast 3 times a week)
"Women take care of others, it is important to take care of them !!" … our message via platform to men and women.
Mammograms (tests) can be expensive, which is one of the reasons why medication and early detection can get unaffordable and stressful. Tests and medications for US citizens are covered under Obamacare - Health insurance for all. But depending on the risk factor, insurance can vary.
In US, unlike India Healthcare is driven by insurance and not hospital networks. So it is in the interest of consumers and insurance providers to bring down the risk of breast cancer and if there can be an incentive for the consumers to adopt preventive measures and increase awareness.
Our app should aim at helping insurance providers and consumers -- in a way that we drive prevention by providing a score based on parameters from -- regular tests after certain age, monitoring key labs measures, monitoring exercise routines, providing information that is easy to access and consume, enable vendor reviews for informed decisions on physicians, doctors, alerts and notifications based on their transactions, doctors visits, etc and from other activities on social forums.
Other imp thing is , Are you paying the right insurance? Our score can help determine the right insurance for consumers thereby saving hundreds of dollars for both consumers and insurers.
In India, Mammogram test can get very expensive. MRIs are a good way to detect initial stages of cancer (lump tests etc). The approach for Indian market will be different -- would be via hospital networks and not insurance providers. There is a huge need for our platform in India.
With our app aims to address the following:
- Awareness and Knowledge about breast cancer
- Easy and guided access to right information
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Early detection and prevention
- Am I paying the right insurance? Leverage Big Data & Data Science to build a score that can be used to insurers and consumers
- virtual collaboration and community building
- Informed decisions about insurance, doctors, counselors,
- Proactive measures to adopt prevention and management - alerts, notification