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cyrusstoller / StartX-MedIC

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care coordination #3

Open yosemitebandit opened 11 years ago

yosemitebandit commented 11 years ago

paraphrasing what @cyrusstoller said in the email thread..

This would be software to help families make group distributions for their loved ones. For example: selecting (and then agreeing on) an assisted living facility. This tool would help people weigh financial decisions, and it would organize a family's conversations about the topic.

We'd generally avoid storing personal health info as care coordination is more about logistics and decision-making.

cyrusstoller commented 11 years ago

I think we can make a meaningful prototype that would help families weigh financial implications of care plans in ~48 hrs. There'd be a good breakdown of data-mining/cleaning/api work, back-end, front-end (d3?, css, and other js work).

No matter which idea we end up going with, we should make sure there will be fun things for everyone to hack on.

PS I agree with @yosemitebandit that we should try to avoid storing PHI if at all possible in whichever idea we end up going with.

cyrusstoller commented 11 years ago

This could be similar to HRA (health risk assessment) tools that measure things like heart age. Users would be able to tweak a bunch of parameters and see how it changes outcomes.

This service could make that process quick and easy by doing a lot of the research up front, so that asking a question is just a click away.

Here's a use case:

The user can say that a senior wants to continue living at home. We'd help the user come up with quotes/estimates for how much in home care would cost. And then we could use HHS data to guestimate the condition of the senior after that period of time and come up with estimates for how much it would cost to put the senior into assisted living and the odds of that senior still being eligible.

Referral opportunity:

This is an opportunity for us to help users find the assisted living facility that meet their needs and finances.

If the user wants to continue staying at home we can have done research on agencies for caregivers. It would probably be good to give families a sense of how often the caregivers turn over. Since that can be stressful if none of the senior's children live nearby.

Down the road this could also provide guides for things like: