HEARDIO
Medical Pill Enclosure device
Problem Statement:
Although modern medicine is effective in fighting disease, their full potential is often not recognized because about 50% of patients do not take their medications as prescribed. Factors contributing to poor medication adherence are endless and encompass those that are related to patients (e.g., negligible knowledge on health literacy and insignificant involvement of the patient in the medical treatment decision process). Those that are related to physicians (e.g., The prescribe complicated drug regimen, with not much follow up creating a communication gap and patient uninformed about side effects of the medication). causes numerous problems such as Drug overdose and medicine noncompliance that has dramatically impacted the United States over the last decade. In 2016 marked the highest deaths related to drug overdose, as well as the paramount economic blow of over 300 billion dollars spent on patient noncompliance and medication misuse. While smart bottles have been developed to simplify dose tracking and medication taking, the current designs in the market for preventing drug sharing and noncompliance are expensive or extremely consumer-unfriendly.
Value Proposition:
Medical Industry has generally used a bleak solution to ensure that this adherence issue is dealt with by informing the patient when they pick up the medication about how he or she is supposed to consume the medication and what will be the side effects of the patient not adhering to the medication. But in spite of this, the problem remains unsolved. The patients still end up missing 50-60% of their drugs. The Problem remains unresolved.
My team of engineers and scientists have come up with a non-traditional solution. Unlike any other, solution Heardio is going to bring to the market a revolutionary medical pill dispenser that dispenses the right dosage to the right person at the right time. Unlike, other medical pill bottles and solutions available in the market that only focus on reminding the user about taking the medication. This new recyclable innovation ensures that no one but the user tampers with the medication. It also keeps giving a reminder to the user who makes the drug. The dispenser is connected to a mobile application on your smartphone, to remind you as well as assist the user in taking the medicines via using the fingerprint sensor located on the smartphone, can either be used on the cell phone or the bottle itself to unlock the container, making sure no one but the user can use the medication. Heardio will take taking medical adherence to the last pill level.
This amazing technology will work toward minimizing the giant adherence loophole we have in any line of treatment, as consistency is the key to success.
HEARDIO AND IT’S APP LOGO
The Solution:
Heardio is a medical pill dispensing system consisting of a smart bottle and mobile app to allow patients to receive the correct dosage at the right time. The unique “one-dose” dispensing mechanism and auto-lock functionality of the bottle, paired with medication tracking features of the app, allows for total medication adherence.
Market:
Based on the facts our current market focus is enhancing medication adherence in a niche market of post-surgery, heart failure geriatric population. This market is about 300K. As of now but we plan to diversify into medication adherence in the future.
Stakeholders:
- Patient & Family
- Consumers directly affected by medication adherence issues.
- Pharmaceutical companies
- Increase in medication adherence will increase sales
- Pharmacies
- Have knowledge in proper adherence critical care medications to aid their patients
- Hospital:
- Increase in adherence will decrease patient rehospitalization, decreasing hospital costs and penalties associated with readmittance.
My Contribution: I developed and engineered the pill enclosure for critical care patients for better medication adherence, by discussing the product design with a team of engineers, focusing on design criteria to better suit patient’s needs. In order to complete this project, I collaborate with a team of Entrepreneurs from the Healthcare and Pharmacy Business Management field for the commercialization of the product. I was mentored by Mr. Pritam Advani.
I also performed customer discovery, created a business and financial model for a startup as well as developed the Auto Cad models of the project. Had regular product progress presentations and final investors pitch.