CarePod: Decentralizing Primary Care
GoForward
Problem Statement:
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Primary healthcare is very much centralized and inaccessible to a vast section of the world
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Access is also limited by the lack of clinicians and the abysmal patient to clinician ratios
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Increasing the number of clinicians solves the problem linearly i.e. for every clinician you add, you can only serve ‘x’ number of people (# of patients served = n*number of clinicians).
Hypothesis:
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Much of the primary healthcare infrastructure does not need to be locked behind large centralized locations
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The ‘Point of Care’ can be closer to the patients
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The impact of a clinician need not be linear, it can be exponential (# of patients served = n^[number of clinicians])
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Separating and multiplying the ‘hands’ of a clinician from the brain of a clinician increases impact
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This can be done if clinicians can ‘codify’ their decision making and scale it using software to the point of delivery.
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Traditional primary healthcare center
Primary healthcare with CarePods
Images of the CarePod
Systems I Designed