Smartphones as the Next Frontier in Medical Imaging, EMRs and Telemedicine
Tobin Arthur, President,
Cureus
John Steuart Managing Director, Co-Founder Claremont Creek Ventures
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What Does This All Mean?
Opportunity Galore in mHealth Early Adopters Focus on Non-Reimbursed
Business Models• Wellness: Consumer Pay (Cellscope, Fitbit)• Capitated systems: Kaiser & HMO (Cellscope, Gauss)• Innovative business models and providers (Walgreens,
Doc-in-a-box, Cureus)• Healthcare reform ACOs, outcome based
reimbursement (Tibion)
It’s All About Mobile Apps!
Medical Reference Tools Diagnostic Tools Patient Records Medical Education
Mobile Apps Benefit Patient, Provider and Payor• Better, Faster and Cheaper
Medical iPhone Apps Geared to Consumers, Physicians, Medical Students
But Adoption is Affected By Regulatory And Reimbursement
Other Business Challenges
Adjunct to reimbursement--underlying business models
Apps hoping for subscription feeds from providers and consumers
Physicians "free is not cheap enough" Patients: signal to noise ratio --very expensive
The Medical Publishing Revolution
Publishers Failed
Replicate print over web
Content behind pay-walls – **observe music and newspaper industries
Cureus
Revolutionizing Medical Publishing
Fast, FREE, authors reach millions not thousands We start w/ content, content, content Then address consumption – inefficient, fragmented and
sits behind firewalls
• Palo Alto, CA• Start-up (soft launch April 1)• Angel (prominent physicians and tech veterans)• Leverage Scribd (SEO & mobile benefits)• Team of 10 including 2 neurosurgeon founders
Cureus Metrics
Mobile Devices iPhone - 13% of visits iPad – 7% Misc Android – 4%
Browser Landscape Safari – 27% IE – 25%
* 3 years ago IE was 70%+
Design for Mobile
Build once – Cureus Tools• Twitter Bootstrap - responsive design• Scribd - document rendering – device agnostic
0 Second – 5 minute – 15 minute formatting
Mobile & Social are inextricably linked Crowd ➡
Wisdom for physicians (what’s important to know)
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