August 28, 2013 ziPede Update
ziPede Update Given by Founder Dr. Rick Cuddihy
Benefits for Doctors:
- ziPede is for all doctors, nurses, dentists, orthodontists, therapists (PT, OT and mental health) and eventually pharmacists
- Allows doctors to easily collect, produce, organize and deliver the best health information to their patients
- Doctors now prescribe information as easily as they prescribe medications
- Clinicians can share content with colleagues
- Feedback loops let doctor know whether their patients viewed and liked information
Benefits for Patients:
- Friendly reminders motivate patients to view content
- Patients have personal accounts that organize and maintain all of their “prescriptions”, available for review anytime
Business Details:
- Fully secure and HIPAA compliant
- Market size: 2.2 M
- Clinicians pay $30 monthly subscription for service
- Free to all of a clinicians patients
- ROI: Full cost of providing a 4 page printed handouts 10 patients/day is $100/month. Less clinician & staff time needed to review health education, in exam room or on the phone. Ability to leave secure voice messages with patients without extended phone calls.
- Formats include PDF, audio, video, URL, and editable text files
Progress thus far:
- Launch: November 2013
- Funding 100K of 250K committed
- We have signed customers now and anticipate 100 prelaunch
- Developing relationships with local health care organizations now