About our project
UPDATE 10/29/2013 – AVADO Bought by WebMD! We are very proud of our first Acceleration Services client! See the Press release here
Imagine a world where people can easily interact with their doctor and doctors are rewarded for helping patients navigate their way back to greatly improved health regardless of whether the doctor was physically with the patient or not. This is what Avado has done. In tandem with doctors, Avado is like a GPS for healthcare to help people communicate where they are in their health journey and the doctor guides them to full health.
UPDATE 03/04/2013 – Avado Raises 1 Million on Angellist! Geekwire Story here
UPDATE 10/15/2012 – Avado Selected as member of first NYeC Digital Health Accelerator Class earning 300,000 investment and pilot program.
Partners
One of the best part about a MedStartr campaign is that once 30,000 people watch your video, great stuff happens. Patients, providers, press, partners, funding and more come to you. Some incredible partners found, funded, and aided Avado in their meteoric rise. Here are a few they connected with during and just after their successful MedStartr campaign:
Want to learn how Avado went from great idea to fully funded and then bought by one of the biggest players in healthcare, read more here or Get Startd today!
How it Works
In three easy steps, a doctor can register, invite patients and easily start communicating with patients on a 1:1 or 1:many basis. First and foremost, this drives healthier patients and better outcomes. As a byproduct, Avado also helps physicians comply with Medicare and Medicaid programs that are driving patient engagement (“Stage 2 Meaningful Use” is an incentive program for providers and hospitals to use electronic health records). Avado Communicator is the entry level and is free.
Designed For Patients
At a time convenient to them, patients can do the following:
- Schedule appointments
- Request Rx refills
- Ask care-related questions
- Stay informed on the latest relevant information curated by their doctor
- If desired, have their doctor remotely monitor their health.
On top of that, it removes the annoyance of filling out the same forms over and over at various providers. Forms can be completed at home, on a mobile device or on a tablet/kiosk in the office.
Built for Doctors and Their Teams
In less than 30 minutes, MDs can implement the technology to address the patient engagement requirements of Stage 2 Meaningful Use at no cost. In the process, they are well positioned to successfully transition from the fee-for-service to the fee-for-value reimbursement shift that is rapidly taking place. In the fee-for-value world, communication is the most important medical instrument.
For Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) and other risk-bearing physicians, Avado will help you meet ACO goals for patient wellness not just in the visit, but between visits. Simple silo’ed patient portals don’t begin to address the demands of a fee-for-value world and lock the organization into one vendor harkening back to models common in the era of mainframes and Prodigy (i.e., one technology vendor from top to bottom rather than the superior Internet-based model of best-of-breed for front and back-end systems).
The Problems we Solve:
Avado is designed and built to solve the key problems for doctors and patients. We know the current experience is highly inefficient, summarized below:
Provider Pain Points Before Avado
- Expensive, complex software requiring ongoing software and hardware maintenance
- Mountains of paper & staff time
- Time-consuming phone tag
- Inability to remotely track health of patients between appointments
- Repeatedly responding to latest healthcare fad/scare questions
Patient Pain Points Before Avado
- Filling out the same forms over and over
- Difficult to schedule appointments
- Impossible to get MD on phone for Rx refills, quick questions, lab results
- Impossible to get discharge instructions
- Hard to get relevant up-to-date information related to illness
- Hard to obtain related summaries
Please see a demo of two of the features physicians and patients love the most at https://vimeo.com/45210719
What you can Do after your Doctor or your Practice begins using Avado:
- No need to deal with expensive (time & money) software installations & upgrades — all you need is an Internet connection & browser
- Ability to track health between appointments
- Stay informed of latest relevant information
- Fill out medical forms on patient’s schedule
- Schedule appointments and follow up
- Request Rx refills
- Access lab results
- Ask care-related and administrative questions
- Follow care plans
How Avado Helps Institutions
In addition to the provider benefits, institutions want to have a unified consumer experience for people in their community that spans all of the various EHRs in employed and affiliated medical practices as well as allied health professional that is easy to use (and won’t cost a fortune). With dozens of EHRs in a community, no patient wants multiple accounts to log into. Providers want to avoid silo’ed Patient Portal Prison. Avado, as an “untethered” PHR (we call it a “Collaborative Health Record” as it spans multiple providers and the individual) and communication tool enables your clinic, hospital, or other care center to engage with your patients and keep them healthier and better connected to your organization and your providers. See Community Health benefit in side column.
How Avado Helps Partners
EHR vendors: They are able to address a key requirement for customers to address Stage 2 Meaningful Use requirements without making the investment in engineering that allows them to leapfrog competitors still limiting themselves to silo’ed patient portals that are provider-centric.
How Avado Helps Biometric device makers:
Expand addressable market to the provider community without having to get involved in EHR integration. Integrate with Avado and never have to do another integration again! Join Fitbit and others connecting tracking between patients and providers.
Open to Other Ideas
Want to partner with us? Great! We are partner-centric. Propose a plan that makes sense here and let’s discuss how it will help improve the patient / physician experience. We look forward to continuing the conversation.
What your support will help us accomplish:
We have a great ability to stretch dollars. Before having taken a dime of outside capital or spending a dime on marketing, we’ve built a very complete Patient Relationship Management system that has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, NY Times and other industry publications. Avado was also a finalist in world’s most competitive startup competition — TechCrunch Disrupt. Our thought leadership has led to invitations to the White House, presentations before the head of Medicare and Pioneer ACOs. Now we’re ready to take the next step with your help.
The Avado solution is already up and works great, but we want to create the capability to connect to ANY biometric device and pass that information back to your doctor. Devices like FitBit, which measure activity, and the new AgaMatrix Glucose meter that connects to your SmartPhone are telling patients everything they need to know about their health. Wouldn’t it be great if their doctor also could read the data and react to it? By creating a way for all these devices to communicate with Avado, we will help patients and their doctors have meaningful conversations with the best data on hand – patient generated data. With 75% of healthcare costs being related to chronic conditions, maintaining active communication and connection between providers and patients is vital. Many chronic disease related flare ups can be avoided if health is being tracked properly. Avado is developing an API that will work for all devices. Your support makes this possible.
Exceeding our goal will allow us to move further/faster. Very few organizations have accomplished so much and built and shipped as complete of a product as Avado before having taken in any outside capital. We’ll remain innovative stewards of your financial support to stretch those dollars as far as possible.
When Will The Rewards be Available?
Rewards will be available immediately after the end of the campaign. Dates for consultations will be mutually agreed upon and will take place no later than December 15, 2012.
Our Team
Avado will be good stewards of your financial support
Even with limited resources, Avado has built a world-class team ideally suited to tackle this challenge. The following is a summary of the leadership team’s capabilities:
- Bassam Saliba (Co-founder & CTO): A serial founding CTO that has included a business sold for $1B. His technology leadership has led Avado to be selected in the most competitive startup competitions/showcases in the world including being a finalist in TechCrunch Disrupt and Health Datapalooza where Avado presented to the head of Medicare and Pioneer ACOs and some of the most influential leaders in healthcare.
- Dave Chase (Co-founder & CEO): Founder of the most successful technology platform business in healthcare (as head of Microsoft’s health platform business) and deeply experienced in healthIT having implemented or reviewed over 100 healthIT systems and worked in 25 different healthcare facilities from small rural facilities to inner city urban hospitals. Recently named one of the top 50 Most Influential people in healthIT (and only vendor), he’s been able to get coverage in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Forbes, Reuters and numerous healthcare industry publications all without Avado having spent a dime on marketing.
- Howard Luks, MD: Rated as one of the top sports medicine orthopedic surgeons in his region, Dr. Luks is also one of the pioneers in social media in medicine. This has resulted in his participation in the Mayo Clinics Social Media Advisory Board.
- Julie Braman, RPh, MBA: Julie was a practicing pharmacist and one of the pioneers (Group Health) in integrating pharmacists directly into primary care foreshadowing what is moving into the mainstream with Patient Centered Medical Homes (PCMH). Julie also was an Eli Lilly sales rep and was founder of Microsoft’s Pharmaceutical industry.
- Ted Epperly, MD, FAAFP: Dr. Epperly was the recent past President of the American Academy of Family Physicians. He also runs the Family Medicine Residency of Idaho and a family medicine clinic with 80 MDs serving 20,000 patients speaking 49 languages. He’s been a national leader in health reform and the PCMH. His just released book “Fractured: American’s Broken Health Care System and What We Must Do to Heal It” is receiving national attention.
- Thomas Tsang, MD, FACP: Former Medical Director for the Meaningful Use and Quality at Office of the National Coordinator for HIT. Dr. Tsang was responsible for rolling out Meaningful Use to the physician community.
- Wendy Sue Swanson, MD, MBE, FAAP: Recipient of the first-ever CDC Childhood Immunization Champion award, Dr. Swanson is a national leader in revolutionizing communication between health care providers and patients. She was the first MD to provide social media leadership of a leading hospital and is one of the most read and followed doctors in the country.
Thank you for your support. We look forward to working with patients and doctors everywhere to make Avado better everyday and engage everyone in their health.
Sincerely Yours,
Dave Chase
Founder and CEO
Avado.com
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