Startup Idea: Healthcare Information Management Software for Special Needs Clinics
I work as a Residential Manager for NY Upstate Cerebral Palsy, we take care of children and teenager residents who suffer from different levels of autism and other psychological and physical issues which the families are unable to deal with on their own.
These kids live with us and are under our 24/7 care, they only leave the clinic to go home during holidays or under the discretion of the parents. As you can imagine, the parents often visit in order to see how their kids are doing, how they are being taken care of and what treatment they are undertaking.
The problem is that those visits often cause many residents to go into behaviors and it disrupts an otherwise calm environment. Because of this, I think it would be fantastic if we had a software which the parents could access in order to see general information about their children, so they wouldn't need to go to clinic personally so often.
The information in the software would be updated by the professionals who take care of the residents and the parents would have full access to it anytime, although they wouldn't be able to edit the information there. The software would show daily updates on their children such as if they had any behaviors, what their mood is and if they made any special requests, as well as other information like their current weight and what treatment they are currently undergoing.
This would benefit many clinics like the one where I work at since constant parents visits clearly disrupts our environment, and the only reason why they visit so often is because they can't see information about their children in any other way.
It would be a simple, yet very informative software.