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Because SeniorLink is impacting seniors on a one on one basis, and because it is a service business, our impact is not measured on a large scale, similar to completing a project. Rather, success is based on effectively helping seniors one at a time. Our success is relatively basic- assist as many seniors as possible while still making a profit.

Our long term goal is to add additional tutors and grow SeniorLink from a small organization to one that it more mechanized in terms of scheduling. Ultimately, my goal is that SeniorLink will thrive on its own after I graduate high school and leave for college.

Success is measured is a variety of ways. Obviously, SeniorLink has been successful to date in that significant revenue has been generated by its services. Based on our current business model, I am confident that more revenue can be generated as tutors and customers are increased.

More importantly, I measure success based on the impact that SeniorLink is making with specific customers. The opportunity that seniors have to connect with their children and grandchildren and enjoy the benefits of technology is the real measure of success. The aptitude of seniors in using the computer varies greatly, but I have found that after a series of lessons, it is rare that the senior does not enjoy the experience.
Success can be measured by witnessing increasing desire of seniors to expand technology knowledge. SeniorLink has had some measure of success as it has witnessed advancement among its clients.
Additionally with new devices such as IPADs and Kindles, provided by the client, clients have become more interested in learning and some more adept at operating such devices. At one assisted living facility Seniorlink holds a group class which has turned into a technology group which meets independently of me. This is proof that exposure to technology has led to incorporation of it into daily life.
Regarding health issues, SeniorLink has introduced memory assistance software and seniors have shown improved memory. Additionally, the use of the fingers while typing helps with arthritic conditions. Seniors with Alzheimer's also benefit from tutors creating a personalized instruction manual that is left with the client. Clients who have Parkinson's disease have been able to use the IPAD with a stylist.
ultimately the question of success in the social entrepreneur setting is whether there is a benefit to society while generating revenue and profit. In the brief history of SeniorLink, I have seen the important connection that technology can make. The walls of isolation can come down.

Healthcare in India is not much efficiently managed till recent times. With the entry of corporate giants like Apollo, Max and Fortis, this trend seems to be changing but still when it comes to efficient usage of technology, Indian hospitals lag behind the other countries’.
With the law regarding mandatory storage of medical data electronically, in USA a big potential market has opened up. Rationale behind doing this is to manage the data smoothly and to keep the history available to medical fraternity as well as the patients themselves.
The role of cloud has till now been limited in either providing EMR facility or giving telemedicine. But quite a few efforts have been made in the direction of making healthcare omnipresent, i.e. integrating both.

Doctors can consult one another across the globe. In rare cases, life- saving advises from the best brains of the world can be obtained
A good number of patients will be treated at PHCs only, so no need for them to go to the district hospitals.
Less dependence on any specific doctor, for the patient (flexibility to continue the treatment from where it is, by the other doctor)
Transparency in the treatment and less scope of Irrational Drug Therapy
From rural population, those who want to spend on health and want a premium on services can get a chance (by connecting rural area with private sector by telemedicine). It will lead to decreased number of patients in the tertiary government Hospitals which are already overburdened, and redistribute this number to the private hospitals.

Vision: Achieving Global HealthCare Omnipresence through Cloud Computing

To develop a healthcare collaboration platform for Consumers and healthcare service providers. To enable consumers to centralize their medical history and providers for their referral communication on investigations, procedures, and medications after patient visit.
To initiate comprehensive practice management source for physicians and integrated interface to communicate with preferred labs, pharmacies, and diagnostic centers.

To Doctors:
Reduction in paperwork
Data synchronization
Laboratories connected
Easy access to medical histories
Ease of consulting the other doctors
Platform to showcase research
Telemedicine - More number of patients
Long-run reduction in cost
Reduction in time-per-patient

To Patients:
Storage and access of clinical history
Avoidance of duplication of investigations
Technology utilization
Online follow-ups
Appointment booking
Online advice from the consulting doctor
Research and opinions of all the doctors accessible
Telemedicine - ease of access
Reliable healthcare information over internet

Doctors, Patients and Hospital Chains.
We carried out a Primary Research and ran a Cluster Analysis in order to segment and target our customers. The results indicated the following target segments:
Doctors of all age groups seeking the proposition of Convenience (reduction of paperwork, diagnostic procedural smoothness) and doctors in the age group 20-30 years and seeking the proposition of Value-for-Money (cost reduction, reduction in average time spent on each patient).
Patients who are Benefit seeking (tech savvy, online appointment booking, online advise and follow ups) and Comfort seeking (avoiding duplication of their medical records and thus reducing high expenses), in Transferable jobs and living in Metropolitan cities.

We carried out a Primary Research to identify the factors influencing the consumers. The 3 major sources of promotion (in descending order of effectiveness) are:
1. Doctor recommendations
2. Online social media
3. Posters in hospitals and health magazines

Thus we decide to adopt a 3-pronged strategy:
Doctors – Personal Selling, Direct Marketing
Patients – Recommendations by doctors, Online Social Media
Hospital Chains – Pitch-ins and Promotions

On technological side, the primary activity shall involve setting up servers and database & developing the Cloud platform. An application for user interface shall be developed. Then accounts (unique login id and password) shall be provided to all the customers.
On operational side, at present, the telemedicine involves:
Primary health centers
Ambulances
Tertiary care centres
Here, one lab technician shall be present in such clinics who shall collect blood & prepare peripheral blood smears. He can be trained further to take the ECG. Such clinics are widely distributed in the rural area. Patient can be taken to such clinic in lesser time than to a PHC. Thus, vital time is saved; less chances of patient dying acutely; more admissions to hospital; more profit and less mortality.

Few start-ups like MDYantra have taken initiative in this field. But they should be considered more as peers than competitors because this idea is in nascent stage in India. There is enough room for multiple players to venture into this segment and develop their capabilities.
However, large IT players like Microsoft or Google pose a threat as they may venture into this segment because of their technological capabilities. Similarly healthcare giants like Fortis or Wockhardt may enter the segment because of their medical excellence.

Presently the mindset of population is inclined towards physical visits to the clinics. They will not like to get treated completely virtually, no matter how accurate it may be. A large portion of population is very peculiar to value-for-money and they find the value for money not only in the end-result of treatment but also in the process of getting treated.
Keeping this in mind, the invention is a supplement to the current medical practice. It aims to organize the medical practice in a drastic way. However, it would not be marketed as a replacement to the traditional doctor visits.
Many players are there who are not using cloud but providing these services in fragments.
e.g. EMR and PH storage – Siemens, Wipro GE, TCS, Vepro, etc. telemedicine – Apollo hospitals, ISRO

The long term growth strategy is 2-pronged.
Firstly, we aim to cover maximum number of villages of India through Telemedicine. Collaborating with the Central Government, we aim to cover government hospitals as well.
Parallel to this, we leverage the power of cloud to go Global. Promoting the service to doctors as well as hospital chains abroad shall be a part of the growth strategy.

Government support is anticipated in this field in the next couple of years.
Government is preparing ‘Rural Doctors’ who, by a course of 4 years, learn basic treatments. This workforce can be utilized to treat the patients with the help from Telemedicine, which will lead to decreased incentives to be paid.

The key growth objectives are:

Implementing Cloud based Healthcare system in 5 major hospital chains across India.
Connecting rural India's primary healthcare centers with these hospitals (villages within 250 km area of each hospital) through Telemedicine.
Financial break-even by the end of 3rd year in operation.

Profit Analysis:
Profit will be Rs. 110000 per month per cluster. (considering 10 patients per week getting telemedicine treatment and 4 of them actually contributing to the hospital treatment, with 25% of the profit earned by hospital.)
Thus, at the end of 1 year, each cluster can break-even.
After that, if 10 clusters are made, almost Rs. 1.1 crore per month will be the profit.
7 colleges (100 licenses per unit)
3 research centres (50 licenses per unit)
25 hospitals (20 licenses per unit)
Average usage: 4 hours a day
Revenue generated will be approximately Rs. 3200000 per month or Rs. 38400000 per year.
Taking the loan and interest into account, and also expecting more participation from the healthcare firms, the system is expected to start generating profit from the 4th year.

Sustainably funded provision of trauma care to those with PTSD many years after the Rwandan Genocide but who also have a range of otter debilitating conditions such as HIV, physical disabilities and also social care needs such as housing.

We are a model of sustainability. We take the income that comes from international tourists and students coming to the Kigali Genocide Memorial and who might stay at our hostel and use our cafe and gift shop and we use the proceeds of the enterprises to fund health and social care programmes for our 140 beneficiaries and yet we also use our businesses to train young Rwandans to develop skills and trades and become entrepreneurs themselves.

Our vision is to grow businesses as social enterprises which not only produce profits which fund our care programmes and educational activities but also train and develop young Rwandans to create their own businesses also. We see the staff that we develop going on to create their own profitable businesses and help them to start their businesses with loans and investment,in which we could retain a stake and thus help the continuous and sustainable cycle of investment and growth.

Provide investment in healthcare from profits from sustainable enterprise which seeks to employ, train and develop people from that heath and social care programme to achieve greater health and independence. This creates a virtuous cycle of enterprise, investment, social and economic return. In the process young Rwandans get chance to develop their own business ideas through our "business incubator" and that then gives them a greater sense of having a stake in their own society

The 70000 visitors to the Kigali Genocide Memorial (40,000 of whom are international visitors) plus the 140+ survivors and their families who we support in the health and social care programmes. Potentially anyone who visits Rwanda is a customer and this is a growing market.

Web based marketing, CRM database management (sort of!), on-site promotions, word of mouth, reputation developed from networking of international youth visitors

In healthcare: trauma counselling for a static population of 140 and then the thousands of Rwandan visitors who come each year who suffer trauma related distress when visiting the Memorial. But in in our social enterprises we run a hostel, a cafe, a gift shop and we hir out audio guides. We also have an interest in a coffee roasting business which we sell through our cafe.

Our competitors are related entirely to the hostel so low cost hotel competition which is growing but we are Number 2 on Trip Advisor for RWanda and offer a unique travel and stay experience for young people in a relaxed central location in Kigali

Raising money to invest capital in the business. We do not own any of the premises we operate from and find it hard to raise enough money for one off investment e.g. for coffee machines for our baristas or for our own coffee roaster. We could also expand the business by opening a second hostel.

Double turnover in three years by expanding rooms at the hostel, developing our more profitable lines of gifts, changing our procurement processes, better merchandising and customer relationship management, couples with a development of "safari tents" in our grounds at the hostel.

Strong track record over three years i.e. from zero to $450,000 turnover in that time; opportunity for physical expansion; growth of African and Eco tourism

Double turnover in three years, increase margins from 50 - 65%

Expand camping facilities at hostel in 2013, and increase number of double rooms by investing RWFr 30,000,000; relocating kitchens in 2014 along with increased and improved washing facilities; increase the number of languages in our range of audio guides from 6 to 10 along with an increase in price from $10 - $15.

The problem of regretting. Parents keep on telling their children not to use electronics as it affects their health. Children don't listen but later regret it.

That's what I want to solve. The comfort I want to provide will be for all age groups and sectors.

Many health problems will be prevented. "Prevention is better than cure."

Why not think about how big problem it will solve. Many children like me will be saved from short height problems. Spine bending is a big problem now a days.

Eyesight problems will be prevented. New ethics in children will be introduced.
Lots of sectors will be benefited including technology and health.

The vision is to see a life where complete happiness, comfort is there. Where people smile and not complain. Where technology is a boon, not a bane.

I want to make life peaceful, enjoyable for all who want to but can't.

Life's like that only. We commit mistakes and regret. When not imagine the consequences, work on them and innovate an idea like it.

I will work! Its not my over-confidence but my confidence.

It depends upon the investment required to turn this idea into innovation.
Its a hypothetical idea so its value can't be specified but yes, an estimated value will be only a little more than a common chair as not much is required to transform pain into relief.

As already stated, it would benefit all kinds of people, age groups, communities, religions, regions, races, nations and sectors.

Its target market will be so expanded that everybody would demand it!

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Believe it and do it.
That's my policy.
Expanding your business requires advertising and marketing but the best way is sample provision.
It will benefit the people by judging it and then trusting it.

Main activity is to design such a chair even if my idea doesn't get selected as I believe in benefit of all, not money.

No body can make you feel low without your own consent.

When you have confidence and passion, the only competitor is LUCK!

May be many people will feel unsatisfied after purchasing it. But human mind is great! They can use it as a normal chair and it would not affect them much due to less difference in its cost.

No doubt its publicity and reach to all people will take time, but an estimate says that in a few months all will be aware of this extraordinary technology in the market.
Its production will soon boom. And all will be benefited- the producers as well as consumers.

Its because its needed..
Inventions are always accidental. But this one will reach higher and higher levels once established!

Ethics
Honesty
Trust
Confidence
Publicity
Assure
Smile of people

When people's demand will increase and our production will have to be fasten, it would be a sign of accomplishment.

The moment our all feedback will be positive, that will be the moment of SUCCESS!

Creating access to healthcare through service delivery at home. We shave money for client as we cut short hospital stay which is tedious for family members and associated care taking party and help hospitals make more money by making hospitals more active on bed occupancy reate by leveraging faster discharge and more flow of work. We create work for people who are left unemployed in healthcare service sector like nurses, doctors and physiotherapist. We also have created extra volume of work for similar professionals who are willing to work extra hours. We bring value to the employee whose work is more demanding as they cant give time to take care of their loved ones, its gives them relief and respite of social responsibilities.

We tried something completely out of box for healthcare delivery services. There has been growing healthcare services in Nepal like hospitals, tertiary care services and super speciality centers, and everything was happening in more conventional and orthodox healthcare service delivery models. So, as gap was evidently growing, we decided to create something new and serve people who were not getting service in that area where the ACCESS was missing. the creating of formal Access to mainstream healthcare staying at home has been our one of the focus. We also wanted it to be associated with mainstream healthcare so that the continuum of care is not broken ever. This fundamental concept has helped our patient to stay connected with care

Our objective is simple to create access of healthcare to people who need it at home at affordable cost. The service has to be self sustaining, replicable and scalable anywhere done. The service of healthcare is essential humanitarian service it has to be blend of social enterprise which evolves responsibly. We think this service is local now if done properly this service become global, specially for the societies or population in developing world like Asia and Africa.

We approach to individual issue independently and let the solution be totally customizable and compatible to the individual’s need of care value. As we respect the individual capacity should not be limiting factor we make program as customized possible. We have some values that we follow very closely.
1. Compassion we practice the value of compassion as the foremost value of healing.
2. Care with professional value, ethical practice, evidence based knowledge and professional skill are associated with true care value of ours.
3. Confidentiality is respecting individual’s identity and dignity and we value that most.
4. Customization of service is mandatory for the service of human as every human is different.
5. Comfort as comfort of home is unmatchable for any individual.

1. Sick people not improving with medical treatment and management at hospital for example in cancer care and palliative care.
2. chronic disease condition not necessarily requiring hospital care but require consistent medical vigilance and assistance for example in oxygen dependent people of respiratory illness, parkinsonism people with walking limitation, Dementia care and management etc.
3. People requiring multiple and frequent access to simple healthcare services like blood testing, medication management and physician visits in close intervals in weeks for example in old age related care.
4. Rehabilitation services like physiotherapy management at home.
5. Pharmacy deliveries, lab test and result delivery services,

.We have good network of our old clients who refer us to their other family members or friends.
.We have another network of good doctors who practice ethical and evidence based medicine.
.We also get walk in clients from social marketing and international base. Like Facebook and website.
.We have good relationship with good hospitals of Nepal like Norvic, OM, Medicare, Gangalal (Cardiac center), TUTH, Bir and other highly reputed and good flow hospitals.
.We have trusted office managers who ensure the link is maintained with the people who are eligible and willing to work and .we also have consistent flow of clients who maintain our work volume.
.We do marketing to that limit/extent where we can provide service. Till the record of our own existence we have not turn down any queri

#People significantly not improving with medical treatment and management or not responding to management protocol of treatment at hospital for example in cancer care and palliative care.
#chronic disease but not necessarily need hospital care but require consistent medical vigilance and assistance for example in oxygen dependent people of respiratory illness, parkinsonism people with walking limitation, Dementia care and management etc.
# People requiring multiple and frequent access to simple healthcare services like blood testing, medication management and physician visits in close intervals in weeks for example in old age related care.
# People requiring rehabilitation services like physiotherapy management and care who not necessarily need hospital stay etc.

We don't have market competition as of now in our service category. We are pioneer and have been able to create price tag according to our service design, which is considered as benchmark and revolves around the same value all the time. Where as there are group of nurses or physiotherapist who do pretend to present them self as a service provider, which have either had breakaway or had to shut down due to other reasons, which we don't get to know always.
There is none existing service provider in exact our value of integrated service provider in our market. There had been some nursing agencies and some physiotherapy services, which has evolved or inspired in our model. We don't think that is exact competitive model but they do take away some market share.

1. Personal (Non acceptance by family as a doable thing and rediculing process of quiting cardiac surgery residency to persue social enterprise and solution for service gap.)
2. Professional (Non support by senior practitioners as a service for needy one going out of hospital specially from the field of neurology, orthopedics and oncology. Humiliation of doing networking and asking for cases where as there were no one providing solution at the patients service.)
3. Financial (Non availability of fund for the start up both from personal front and banking sector)

1. Stabilize institutional development (Infrastructure, Training)
2. Marketing (Networking, Branding, MOU, Advertisements)
3. Verticals creations and spinoffs like nursing agency, physiotherapist-agency, equipment buy/sell/rent, doctor on call etc
4. IT integration for branding and e-commerce.
5. Starting training institution for home caregivers in local centre(HR development)

We have tested our product idea, solution concept design and service delivery to the level from where we can say it has worked well for the existing service gap in healthcare delivery. We have been able to make it responsible service both inside organizational value and outside in society (Award, Media and word of mouth referral). We have future plan to expand, stabilize and globalize the service.

We want to make it a concept/brand of service which is needed in every society.
No one has to think that the service of healthcare is only confined to the boundaries of hospital or individual.
The process of the service of home healthcare has to be affordable, sustainable, and suitable according to the social structure and values. Home healthcare has to be complimenting service.

Short term: We have plans to open new centers in other cities of Nepal or subcontinent.
We have been training in-house staff to run service centres independently.
We have two new independent services arm likely nursing agency and a physician service coming independently as spin off.
We are trying to sign an agreement with hospitals and healthcare organizations for referral base creation.
We are networking with independent specialist for specialist based services development.
Long term: Health at home has to be model of service for the any societies in world be it replicate or partner with our organization. health at home has to be complete institution with training modules, service mechanisms and success stories.