Fredericton App Could Make Finding Care Easy And Personalized For Seniors
FREDERICTON – A local health-tech company serving seniors with post-hospital care needs is working with hospitals and health departments across the country. Their next step is to bring their technology to the provincial pandemic recovery plan.
Founded by Vikram Devaguptapu, ServUs Health is a cloud-based service available on web or mobile that aims to match older adults discharged from hospitals with healthcare professionals, home support, or special care homes suited for their lifestyle and needs.
“A volunteer or a staff member checks the specific clients, then understands what their needs are, and then puts it in the app,” said Devaguptapu.
ServusHealth has established partnerships with healthcare services in the Victoria, B.C. area and is working on forming partnerships around the Atlantic region with the goal of making navigating and finding care services easy for older adults.
“People are constantly switching their home support and care homes,” said Devaguptapu. “So to match them with the right provider, we gather certain data, and then we use the data to improve the match for the next time. As we implement the machine learning and AI, we could be able to do a very close to the perfect match where people will be able to fulfill their needs.”
ServUs Health has targeted older adults seeking homecare, community care, or even care homes, but their hope now is to help with the New Brunswick government’s Covid-19 recovery plan.
“We would like to work with the provincial government to help provide Covid-19 services to older adults ranging from vaccination support to post-discharge care,” said Devaguptapu.
Devaguptapu says he has had conversations with the Department of Health and is hopeful in helping older adults find information such as information on where and when to get vaccinated, where to find healthcare services, and checking in with patients after being discharged from the hospital.
Devaguptapu has been thinking about developing the platform for almost a decade, but began focusing on it over the past three years. He moved to Canada from his home in Visakhapatnam, India, in 2016 and in that time was a part of UNB’s Technology Management & Entrepreneurship, Energia Ventures, and I-STEM programs.
He began working on the platform after experiencing instances where people in his life could not find proper care that matched their lifestyles and struggling to find the right specialists for their needs. He wanted to find a solution to help people get the best personalized care possible.
“That’s where I started working on it and digging more into the problem and validated my idea,” said Devaguptapu. “That’s why I started this and that’s the main reason.”
Liam Floyd is a reporter for Huddle. Send him story suggestions: [email protected].