Reuters today wrote that many challenges in the field of geriatric care and nursing have prompted more and more technology company executives to leave their own businesses and try to solve this real problem. At the same time, major technology companies have also expanded the scope of benefits, including the parents of employees as protection targets.
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For many years, Google’s business executive, Stephanie Tilenius, has always had a double responsibility to cope with busy work while helping to take care of sick parents. This experience prompted her to leave Google in 2012 and set up a company that specializes in helping patients cope with chronic diseases.
Earlier this year, Dylanius's company launched Vida, a mobile app that allows patients to consult professionals on smartphones, including doctors, nurses, and nutritionists. The program costs $15 a week and can send medication reminders to patients. Patient caregivers and family members can also access the app to understand the patient's latest medical progress.
Dylanius said that her father could not stand regular medical advice, but it could have helped him lose weight and relieve stress. His father eventually died of heart disease.
"From a patient perspective, I think we are very lacking in resources," Dylanius said in an interview.
In fact, more and more Silicon Valley executives have resigned to develop a variety of mobile and digital health services, and many of them are “sandwiches†with “old and smallâ€. In the interview, many people said that they left the company because they had a personal experience in caring for the elderly with chronic diseases, and found that the US medical system is difficult to provide appropriate services for such people.
Some people say they are looking for customers and partners from their old club.
Executives leave business
After experiencing a similar experience of caring for the elderly, Google employee Munjal SHah left the company in October 2011 to develop an application called Hi.Q, hoping to enrich people's health knowledge. Sune Guptal, former product development director at Groupon, also resigned in December 2012 to create a nutritional application called Rise, for people with diabetes, cancer and obesity as his parents. service.
Caring.com is a community forum that provides a variety of information for caregivers. The company's founder, Andy Cohen, said he resigned as vice president of SuccessFactors after his parents became ill. SuccessFactors is a talent management software developer acquired by SAP in 2011.
Aneesh Chopra, the former chief technology officer of the United States, said that Silicon Valley entrepreneurs entering the medical industry in a big way can make the field use less cost, provide better care and better service. Chopra is currently co-founder of startup Hunch Analytics.
Missy Krasner, general manager of cloud computing company health and life sciences, said it was difficult to recruit talent from large technology companies to solve medical problems. “They think that medical care is a very closed field and it is subject to great regulatory pressure,†he said.
Krasner used to work for Google's Google Health division. The purpose of the service was to store online cases, but it was closed in 2012 due to insufficient progress.
Since 2012, Google has increased its focus on wearable tracking devices to further penetrate the medical and elderly markets. The company supports a biotechnology project called Calico, which hopes to conduct research on geriatric diseases and alleviate the pain. In addition, Google has established a partnership with pharmaceutical company AbbVie.
At the same time, Apple also announced that it will enter the medical field, initially looking to focus on fitness and health.
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