I’m Lily Tang from Liyfe (pronounced Life) Center (https://liyfeclinic.com), which introduced simply one week back. We bring medical knowledge and support to breast cancer clients without them stepping into clinics.
I worked 13 years as a cancer physicist in radiation oncology. During that time, I have actually seen repeatedly the problems related to access to care– those patients who may have been detected earlier, and those whose treatments might have been more compliant, and whose post-op signs might have been handled more effectively after their initial treatment.
In truth, the average time a cancer client gets to talk with a physician is only 17 minutes. Without enough education and interaction, patients often can not understand their house instruction totally, and as a result their compliance is insufficient. All these affect treatment outcome. I wanted to change this circumstance.
If nobody takes pleasure in the process of hospital visits, and medical professionals don’t have sufficient time to communicate with clients, how about producing a telemedicine platform? It can offer 24/ 7 access to customized cancer consultation and assistance. This is how Liyfe Clinic began.
I fulfilled Sherry 2 years ago. We rapidly became pals, and quickly co-founders. Sherry began to build a HIPAA compliant platform for patient and medical professional interaction, consisting of iOS, Android, and web variations. The platform has native HIPAA compliant communication infrastructure across all versions. It supports text, image, and video messaging, and file transfers. We also have video chat solution on top of WebRTC.
Lots of cancer clients need to see numerous medical professionals from numerous centers, either at the same time or over some years. It is essential for them to have a central place to keep all of their medical records. In this manner, patients can quickly share the records with all doctors– to enhance interaction performance and avoid possible medical mistakes. We built a small EHR system. Patients can publish and arrange their profiles and medical records and pick whom they wish to share.
Presently we focus on breast cancer and offer 2 types of services: virtual office visits and Liyfe subscription. For virtual workplace check outs, clients can select to get a treatment second opinion, talk to a medical professional, nutrition coaching, and emotional assistance. When a service is picked, we will match the patient with a supplier, and after that the service provider can practically see the patient using the video chat on our platform.
The subscription program was developed just recently after we spoke with lots of patients. What clients truly want and require is to be able to access a personalized expert help, anytime, anywhere. The subscription program enables client to text chat with a designated nurse professional (NP). Texting is a really low threshold access to care, and it reduces many barriers (fear, cost, hassle, time lost from work) to personalized expert care. Most client concerns can be responded to by an NP. If there is a requirement to speak with a medical professional or other experts, the NP will triage that.
For long term, we would like work with local hospitals to supply a total cancer service to clients– medical facilities will look after patients when they are at hospitals, and we will make sure the rest.
If any of these situations resonates your or your family and friends’ experience, we ‘d enjoy to hear your thoughts.
