Allie Schmidt, Disability Dame and PicnicHealth
Perfect, awesome. Well, thanks so much Allie, and I will go ahead and move into giving everybody some background on PicnicHealth. So, who is PicnicHealth? PicnicHealth was founded in 2014, when our CEO Noga was diagnosed with Crohn's. And at the time, she was in the process of seeking opinions from multiple specialists, she just had this diagnosis. And instead of, you know, being able to focus on her care and advocating for herself, she was trying to track down medical records. So she was waiting in line. She was placing multiple phone calls, not exactly what someone wants to be doing when they're just diagnosed with something. And she was like, Hey This system is completely broken and we need to fix it and thus, PicnicHealth was born. So in 2015, the very first thing that we launched with was our digital health timeline. I will go ahead and give you a demo of that later, but very essence. It's all of your medical records in one easy place and we take care of the work for you as far as gathering them goes. And then initially when we launched, we were a paid for service and we had to take a step back as a company because we know there's already so much of a burden of costs on patients in healthcare, so we did not want to charge them for our service but we needed to figure out a way to do that. So in 2018, we realized that there was a unique opportunity for our real-world data and we can partner with researchers. And that's kind of where we sit now. So we have our real world data research portion and we also have our health timeline and in partnering with researchers, on real world data research, we are able to offer that timeline for free and actually compensate a little bit, which we will also talk about as well.
