About Vice-Principal ResearchThe Queen's Partnerships and Innovation (QPI) team develops and facilitates partnerships with industry, governments, not-for-profit organizations, and other academic institutions to advance the research enterprise at and the commercialization and protection of inventions, and to strengthen the regional innovation ecosystem in Kingston and Eastern Ontario.
QPI also supports the university카지노 게임 컬렉션s strategic goal to build community partnerships and fully embed Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s in the community. With support from external funding, the QPI team offers numerous services, resources, and programs to support entrepreneurs, including those from Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s, and to accelerate the growth of startups and small- to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) within Kingston and Eastern Ontario.
When people think of innovation, they often think of a technology or business model 카지노 게임 컬렉션 that카지노 게임 컬렉션s the intersection where Dr. Shahram Yousefi, a professor in Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, feels like his company, is different from other deep-tech healthcare software companies.
While originally aimed at call and clinic scheduling for physician and resident groups with complex schedules, Mesh AI can also handle some of the most challenging nurse rostering or even entire hospital staff scheduling problems. In a fast-paced environment like a specialty group within a teaching hospital, a platform that can save time and eliminate conflicts and errors can mean a world of difference on the stress of both admins and clinicians as well as the quality of care patients receive.
카지노 게임 컬렉션We have been able to be innovative with both our business model and our technology,카지노 게임 컬렉션 Dr. Yousefi explains. 카지노 게임 컬렉션It카지노 게임 컬렉션s not just about the state-of-the-art intelligent algorithms that can solve the most constrained call scheduling problems; it카지노 게임 컬렉션s also about how we customize and price the product for each healthcare team to ensure fairness, equality, and inclusion across the board. Mesh AI is affordable and accessible to even the most rural healthcare teams with very limited budget while still ensuring equitable and low-conflict schedules for all individual doctors or residents, for example.카지노 게임 컬렉션
And the approach is working. Mesh AI has seen a 700% growth in product demos since September 2022 and an 80% growth rate in business in the last year.
카지노 게임 컬렉션Our numbers seem really large right now, but they come as the result of a slow and steady approach,카지노 게임 컬렉션 Dr. Yousefi says. He adds, 카지노 게임 컬렉션we are also very proud that our churn is practically zero; when healthcare teams migrate to Mesh AI, they never leave. And they consistently give us a 5 out of 5 stars in customer support.카지노 게임 컬렉션 Today, workforce shortage is the number one problem in healthcare globally. Overworked and burned out, clinicians are leaving the profession or worse, pass away from suicide.
카지노 게임 컬렉션In the US alone, two doctors die by suicide each day,카지노 게임 컬렉션 says Dr. Yousefi. Bad staff scheduling also costs patient lives. In the US, each year, more than 500,000 patients die due to medical errors.
카지노 게임 컬렉션And fatigue is a major driver of medical errors,카지노 게임 컬렉션 according to Dr. Yousefi. This is in fact how Dr. Yousefi, a global expert in telecom and data storage algorithms, found himself in the frontlines of helping our healthcare workers with better shifts. Having personally experienced the pains of manual scheduling for healthcare staff, he began working on the problem in 2014. With his background in optimization algorithms, Dr. Yousefi knew there was a better way to handle medical scheduling than just using emails and spreadsheets. Collaborating with another entrepreneurial-minded professor at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s, Dr. Mohsen Omrani, a medical doctor and neuroscientist, the two set out to co-found Canarmony Corp., a healthcare software company that laid the foundations of what would become Mesh AI and (a mental health platform), separately.
In 2016, Canarmony was accepted into Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s Partnerships and Innovation카지노 게임 컬렉션s (QPI) (then Office of Partnerships and Innovation) Innovation Park incubator and their GrindSpaceXL program, to develop the concept into a reality. Over the course of the last several years, Dr. Yousefi has been working on the company with a small team in a part-time capacity.
카지노 게임 컬렉션A lot of startups want to come out of the gate and grow quickly. Yes, 카지노 게임 컬렉션time is money,카지노 게임 컬렉션 but we had a bit of a different thought process,카지노 게임 컬렉션 says Dr. Yousefi. 카지노 게임 컬렉션The slow evolution became a strength. It allowed us to avoid some of the pitfalls of many healthcare software ventures. Instead of building fast for all, and fail to be a good product for anyone, we took the time to learn what matters to the healthcare teams we support in Canada and the US on the long run. That, along with our accumulated expertise in managing change in healthcare, guided us to develop a unique offering today; a product that is both adaptive and affordable for the majority of physician and resident groups in North America.카지노 게임 컬렉션
Through iterations, data collection and time, Mesh AI has narrowed their product market fit to find the right niche.
카지노 게임 컬렉션We started close to home and have worked out geographically from there,카지노 게임 컬렉션 says Dr. Yousefi. In addition to adding clients in the US, Mesh AI is now serving physicians and residents at some of the largest hospitals in Canada from coast to coast, including Sick Kids, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto West Hospital, Kingston General Hospital, 카지노게임사이트 of British Columbia, Royal Columbian Hospital, Mount Sinai, Royal Victoria Hospital, Guelph General Hospital, the Ottawa Hospital, Children카지노 게임 컬렉션s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, and many more well-known hospitals and health networks.
Dr. Yousefi believes Mesh AI카지노 게임 컬렉션s success in reaching hospitals is in talking directly to the end users. 카지노 게임 컬렉션We determined that spending time speaking with high level administrators who likely won카지노 게임 컬렉션t use the platform isn카지노 게임 컬렉션t the best approach for us. Our mission has been to improve wellness for clinicians, and this is where many software companies have failed healthcare. Electronic medical records meant to save healthcare are now a major point of complaint with doctors spending countless hours checking boxes and filling forms and spending less time with patients.카지노 게임 컬렉션
Conferences and demonstrations have also proved fruitful in developing important partnerships. On October 2022, Mesh AI attended the American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference and Exhibition in Anaheim, California, which has initiated a number of new partnership opportunities.
Dr. Yousefi also received support from QPI카지노 게임 컬렉션s High-impact Mentorship program, offered via the Health Innovation Kingston (HI YGK) Project to help a selection of health-innovation focused startups get ready for investment. QPI hired serial entrepreneur Leo Lax (Executive Managing Director of L-SPARK) to work with Dr. Yousefi on refining product-market fit and business strategy over a 6-month period. 카지노 게임 컬렉션This program was very impactful for our growth as Leo카지노 게임 컬렉션s 카지노 게임 컬렉션Sherpa카지노 게임 컬렉션 style of advising quickly removed many uncertainties in our business model as well as product design,카지노 게임 컬렉션 he says.
Additionally, Shahram credits much of their success to word-of-mouth referrals. In fact, one of their recent partnerships with the American Medical Women's Association (AMWA), the largest association of female physicians, came through recommendations by female physicians who believe in the power of Mesh AI to make healthcare a more inclusive place for women physicians.
The company has also had tremendous success with their "Mesh AI Ambassadors" program. Ambassadors are medical students, residents, fellows, physicians, and other healthcare leaders who are interested in working with Mesh AI towards product improvement as well as growth and promotion opportunities.
Looking to the year ahead, Mesh AI is focused on growth of the company and subsequently the team. 카지노 게임 컬렉션We spend most of our time on hiring new staff, improving the product for experience, reliability, and stability, and sales,카지노 게임 컬렉션 says Dr. Yousefi. 카지노 게임 컬렉션In the coming year, we are offering a $1.5 million Canadian investment opportunity in our seed funding campaign via convertible debt, SAFE, or KISS.카지노 게임 컬렉션
QPI is looking forward to providing continued supports and mentorship for Mesh AI as a virtual Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s Startup Runway client.
The is led by the City of Kingston and supported with funding from the . The Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s Startup Runway is offered through the , an initiative supported by FedDev Ontario and led by Invest Ottawa in Eastern Ontario and in which QPI is a regional partner, and the health-focused High-impact Mentorship Program is offered through the HI YGK Project.