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Home > VOL. 132 | NO. 44 | Thursday, March 02, 2017
MMDC Competition Winners Aim toImprove Medical District EfficiencyBY MICHAEL WADDELL, Special to The Daily News
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MedHaul and Sparco Projectpedia were the winning ideas from the recentMemphis Medical District Collaborative (MMDC) Operation Opportunitybusiness plan competition, and the entrepreneurs behind the conceptswill now work with EPIcenter to cultivate them into successful ventures.
The competition invitedMemphis-based innovators,entrepreneurs and existingcompanies to help solveoperational challenges withinthe supply chain of the MemphisMedical District, with the overallgoal of strengthening purchasingand procurement relationshipsamong small businesses and themajor hospitals and universitiesin that area.
The MMDC, EPIcenter and U3Advisors partnered on the competition; participating medical districtinstitutions include St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital/ALSAC,Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, Regional One Health, University ofTennessee Health Science Center, Baptist College of Health Sciences,Southern College of Optometry and Memphis Bioworks Foundation.
“In general, we were overwhelmed by the quality of ideas andapplications,” said EPIcenter president Leslie Lynn Smith. “The winningcompanies really demonstrated what we were hoping to find by holdingthis competition – local innovators who can solve specific challengeswithin the medical district and deliver a local solution. When institutionswith purchasing power like those in the medical district are able to chooselocal businesses as suppliers, the whole region benefits.”
MedHaul is envisioned as a shared-ride medical service to help healthcare providers achieve better continuity of care by providing innovativemedical transportation solutions which, in turn, positively impacthospital metrics such as avoidable readmissions and length of stay.
The software application will help area institutions better managetransportation for patients. MedHaul’s holding company, Segue MedicalSolutions, will also offer non-emergency transportation service forpatients and consulting services in health information technology, healthcare quality and project management.
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Erica Plybeah’s startup MedHaul was one oftwo winners in the Memphis Medical DistrictCollaborative’s recent Operation Opportunitybusiness plan competition.
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Erica Plybeah, MedHaul co-founder and clinical informatics projectmanager at Memphis Bioworks Foundation, wants to improve the patientexperience at discharge. She initially looked at the experience from theperspective of a new mom leaving the hospital after giving birth andhaving to get into a potentially dirty cab to go home.
“That’s where I came up with the idea for a more quality transportationservice,” Plybeah said. “One organization in the medical district statedthat they didn’t have a way to manage their transportation, so that’s howthe idea came about for the software application.”
The company’s biggest goal is transportation management.
Plybeah researched the area’s non-emergency transportation companiesand found many are mom-and-pop shops with small fleets.
“There are actually a lot more of them than many health care providersthink, but there isn’t really a way to manage all of them,” she said. “Iwanted to create an application where these mom-and-pop providers stillhave a way to be competitive and still have a way to get business from St.Jude, Methodist, Regional One, or the area’s other health systems.”
Sparco Projectpedia is a new online project management tool that willassist institutions in managing burst staffing and supplier relationships.Unistar-Sparco Computers Inc., a nearly 20-year-old IT, hardware,software and development company, submitted the winning idea.
“This platform development for the health care market will give us anopportunity to expand our market into health care and grow our footprintin software development,” said Unistar-Sparco president SooTsong Lim.“By knowing their challenges, we came up with a solution that iscustomized to what they want and will make them more efficient.”
With burst staffing, medical institutions often need to hire people for aquick project or to organize volunteers quickly to provide support forfundraising initiatives or mailings.
“Dealing with projects and events, they needed a database that could talkto other databases in terms of projects and suppliers for charity events,”said Eduardo Perez, director of operations for Unistar-Sparco.
Each winner will be assigned to one or two medical district anchororganizations to help further develop their concepts, and EPIcenter willassist in providing valuable resources and mentoring.
“We’re thrilled to provide customized support to the winners, such asaccess to resources, business planning assistance, and connections topartners and mentors – all at their specific stage of business growth,”Smith said. “Our goal with coordinating this support, as with all of theprograms within our entrepreneurial ecosystem, is to give these businessowners and innovators the greatest chance of success and maximize theeconomic benefits to their customers.”
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