How is your business helping to solve the health, social, or economic challenges created by COVID19?
Our platform is currently used in community clinics in the Philippines and US (Seattle) by doctors and healthcare providers who document the treatment they provide to patients being tested and diagnosed with COVID 19. Our customers in the Philippines have also shared that our platform has been helpful in supporting their telemedicine initiatives especially during these times where they are on lockdown.
Does your business contribute most to recovery, response, or resilience?
Response - we're responding directly to issues caused or exacerbated by the COVID-19 outbreak.
What is the stage of your product development?
I have a market ready product/service. I have sold to customers.
What strengths does your team bring? Include skills and personal experience with the problem.
Patricia Lopez is the CEO and co-founder of NotesFirst. At 21 years old, she started her first company, LFC Solutions.Net, the first online accounting platform in the Philippines. During the early stages of NotesFirst, she was reminded of her experience migrating to the US as she traveled the world and observed the difficulties patients and doctors faced in accessing secure, legible electronic medical records. Since founding NotesFirst in 2012, Patricia has dedicated herself to improving global health outcomes, continuity of care and access to medication. Ryan Lopez is the CTO and co-founder of NotesFirst. He studied computer engineering at UCSD, which was where as a freshman he met Han Lee, with whom he would create NotesFirst. Ryan joined the Engineering Team of the medical device company Karl Storz Endoscopy - America, Inc., where his notable project was as co-leader and lead programmer for the design and control of 25 operating rooms, a neurosurgery suite, 2 conference rooms, and a 1,000 seat auditorium at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.Dr. Han S. Lee is the Chief Medical Officer and co-founder of NotesFirst. While in medical school in New York, he started to work on the idea of NotesFirst and reached out to his college roommate, Ryan, and thus began the seeds of what would eventually become NotesFirst. Dr. Lee finished his Neurology Residency at UCLA, finished a fellowship in Neurophysiology at UCLA and finished a second fellowship in Movement Disorders at USC.
What countries do you operate in?
Our platform has been deployed in 17 countries around the world including: Philippines, US, Mexico, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Haiti, Cambodia, Vietnam, Fiji, India, Jordan, etc.
Is your company headquartered in a US "Opportunity Zone"?
Yes
