One of the world's most prestigious startup schools, Y Combinator, helped facilitate the launch of RigPlenish, a new technology startup that aims to seriously cut down the time it takes ambulances to fill out their paperwork through automation, on the second day of their Summer 2016 demo series.
RigPlenish was founded by Nupur Mehta,a Graduate of the Silicon Valley Founder Institute, and developer Tejaswi Sagiraju. She has spent a fair amount of her time interning at Stanford Hospital and the Goodman Simulation Center. These experiences illustrated to Mehta that emergency responders spend a large amount of time filling out paperwork. Her idea was simple, if she could find a way to cut down the amount of time emergency responders spent filling out paperwork they would have more time to focus on saving lives, and thus RigPlenish was born.
RigPlenish reduces the amount of ambulance down time by ninety percent! You may be wondering what that means in more specific details. On average, each ambulance run lasts two hours. This includes driving out to a location, picking up a patient, driving back to the hospital, dropping the patient off, and completing the necessary paperwork along the way. On average, the amount of time that paramedics spend doing the required paperwork associated with their runs is 40 minutes per run. Currently, paramedics are spending a third of their total run times doing paperwork. RigPlenish can cut down the amount of time that paramedics do paperwork from 40 minutes to 4 minutes. Thus, freeing up ambulances so that they can get back out on the road and continue to save lives.
RigPlenish is an end-to-end data management application that automates the required paperwork at each stage of an ambulance run. There are a number of checklists and compliance forms that need to filled out for every ambulance run. RigPlenish automates these necessary forms. They are able to collect data through wi-fi enabled devices onboard the ambulances and then use predictive analysis to further the process of auto-populating their data collection. Each patient's information and medical data is then assigned to them through a unique barcode, so that their medical charts and data can be quickly, yet securely, pulled up on the fly. RigPlensih analyzes their collected data further so that time discrepancies can be ironed out and ambulances can run more efficiently.
RigPlenish also improves the communication lines between ambulance hubs and hospitals, so that more ambulances can be out on the road when they are needed most.
Currently, the market that RigPlenish is addressing is worth approximately 1.3 billion dollars, and their current pilot accounts for 4.4 million ambulance runs so far. There is a lot of room for market growth in the industry right now, and RigPlenish is not planning on stopping with ambulances.
Once the company has more of an established customer base they are planning on expanding their service offering to other emergency responder vehicles such as fire trucks and police cars. They aim to move into this market be improving the backend software in place in these vehicles. RigPlenish's focus is reducing time. They firmly believe that responders should be out saving lives, not doing busy work. That is where their service comes into play.
As of now, the service costs $2,000 a month. There is a lot of excitement over the new company and service. Being able to reduce the amount of time first responders spend doing busy work by up to 90 percent could very well be the difference between life and death for someone. The future is definitely bright for RigPlenish as their service continues to expand and improve.
