Appreciate your feedback. My friend is 55 years old, and self-employed. She manages to take her bp every now and then, but doesnt keep an active record. It all ends up being very subjective. That is where I think solutions like Healthrageous can help.

That story aside, I totally understand the positioning of Healthrageous. Your value proposition is more through the conventional payer network and that is understandable.

Keep up the good work..
~Pallav

Your friend could talk to her employer’s HR representative (if she has one) about Healthrageous, and I could set up a call with the HR rep to discuss how we could help the overall health of their entire population. Contact me if I can help at alexDOTshearAThealthrageous.com.

Some great insights on the industry here, now that I know about it I’ll be sure to check in periodically.

Alex Shear
Marketing Manager
Healthrageous

Being free doesn’t really set Docmein apart. In fact most of the online scheduling tools (like Tungle) are free too- you can use them in your practice to enable patients to request appointment, just like Docmein. My intent for mentioning ZocDoc was to emphasize that in trying to help a patient find appointment time with a doctor, the key value may be helping them finding the right doctor, and not so much in finding the right meeting time.

I’m curious how you see OpenTable or Facebook making money in scheduling specific to healthcare.

Your question is very similar to one asked a few weeks ago. See What are some healthcare IT startups in San Francisco?. Here is what I wrote then.. it still applies: “A few months ago, I asked myself the same question. Started keeping notes about the …

Thanks for the info- sounds like a lot of exciting development is coming soon. Would you be willing to share some insights on competition in this space? What are some of the other companies with related products/services to yours?

I realize that this may be a bit sensitive question, but it’ll help educate the rest of us about the market for visual content based offerings in healthcare and how its shaping up.

Best,
~Pallav

Good question. I did have both Zeo and Fitbit on for a few nights. The comparison is a bit apples-oranges. FitBit tells me:
1. Time I went to sleep
2. Time to fall asleep
3. Total time in bed
4. Actual sleep time
5. Times Awakened

Zeo told me times in Wake, REM, Light, Deep sleep. The only common metric was number of times awakened. Since I have a 2 year old, I get up 5-10 times per night on average. What I found was that there were a bit more false positives on Fitbit (for times awakened). That makes sense since Fitbit relies on accelerometer, not EEG.

I couldn’t wrap my mind around how the different phases of my sleep mattered (e.g. does 45 minute deep sleep mean normal for someone like me?) Plus it was a chore to keep track of lifestyle factors and log them in Zeo to correlate with sleep quality. So I returned it. Since I don’t suffer from any sleep issues, Zeo was an overkill for me. I find FitBit more useful (esp. #2,4,5 metrics), even though it may score low on accuracy.

My apologies for the delay.

Ben Rubin (@bsrubin), cofounder & CTO, wrote a blog post about how Zeo works (from sensors to output) here: http://bit.ly/7yD2YF

All three sensors are involved in collecting a variety of signals mentioned in that post.

Also, we (and third parties) have done validation/accuracy studies with Zeo, PSG and Actigraphy. The results are consistent across the studies; you can find our posters here: http://www.myzeo.com/pages/52_for_health_professionals.cfm#Validations

Thanks for the questions and for following up.

Regards,
-Derek (@Zeo)
[derek@myzeo.com]