Ringful, LLC
Smartphone-based Personal Health Monitors
- Conference
- DEMOfall 09
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Market Segment
- Enabling Technology
- Funding Amount
- $0-$100,000
- Funding Round
- Seed
- Funding Details
- Seed capital raised from friends and family, as well as ongoing revenue generated from app sales and consulting.
- Competitors
- Medapps, AllOneMobile, Health Buddy (Bosch), iHealth Ventures.
- Product Description
- Ringful reduces healthcare costs and improves preventive care via smartphone applications for personal health records. The Ringful platform enables hospitals, clinics, and insurers to build health monitoring apps on consumer smartphones, enroll patients into the monitoring program, and manage patient generated data in back-end Personal Health Record systems. Those apps promote patients' personal responsibility, and save costs for providers by reducing ER visits via early detection and personalized alarms.
- Market Opportunity
- Healthcare is now 20% of the U.S. GDP. Preventive care is considered a key to lower cost. PriceWaterHouseCoppoer and Morpace's 2009 surveys indicate that 73% and 27% of U.S. adults want to monitor vital signs and use PHRs at home, indicating consumer willingness for Ringful solutions.
- DEMO Says
- Ringful delivers mobile healthcare applications with unprecedented ease. By turning smartphones into a personal dashboard for medical information. Ringful allows users to input medical data, connect to other devices or backend record systems. Look for Ringful to make a huge impact in coming years as medical records go electronic.
- Contact
- Michael Yuan
- michael@ringful.com
- Company Address
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7020 Covered Bridge Dr.
Austin, TX 78736 - Primary Phone
- 415-894-2578
- URL
- www.ringful.com
- Officer One
- Michael Yuan - CEO & Founder
- Officer Two
- Ivelin Ivanov - EVP, Engineering
- Officer Three
- Bryan Rollins - EVP, Sales & Marketing