PRE-SEED MISSOULA, MONTANA

Healthcare should be understandable to everyone who walks through the door.

SIMPLE HealthComm is building communication accessible environments so that all people - including stroke survivors with a communication disorder called aphasia - can report their own health status and health outcomes.

We are a digital health company that makes Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) communication accessible for patients.

  • We make the language accessible

  • Patients report for themselves

  • Providers get the data

Healthcare Has a Communication Accessibility Problem

  • Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) capture health information only the patient can provide 

  • When PROMs are not communication accessible - patients can’t report - and data are lost

  • Many of the 2-4 million stroke survivors living with aphasia are excluded from PROM reporting

       

SIMPLE HealthComm is the Solution

SIMPLECOMM, is a digital health application that simplifies PROM language to increase communication accessibility for patients to participate in their own healthcare reporting.  

Our technology dynamically simplifies language while preserving the meaning and integrity of each health assessment tool and improves accessibility without diagnosing conditions or making treatment recommendations. 

SIMPLECOMM opens the door to accessible healthcare reporting by optimizing reimbursement, documentation, workflow efficiencies, and patient-centered care practices. 

  • Communication challenges do not impact intelligence. The burden currently sits with the patient.

    Everything we build assumes the person in front of us is capable of making their own decisions.

  • We believe that the healthcare environment should adapt to the person - not the other way around.

    We believe communication access is the answer.

  • Decades of clinical research provide a foundation of what communication access should look like.

    SIMPLE HealthComm integrates expertise and innovation to make communication access simple, efficient, and reliable without adding burden to clinical providers.

Founders

Dr. Catherine Off (University of Montana) and Dr. Victoria Scharp (Idaho State University) have spent their careers at the intersection of communication disorders, stroke rehabilitation, and real healthcare encounters.

SIMPLE HealthComm is a team of female founders in speech-language pathology, linguistics, and computer sciences.

We have 35+ years of stroke and aphasia rehabilitation experience and have seven co-authored scientific publications.

Traction: Pre-Seed Stage

  • Proven non-dilutive grant funding record

    • Rocky Mountain REACH ($50,000)

    • ITHS Early-Stage Product Development Award ($45,000)

  • NSF Great Plains Innovation Corps (I-CORPS) - Spring 2024 Cohort

  • Innosphere Lifesciences Incubator & Accelerator - 2026 Cohort

  • Core Technology Development

    • Proprietary, Custom LLM v. 1.0 engineered

    • UI wireframes developed

  • Customer discovery underway