hPass

Our story begins at a point where we did not know what type of tools we were lacking to handle a global pandemic, as one had never happened before. Now looking forward, hPass builds a universal digital infectious disease control platform, we did not know we needed.

hPass goal is to revolutionize the screening process of infections and diseases. The COVID-19 pandemic exposed a need for an efficient, cheap, and fast to deploy tool to keep businesses and communities safe. With hPass, every venue – from healthcare facilities to gyms and factories can ensure its employees and users are symptoms free. Our platform enables employees, and customers to scan their health records, submit symptom reports and temperature. For businesses, hPass helps to maintain a healthy environment by enforcing entry policies, as well as signal their health status using our unique health certificate. hPass mission is to bring back health confidence while engaging in economic activities, to flatten the curve, and stop the spread of infectious diseases. Our moonshot goal is to digitalize infection control beyond COVID-19, with annual outbreaks such as Measles and flu and help individuals track their personal health status anywhere, anytime.

hPass launched only three months ago and is already piloting in a dozen different venues, yielding 250 users with additional 100 venues in the pipeline. Most market solutions for infection and disease control are product based, and therefore are expensive and time consuming to deploy. hPass SaaS technology has the feasibility to deliver services for almost no cost of goods sold that can be deployed in every venue within minutes. hPass has a unique network effect: The faster we grow, the more we will be able to identify COVID-19 patterns and trends. The digitalization of infection control screening data creates interoperability between different industries: The same hPass app is used to enter an ER as well as a gym. As a result, the more users we onboard, the more businesses gain value from deploying hPass. The more businesses deploy hPass, the greater the value for individual users to download hPass.

Why are we doing this?

hPass was born from the commitment to help society in this current crisis. Understanding that innovation in healthcare is crucial to provide communities, businesses and institutions with efficient screening tools. hPass was born when a team of four hailing from the technology, policy and medical worlds met at the MIT cafeteria to discuss the new reality our world suddenly faced. While watching the economy collapsing and imagining the post-pandemic world, hPass was first thought as a solution that can help communities stay safe globally.

The team brings together over 50 years of diverse experience from the technology, medicine, and policy fields. hPass is a tool that requires deep technological knowledge, medical and public health experience, and a keen understanding in business and strategy.

The hPass magic: How does it work?

hPass is based on simplicity, elegance, and scalability. Once a user is downloading the app, he or she can create their health profile and submit their symptoms within minutes. According to the policy set by the venue, from an office space to the gym, both users and businesses can easily see the screening status of the user. The unique value of hPass is its adaptivity to different policies for different venues that could be easily adjusted around the specific needs requested from our business partners. Ranging from assisting living facilities to schools and restaurants, every decision is transparent and explainable to visitors, employees, and customers.

We believe that the privacy of our users’ matter. A key principal of our technology is to maintain the privacy in each and every screening. To reach this goal, the user’s data never leaves the mobile device in an identifiable manner. Our team developed privacy preserving technologies that de-identify the data on the cloud while allowing us to support the needs of the edge devices. As we hope to scale and digitalize all health records, our vision is to create the first ever, free, widely used, interoperable personal health record (PHR) saved on the user’s phone. To do so, we need to ensure both user’s information and businesses’ screening data remains safe and private.

Beyond COVID-19, the scope of the value derived from the hPass vision is limitless, creating ample opportunities for the scientific and medical community in the long-run. Using our groundbreaking technology, research institutes and healthcare facilities can gain invaluable information about COVID-19 symptoms, tracking and transmission trends. hPass technology can provide analytics and knowledge to pandemics and deliver real time knowledge and analyses.

Where we are now an where we are heading:

States across the U.S. and countries globally are reopening for business, while still experimenting surges in the number of COVID-19 cases. The goal of hPass is to flatten the curve and keep communities safe while reaching the entire U.S. within the next 24 months. We believe that the data and insights that can be drawn from an increase number of users will tremendously assist institutions to develop policies and for businesses to operate in a safe manner. In the past three months, the hPass team developed an MVP that is ready to pilot this week in our dozen partnering venues. The hPass app is available for free download on Google Play and App Store. Our next milestone is to secure the first large scale paying employer as our customer by the end of the summer. Following with additional thousands of employees and individual users by the end of the year, with multiple partnerships with assisting living facilities and additional key strategic partners. In the first six months of 2021 we hope to reach additional assisting living facilities: Rehab centers, hospitals, and nursing homes. Our goal is to reach over one million users between 2021-2022, expanding to additional verticals such as public institutions, additional businesses, and large-scale corporations.

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