What a funded pilot could do
The product works today. A pilot turns it into evidence: real families, real clinics, measured outcomes — for roughly the cost of half an engineer for a year.
Where pilot funding goes
Four line items, one outcome: real families, safely
Compliance engineering (~0.5 FTE)
Move to HIPAA-eligible, BAA-covered hosting and messaging; hospital single sign-on; step-up verification for visit history; security review and third-party penetration test before the first family enrolls.
Clinic workflow time
Buy out coordinator time to author recaps and work flags — and measure the true minutes-per-recap and minutes-per-flag, the numbers every future clinic will ask about.
Evaluation support
IRB/QI determination, biostatistics consultation, and a clean readout: response rates, flag utility, plan-clarity movement, early-intervention referral timeliness.
Infrastructure & messaging
The smallest line item by far — SMS for a family's full multi-month check-in journey costs well under a dollar.
What the pilot measures
The five questions a pilot answers
- 1
Do families engage?
Link-open and check-in response rates across languages and income levels — the equity claim, tested.
- 2
Are the flags worth it?
Minutes of coordinator time per flag, and how many flags led to an action the team was glad it took.
- 3
Is authoring sustainable?
Minutes to produce a recap per visit — the biggest operational risk, measured from day one.
- 4
Does anything move?
Plan clarity over the check-in sequence, barriers surfaced and resolved, early-intervention referrals completed on time.
- 5
Do teams walk in better prepared?
Whether the pre-visit summary changes how the visit starts — the outcome attendings care about most.
Shape: one clinic, 50–150 families, 6–12 months, run as a QI project or minimal-risk study with a readout suitable for a conference abstract.
Next steps
What we're pursuing now
Clinical champions & PI partners
Built alongside a UW Medicine principal investigator through structured feedback rounds. We're looking for additional PI partners in developmental follow-up — and in the specialties where interest has already surfaced: neurodevelopmental care and surgical follow-up, where the same recap + check-in + flag journey fits pre-op preparation and post-op recovery.
Grant applications
Institutional AI and innovation grant programs (clinician-championed, deployable projects); NIH SBIR/STTR with an academic partner (NICHD fits the population); and HRSA maternal-and-child-health-adjacent opportunities. A working product with a named clinical champion is the strongest possible application.
Integration groundwork
Epic After-Visit-Summary ingestion and flag write-back via FHIR, hospital security review, and carrier registration for the SMS program — each already has a defined seam in the codebase.
Interested in piloting, partnering, or funding?
We'd love to talk — clinicians, program leaders, and funders alike.
Between Visits is an early-stage pilot. No real patient information is used at this stage; example families are illustrative.