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Well, we have our next guest here. Hello.

Hey, how are you doing?

Fantastic. How are you?

I'm doing well. Thank you. Thanks for having me.

Absolutely. Go ahead and introduce yourself for me.

Yeah, my name is Andrew Hourani, founder, and CEO of EveryDose. We're a medication management company.

Okay, and how do we? How do we manage medication?

So we have a mobile app, which you see a screenshot behind me that helps patients stay on track with their daily medications. Seven in ten Americans take at least on that occasion, at age one, or more. So we make that process really easy for people, we give them reminders when it's time to take a dose of medication, they can check off what they take and learn about their medications and share the progress with doctors. Lots of great features, but we just take the headache out of managing daily medication.

That's fantastic. Obviously, anybody who is dealing with, you know, a long-term or chronic issue has tons of medications, and it can be a real challenge to keep track of all of that.

It really is. It is not easy to do. And actually the reason I started a company was, I had a loved one, one of my parents, they got discharged from the hospital, hadn't taken medication, and had a lot of problems with it. So it is certainly not easy at all for patients to do and, and one of the problems is if you don't actually take those medications as prescribed, and you have a chronic disease. Obviously, you know, bad things can happen. You can end up hospitalized, and it costs the healthcare system a lot of money every year as well. So we're trying to just alleviate that burden for people. And also, you know, help hospitals, insurance companies, make sure that their populations have really good health and are actually taking the medications that they're prescribed.

Yeah, and that's, that's an interesting point. You know, too much of the world doesn't focus enough on preventative measures, like you said, you know, missing a couple of doses can end up costing the person, both in finances and in long term, you know, health changes.

Absolutely. And it's not easy. You may feel good on a particular day. And you think, maybe I don't need to take this medication today. But really, a lot of these drugs you need to take every day. And if you think of more severe diseases, like cancer that has a lot to do, sometimes an oral chemotherapy pill, they're not taking that drug are really significant. And, you know, we have just seen patients deserve technology tools to help them with this. Just be sent home with a stack of papers, they should have tools that really add value to their daily life. And people are used to technology these days, you know, so, you know, we've seen great reception from patients, we have 10s of 1000s of people that use the app, they love it, and we're excited to kind of keep it growing.

Yeah, that's a great, great goal. We were actually in our office. The other day, we were actually talking about exactly that whole thing like, well, I'm feeling better. Maybe I don't need to take it being a really common situation in mental health drugs. You're like, Oh, I'm feeling normal. I'm feeling myself. Maybe I don't need the medication. It's like, no, no, that's why you're feeling normal and feeling yourself is because of the medication. Please keep doing it.

Right? That's absolutely right. And I think one thing, maybe that can be done better in the healthcare system, and we're trying to do through our app is not only you know, help people take the medication, but help them understand what you just said which is these medications are incredibly important. Here's why they're important. And, you know, giving people content and things where they can actually learn about the importance of medications, which really goes beyond just taking them but I think it's important for patients to know why they're taking medication.

Sure. Okay. So let's talk about where this fits into my day. Let's say I take five pills in the morning, five pills in the evening. Where exactly does your app fit into my day?

Yeah, so when you first download the app, first of all, you're either going to enter medications into our app, which is a super easy process. Or if you're part of a hospital that we work with, for example, your medications will automatically get synced to the app. But the first time you download it, you'll say, Hey, I take these five drugs in the morning, these three at night. And after that, it's all set up and we automate everything else. So you would say it's 8 am, and you got those five medications do, you would get a notification on your phone, just like when you get a text message or anything else. And it would say, hey, time to take these five medications, you could open the app, say I took them, and you're just going on with your day from then on out. And when it comes nighttime, you might be busy, you might have forgotten about those medications, we're going to make sure we alert you right at 7 pm or whenever you're supposed to take those doses in an automatic way give me. So you don't have to keep thinking, Did I take that? Did I forget to take that? We're gonna fit in, in a really seamless way in your day.

Gotcha. Okay. And, so if I want to use this, what are my costs? How does this work?

So the beauty of this is, as a patient, our app is always 100% free. So you could add and your listeners could right now go to the App Store on Apple, go to the Google Play Store. And you can download this app for free. You can use it for free. We don't sell your data, we don't do anything like that. Our business model is to go out to hospitals and other healthcare organizations to help them help their patients. So for any user, you can just simply download the app and use it for free. The app is called EveryDose. You can learn more at everydose.ai, our website, but it is always free to use which, you know, the reason I mentioned I started the company was to help out a family member. So we're trying to do the same in other people's families and just give them great technology that helps them become healthier, but also is not a cost burden to them, which is, you know, healthcare is incredibly costly these days. So we're kind of a breath of fresh air giving them a free product.

Very cool. And if I, if I'm not mistaken, there was a branding change. Right?

Exactly. Yeah. So I started the company. About four years ago, we've been called Groove Health until Wednesday, so we've had great success with Groove Health. We've, you know, grown the company a lot. But this coming year, we have a lot of growth ahead of us. And we're super excited about it. So we went ahead and did a rebrand to EveryDose, which we felt like it is a better descriptor of what we do and better branding. So you're exactly right, where we're now EveryDose prior. If your listeners may have heard of us, we were called Groove Health, so we're super excited about that change. And we also released a couple of new features for the app on Wednesday as well, one called Family Hub that lend to you manage medications for the whole family, not just yourself. You might be an elderly parent or a child. So a lot of announcements here at CES was very excited about

Yeah, that's a great feature. I have, I have a, I'll say a bigger product for my mother, from a past CES. That's a dispenser and everything. And, that ability to manage and maintain remotely is a fantastic aspect. I know if something was skipped, because it lets me know, on its own.

Right. That's very important. We do the same thing. And there are millions of Americans that care for aging parents and are responsible for giving them medications. And also, you know, a lot of parents that have children that might be sick, and they have to manage five or ten medications. So this new set of features we've released makes that a lot easier and relieves a lot of burden for people on a daily basis.

Yeah, for sure. That's a great capability. And I know a lot of people are going to appreciate that feature. Well.

Thank you. Yeah, we're excited to get it rolled out.

For sure. Now if people want to find out more about the platform and what you guys are up to. How can I do that?

Yeah, so first of all, you could go to the Apple App Store and read about our app there. You could search EveryDose on the Apple App Store. Search EveryDose on the Google Play Store. Read about our app there. Or you could go to our website, which is everydose.ai and learn more about the company and what we do there.

I really appreciate you coming on and talking about this. And you know, being able to give us a view from the show floor because you're really far from where our broadcast tower was.

Absolutely, this is a huge place. So thanks for taking me for a walk over there.

Absolutely. Well, thanks for coming on. And hopefully you'll have a good rest of the show. I know you've got just a little bit of time left.

Yep, yep. Thank you for having me. I enjoyed it.

Absolutely. All right. Have a good one.

You too.

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