Philip Payne started Dublin telemedicine startup Apportis in 2015, after a career in product marketing and product development began taking him too far from home and away from his young family.
His initial idea consisted of a HIPAA compliant, health and wellness platform connecting patients with doctors and nutritionists through embedded video components, and accessed on a device like a cell phone or PC.
But when the Ohio Third Frontier Opioid Technology Challenge came along in 2017, the company considered modifying the platform it had already created. The company entered the connect category of the challenge, which is specifically geared toward communication technology solutions that give people with addictions in rural and remote areas an instant way to access resources during times of crisis.
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