MathHealth — Cancer Treatment [SVIA]
Our team’s goal is to improve Cancer treatment by creating a cheaper, safer, and more reliable treatment method with the use of a mathematical model.
During our first meeting we decided to pain storm and put down possible customer segments, potential value propositions, our key activities and the resources we would require. This established certain tasks we wanted to do, to attain the main goals.
- To create and publish a mathematical model on which we would base the treatment plan and medical machinery/equipment used to deliver it (treatment).
- To license the mathematical model (intellectual property) to various parties for their use.
- Selling the machinery to hospitals.
- Continually testing our treatment method for improvement.
- Using feedback from doctors and cancer patients for improvement of equipment and the methodology.
Quickly we moved to creating a rough Business Model Canvas to clarify and structure our thoughts.
This helped us identify that we had multiple customer segments. Hospitals, who would buy the machine used to deliver the treatment. Cancer patients-opting to undergo this treatment. Then we linked to the value proposition, by comparison with other treatments whose pitfalls were mainly large side effects and high costs. The unique value to provide would be cost saving and a less debilitating treatment. This sort of task is not easy, so we listed resources needed to to carry it out.
- Researchers in the medical field
- Relevant engineers,
were the two that came to mind. The institutions where we could get access to them would be centers for medical research, hospitals, etc. The next step is to start narrowing down which places to get these resources from.
