In our latest interview installment we talk to Armen Allahverdian, VP of Digital marketing & UX Practice Lead at ChartSpan. He has over 13 years of mobile, mainstream marketing and sales experience in both B2B and B2C markets. Here’s how our interview went…

How would you pitch your company? What’s your elevator pitch?

ChartSpan is a consumer healthcare data company. Consumers use ChartSpan’s Patient Platform to manage their electronic healthcare records and information on their smartphone, tablet or computer.

What sets you apart from competitors?

ChartSpan collects and centralizes the management of electronic, patient healthcare data utilizing machine learning, optical character recognition (OCR) and our own patent pending technology. Through innovative data recognition technology, ChartSpan turns paper healthcare records into electronic records, generating structured data and eliminating the need for manual entry of personal healthcare record data. ChartSpan users can also import electronic faxes, emails, patient portal records, PDF documents, images and, soon, BlueButton+ records.

What’s your business model?

Our app is available for patients to download for free. We manage a permission-based and anonymous, de-identified data platform, generated by patients through our Patient Platform. ChartSpan partners with hospitals, doctors, pharma, medical device, public health agencies and researchers to aggregate critical healthcare data that contributes to improved patient outcomes, reduced mortality rates, improved drug efficacy and effective clinical trials.

Where do you see the company going from here?

Sky is the limit. We have many different strategies in our company roadmap. The beauty of our space is that it’s new, and every day a window of opportunity can be presented. At the end of the day, we want to become the app which patients in United States use to manage their healthcare records.

Where do you see the mHealth industry going? How long are we from seeing modern mHealth technologies going mainstream?

Smartphones, wearable tech are here to stay and are only going to get better. The demand (patients) keep increasing; there will always be a shortage supply (providers). The promise of mHealth may finally allow supply to meet the demand, allowing providers using mobile technologies to monitor patient health or even diagnose remotely. However, I believe we are about 5-10 years away from interoperability and mainstream mHealth technologies.