Young children have 6–8 respiratory illnesses a year — and and the full pattern is easy to miss.
The child is usually well by the time of the visit, and the parent’s account arrives scattered and easily dismissed — so treatable conditions like asthma, allergy, and reflux get missed for months or years. MamaBear captures what a parent observes at home and brings it to the clinician as structured evidence, so the pattern gets recognized early. A USDA-developed, store-and-forward platform built for rural and Tribal families video telehealth can’t reach.
The signal is lost between visits
- ✕The parent is the only continuous witness — and that account is easily dismissed
- ✕The child is usually well by the visit, so the clinician sees a fragment, not the arc
- ✕Recurring episodes scatter across visits no single clinician assembles
- ✕Treatable conditions go unrecognized for months or years
- ✕Rural, low-bandwidth families can’t reliably reach video telehealth at all
- ✕Well-visit gaps widen — no structured follow-up pathway
The pattern reaches the clinician
- ✓The parent captures the episode at home, in the moment — symptoms, exposures, breathing video
- ✓A structured summary reaches the clinician for the next in-person visit
- ✓The longitudinal pattern is visible — the clinician sees what a single visit misses
- ✓The clinician interprets and decides — MamaBear presents the evidence, it does not diagnose
- ✓Works on ordinary cell service — built for the families video can’t reach
- ✓Condition-specific parent education and well-visit reminders delivered automatically
Captured at home. Read at the visit.
MamaBear is asynchronous, store-and-forward telemedicine. It rides the in-person visit you’re already having — no live appointments, no monitoring queue, no after-hours obligation, no IT build.
What your team gains
The pattern, made visible
Across episodes, MamaBear assembles the longitudinal record — breathing, exposures, timing, medication response — that lets a clinician recognize an underlying condition the visit alone would miss.
Care continuum activated
One secure weblink travels from clinician to PCP to specialist — the parent’s account, structured, with nothing lost in translation.
Quality metric support
Structured, reportable follow-up data supports quality reporting and value-based care performance — without adding staff burden.
Present, don’t interpret
MamaBear captures and presents structured history. The clinician makes every clinical judgment — no scoring, no flagging, no autonomous decisions. Provider-led by design.
Zero IT lift
No EHR integration required. Works via secure email without any EHR infrastructure. HIPAA-compliant from day one.
Provider owns it
The provider owns the data and the workflow — no vendor lock-in. Aligned with state RHTP technology-track requirements.
MamaBear reduces subjectivity and recall bias. It supports earlier treatment decisions and helps prevent unnecessary testing and hospitalizations.
A pilot first — not a software sale
MamaBear partners with rural providers and Tribal health organizations to set up and test the store-and-forward methodology. The provider leads as the grant applicant; MamaBear is the technology partner. The provider owns the data and the workflow — nothing locks them in.
The read happens inside the in-person visit the provider already conducts, so it adds no separate charge to the family and no new monitoring burden to staff. Where store-and-forward review is independently furnished, established CMS codes may apply at provider discretion.
Store-and-forward billing context
Many state Medicaid programs reimburse store-and-forward services. Billing is at provider discretion and subject to payer rules; MamaBear does not bill on a provider’s behalf.
Built for RHTP technology tracks
MamaBear is a consumer-facing, provider-led digital health tool that supports patients between visits and reinforces clinician-led care — aligned with programs like Nevada’s RHIT Track 3 and other state RHTP digital-health priorities.
Consumer-facing & provider-led
Supports engagement and chronic-disease recognition between visits. Does not diagnose, score, or operate independently of clinician oversight.
Telehealth for low-bandwidth care
Asynchronous, store-and-forward capture reaches rural and frontier families real-time video telehealth cannot.
Chronic disease recognition
Surfaces the pattern that helps clinicians recognize asthma, allergy, and reflux earlier — supporting RHTP chronic-disease goals.
Provider ownership, no lock-in
The provider retains ownership of data and workflow. MamaBear is the methodology partner, not a proprietary system.
A grant-funded pilot, then sustained by value
State RHTP funding sets up and tests the methodology at no cost to the clinic’s margin. At scale, sustainability comes from payers who capture the savings of earlier recognition — not from a fee the clinic or family pays. State program officers, FQHCs, and Tribal health organizations can request our implementation plan.
Let’s set up and test the methodology together
State program officers, hospital systems, FQHCs, and Tribal health organizations can request our full implementation plan.