Dr. Wilman Ortega is a pulmonologist at Mercy Hospital working to improve telemedicine capabilities. Mercy is a forerunner in the field of using telemedicine (virtual and/or remote care), as a way to provide cheap, reliable treatment to patients who lack access to specialists. Specifically, Dr. Ortega is looking for a way to monitor the lung sounds and symptoms of frequent hospital patients from home. The hospital’s current method for obtaining patient data is to have nurses call patients at home once a day and ask them a ten minute questionnaire about their symptoms. This does not include any biological recording. As Mercy monitors over three thousand patients every year, this process represents a large strain on hospital financial and manpower resources. In general, the market for telemedicine solutions has expanded massively in both scale and valuation; the industry has grown two and a half times, from $14.3 billion to $36.2 billion, since 2014. While initial booms in telemedicine have focused on providing care to remote and developing countries, there is still a substantial untapped financial potential for domestically-focused solutions that can be easily integrated into the existing US healthcare system. The ability to provide basic at-home data acquisition and diagnostic services to patients who would normally need to make repeated hospital visits, or lengthy and potentially inaccurate phone surveys, is one such underdeveloped submarket.