Sidekick Lite — Real-time telehealth assistant

Explain medical terms and suggest questions during telehealth visits

Problem

Patients often struggle to understand medical jargon during telehealth visits and forget to ask important questions. Existing tools are either post-visit transcription or generic notes, not real-time assistance.

Solution

Sidekick Lite joins the telehealth call as a browser extension or floating window, listens for keywords, explains terms in plain language, and suggests useful questions. After the visit it generates a summary and next steps that can be shared with family.

Users

Chronic patients, elderly patients, and their caregivers who use telehealth frequently.

MVP

Chrome extension overlay; browser speech-to-text; real-time medical term matching and explanations; clickable question suggestions; post-visit summary and to-do list.

Revenue

Subscription: personal plan monthly, family plan for shared summaries; partner with insurers or employer health benefits.

Why now

Telehealth is routine, speech recognition and LLM explanation costs are low, and indie developers can ship a lightweight extension to validate a narrow use case.