Parents' Involvement Is Crucial

The concept of Hi Rasmus, a Danish Health Tech Company, was inspired by the founder’s son, Rasmus, who was diagnosed with autism at an early age. Despite being a resourceful family with access to some of the world’s leading experts in the field, the parents felt it was stressful and a constant battle to access the right treatments and evaluate the science behind it all.

A new approach is needed

To meet these frustrations, Hi Rasmus has developed a digital platform - an evidence-based autism treatment that also focuses on the parents’ involvement. The platform targets the private and public clinics, however, they can then offer the parents to join the platform. This will get them free access to live updating information on their child’s progress and tools to, e.g., manage difficult situations with their child which will decrease stress-level significantly for families.

Often, parents have very little experience with what their child goes through living with autism. However, they wish to be involved in the treatment and progress of their child. In addition, the current lack of parental involvement in autism treatment leads to waste of important knowledge about the child’s everyday life at home and parents feel disconnected from their child’s development.

In current behavioural treatments, data is only collected from clinical settings by specialized care takers. Moreover, parents are only offered a single report every three months presenting their child’s learnings and targets for the following three months.

A better collaboration between home and clinic

Yet, research shows that parent-led involvement is critical for effective treatment. Therefore, Hi Rasmus aims to be the first Collaborative Treatment Platform where the child and the parents are in focus. By facilitating parental involvement, Hi Rasmus will make autism treatment a collaborative project between clinic, child and parents. This will enable the best treatment for each individual child.

Parents get the opportunity to follow and contribute to their child’s treatment, and clinics can gather data from the home environment. This gives a wider insight into the child’s behaviour in their accustomed environment, which is otherwise unexplored ground for the therapists. 

Hi Rasmus Got Innobooster Funding

In collaboration with Nordic Innovators, Hi Rasmus received a grant from the Innobooster programme.  Moreover, Hi Rasmus is a part of the ecosystem Health Tech Hub Copenhagen and has been named start-up of the week by the leading Danish tech media TechSavvy.