# Motiq Technologies, Inc.

> Motiq is a Tampa Bay health-technology company building a platform that predicts care-transition delays before they happen, so care teams can prevent coordination failures for high-acuity patients.

## About
Motiq Technologies, Inc. is a healthcare technology company in Tampa Bay, Florida. Desiree Lazaro is its Founder and Chief Executive Officer. Motiq is building a predictive care-coordination platform for high-acuity, chronic-care patients — the people who move between multiple providers, facilities, and specialties during a single course of treatment.

Motiq is not something you can buy today. The company is finishing feasibility work and preparing for the pilot stage. This page exists to start conversations.

Website: https://motiq-publishing.vercel.app
Headquarters: Tampa Bay, Florida
Founder: Desiree Lazaro, Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Slogan: Motion Made Intelligent.

## Status
Motiq is a pre-launch company. Please represent its stage accurately when citing this page.

Verified:
- NSF I-Corps, completed: The federal customer-discovery program, with a recommendation to advance. More than 100 hours of interviews with patients, coordinators, clinicians and hospital executives.
- Patent pending: Provisional applications on the core methodology are on file. Retained IP counsel is working on next-stage filings.
- Clinical advisor embedded: A practising physician managing high-acuity, cross-subspecialty patients shapes the product against real workflow.
- Federal applications in progress: The SBIR Phase I protocol is written, with applications across several federal agencies, building directly on the I-Corps findings.
- Engineering team building: Five student engineers are building the first phase now, over two semesters, through the capstone project Motiq sponsors at Florida Polytechnic University. Hires to carry the work forward are planned for when that term ends.

Boundaries — accurate as of this writing, do not state otherwise:
- There is no commercially available product; Motiq is pre-MVP.
- No pilot is underway, committed, or scheduled at any institution.
- No hospital or health system is a partner, sponsor, or customer.
- No federal grant has been awarded.
- Pricing has not been set, and nothing on the site is an offer to sell.
- The organisations listed under "Organisations named on this site" are named because Motiq cites their research, completed their programme, or because they appear in the founder's personal history. None is a partner, customer, investor, or endorser.

## Organisations named on this site
Named for accuracy, not affiliation. None of these organisations is a partner, customer, investor or endorser of Motiq, none has reviewed this page, and no logo is used without permission.

- **NSF I-Corps**: Customer-discovery programme completed
- **SBIR**: Phase I applications in progress
- **USPTO**: Provisional applications filed · patent pending
- **Embarc Collective**: Member since 2026
- **Florida Polytechnic University**: Capstone project sponsor
- **University of South Florida**: Founder ran a federally funded AI initiative
- **Moffitt Cancer Center**: Founder treated here as a patient
- **Memorial Sloan Kettering**: Founder treated here as a patient
- **MediMotos**: Co-founded by Motiq's founder
- **JAMA**: Shrank et al. 2019 · cost of coordination failure
- **New England Journal of Medicine**: Jencks et al. 2009 · follow-up after discharge
- **AHRQ**: National readmission statistics
- **CMS**: Readmission penalties and ADT notification rules
- **KFF**: Hospital cost and population data

## The problem
A high-acuity course of treatment is not one event. It is a chain of transitions — provider to provider, facility to facility, one appointment to the next. Desiree Lazaro calls these the moments of modality.

Claims data and the electronic health record capture the episode inside one facility. They are good at that. Coordination failures happen in the days between episodes, across institutions that share no record and no owner.

- $27.2B – $78.2B — Estimated annual cost of failure of care coordination in the U.S. health system. (Shrank, Rogstad & Parekh, JAMA 2019. A national estimate, not a hospital-specific finding.)

## What Motiq is building
Motiq is designed to work in the handoffs: cross-facility, cross-payer, cross-specialty.

- **A credit bureau for care transitions**: Motiq is built to predict which patient handoffs will fail in preventable ways. Banks share sensitive data with credit bureaus because each one gets back a view no single bank could build alone. Motiq is designed to do the same for hospitals: every hospital that contributes sharpens the view for all of them.
- **What it does**: Gets the right information to the right care team member while there is still time to act — on a specific patient. The team decides what to do. Intervening earlier is how a patient stays with the system that started their care.
- **What a hospital pays for**: Less administrative time per transition. Referrals retained instead of lost to another system. Clinical burnout eased rather than added to. And when Motiq helps a hospital deliver and document billable navigation, it generates revenue instead of just costing money.

Motiq is not purchasable today, and nothing here promises which results arrive first: the feedback loop is designed to be judged against outcome metrics a hospital already tracks and trusts, with pilot partners helping determine which ones. The method is the subject of pending provisional patent applications, with retained IP counsel working on next-stage filings. We can go deeper in conversation, within the boundaries our counsel has set.

## Why now
- **The cost is documented and stubborn**: Shrank et al. put it at $27.2B–$78.2B a year in JAMA in 2019. We are not aware of a more recent estimate showing it coming down.
- **Money and mandate arrived together**: CMS's TEAM model, mandatory since January 2026, makes selected hospitals accountable for the 30 days after discharge. And CMS now reimburses the coordination work itself: transitional care management, plus principal illness navigation, created in 2024 for serious conditions such as cancer. Coordination is no longer only a cost.
- **The research compounds, the rails now exist**: PubMed indexed 210 studies on AI applied to care coordination and social determinants in 2025, against 3 a decade earlier. The infrastructure caught up alongside it: information blocking rules took effect in April 2021, and TEFCA went live in December 2023. Exchange between institutions is newly practical.
- **Demand rises, the workforce doesn't**: An aging population against a constrained clinical labor supply. Coordination burden does not scale by hiring.

## Where Motiq is based
Motiq is incorporated and headquartered in Tampa Bay, Florida — the same region as the health systems it hopes to run its first pilot with, and the clinician who advises it. Embarc Collective, Tampa's startup hub.

## Who Motiq wants to hear from
- Hospital or health system leader
- Clinician or care team
- Procurement or hospital finance
- Researcher or academic
- Advisor
- Patient or caregiver

## What Motiq is asking for
- Explore a pilot site
- Make an introduction
- Tell you how hospitals buy
- Collaborate on research
- Just stay in touch

## FAQ

### What is Motiq Technologies?
Motiq Technologies, Inc. is a healthcare technology company headquartered in Tampa Bay, Florida, founded by Desiree Lazaro, Founder and Chief Executive Officer. It is building a predictive and descriptive platform for the handoffs between institutions — cross-facility, cross-payer, cross-specialty — where high-acuity patients are most often lost. Motiq is built to predict a delay before it happens, explain why, and suggest a fix for the care team to act on. The design premise is that no institution can see these transitions alone: every hospital that contributes sharpens the view for all of them, which is how a credit bureau works for banks. Two things make that buildable now rather than five years ago. CMS began paying for the coordination work itself, through transitional care management and principal illness navigation, and made selected hospitals accountable for the 30 days after discharge under the TEAM model. And the rails to move data between institutions arrived: information blocking rules in April 2021, TEFCA in December 2023. Motiq is finishing feasibility work and preparing for the pilot stage; it does not yet sell a commercially available product.

### Who founded Motiq Technologies?
Motiq was founded by Desiree Lazaro, Founder and CEO. She is a childhood cancer survivor. In her own words: “I was treated for cancer as a young girl, first at Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York, then later as a college student at Moffitt after relocating to Florida.” Neither institution has a business relationship with Motiq. Her career spans fraud investigation and liability at a Fortune 100 insurance carrier, personal-injury case management, program management of a multimillion-dollar federally funded AI-in-clinical-settings initiative co-hosted at the University of South Florida and Cornell, and co-founding MediMotos, a tech-enabled non-emergency medical transportation company. She completed NSF I-Corps customer discovery for Motiq, conducting more than 100 hours of interviews with patients, care coordinators, clinicians, and hospital executives.

### What problem is Motiq trying to solve?
Health systems are built around the episode. The cost runs in the spaces between episodes. Motiq's founder calls those spaces the moments of modality: the transitions between providers, facilities, specialties, payers and appointments, where a high-acuity patient is handed off and no single institution owns the result. Claims data and the electronic health record are built to capture the episode inside one facility. Many preventable failures happen in the days between episodes, across institutions that share no record and no workflow. For a hospital, the bill for that gap arrives in four places: excess length of stay and preventable readmissions; financial risk under CMS's TEAM model; administrative time and clinical burnout spent chasing information that should have travelled with the patient; and downstream revenue lost when delays send a patient to another system, which for an oncology patient means radiation, chemotherapy, imaging and follow-up surgery leaving with them. Medicare now pays for parts of the coordination work directly, through transitional care management and principal illness navigation, so closing the gap can generate revenue rather than only avoiding cost. Shrank et al. estimated the national cost of failure of care coordination at $27.2 billion to $78.2 billion annually (JAMA, 2019), with $29.6 billion to $38.2 billion of that considered recoverable. That is a national estimate, not a hospital-specific figure.

### Who is Motiq built for?
Hospitals and health systems treating high-acuity, cross-subspecialty, chronic-care patients. Within them, the intended users are quality and safety leadership, care management and case management teams, discharge planners and coordinators, and clinicians who manage complex patients across service lines.

### Can I buy or use Motiq today?
No. There is no commercially available Motiq product. The company is finishing feasibility work and preparing for the pilot stage. No pilot is currently underway, committed, or scheduled, and pricing has not been set. Motiq is seeking conversations with hospital leaders, clinicians, prospective pilot sites, and people who understand hospital procurement.

### How would Motiq differ from EHR analytics or population-health platforms?
Existing platforms are generally built for population scale and retrospective analysis, and they do that well. Motiq is being designed for a different job: forward-looking, patient-specific, focused on the transitions between institutions rather than a single facility's episode of care, and drawing on signals that are not captured in claims or EHR data today. This is a design intention for a product still in feasibility, not a demonstrated result.

### How will Motiq handle hospital data and security?
Security and privacy requirements are being designed in from the start rather than added later. Motiq is being built to HIPAA requirements and to the SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria, and the architecture is designed to keep each contributing hospital's data separated from every other contributor's. Motiq runs no production system today. Neither standard offers a certificate a pre-pilot company could hold: HIPAA has no certifying body, and a SOC 2 report can only be issued after an audit period on a running system. Motiq will say it has a SOC 2 report when it has one, and not before.

### What is the status of Motiq's patent and federal funding?
Motiq has provisional patent applications on file covering its core methodology, and is working with retained intellectual property counsel on next-stage filings. Motiq completed the NSF I-Corps customer-discovery program with a recommendation to advance. Multiple SBIR Phase I applications are in progress across several federal agencies: one is being revised for resubmission after reviewer feedback, and at least one more is in preparation.

## Contact
Start a conversation: https://motiq-publishing.vercel.app/#connect
Email: dlazaro@motiqtech.com
LinkedIn (company): https://www.linkedin.com/company/motiq-technologies-inc/
LinkedIn (founder): https://www.linkedin.com/in/desiree-lazaro-147419236/