Lighthouse: Transforming Organizational Health Management
A comprehensive health management platform designed to help organizations protect their populations, maintain compliance with health protocols, and coordinate health events efficiently for the film and entertainment industry.
The challenge
Daybreak Health partnered with major entertainment companies across the U.S. film industry. Our research revealed that production companies were allocating significant portions of their budgets to COVID-19 compliance and testing operations. While a California Film Commission study found that major productions spent between 5-6.5% of their budgets on COVID protocols, real-world costs frequently reached 10-30% of total budgets, especially for productions involving travel and quarantine requirements.
The financial stakes were enormous. Films with budgets over $60 million allocated an average of $5.6 million to COVID compliance alone. For smaller productions, the burden was equally significant. A six-week shoot with 23 crew members could spend 12% of the entire budget just on testing.
When outbreaks occurred, the costs multiplied. Production shutdowns meant paying entire crews while idle, then rehiring once filming could resume. Those costs could exceed 10% of total production budgets or hundreds of thousands of dollars per incident. For some productions, added precautions and protocols added approximately $120,000 per week to operating costs.
During a conversation with a line producer, we identified a critical gap: there was no centralized system to track testing status, view results for cast and crew, or manage isolation protocols. Without visibility into their population's health status, productions were operating blind, unable to prevent outbreaks or respond quickly when they occurred. This insight became the catalyst for Lighthouse.
Financial impact
Films with budgets over $60 million allocated an average of $5.6 million to COVID compliance alone. For smaller productions, a six-week shoot with 23 crew members could spend 12% of the entire budget just on testing. When outbreaks occurred, production shutdowns meant paying entire crews while idle, then rehiring once filming could resume. Those costs could exceed 10% of total production budgets or hundreds of thousands of dollars per incident.
The solution
Lighthouse provided three core capabilities: Clinical Guidance & Support for access to expert-reviewed guidelines and educational materials, Compliance Dashboard for monitoring organization-wide health protocol compliance through intuitive dashboards, and Event Coordination for scheduling and managing health events to provide employees with timely access to necessary care.
User groups
The platform serves four distinct user classes:
Employers & people managers
- Line producers and PA coordinators (TV/Film) - School principals (Education) - COVID compliance officers - HR managers - C-suite executives
Patients/participants
- Union and non-union film/TV personnel (Zone A, B, C classifications) - Students and teachers - Hotel staff and guests - Event staff (concerts, live events, theater, sporting events)
Clinical staff (Daybreak Health)
- Nurses - Primary care physicians - EMTs - Health coaches
Operations team
- Daybreak Health operations staff who approve and coordinate events
Key features
Feature map
High-level product backlog for Lighthouse V1, organized by functional area: sign-up and account creation, account management, home and patient list (testing), messaging, education, billing, and risk modeling.
Interactive board (same structure as the map above):
Sign up / Account Creation
12 features
Account
9 features
Home / Patient List (Testing...)
21 features
Messaging
7 features
Education
6 features
Billing
6 features
Risk Modeling holistic data
4 features
None
Onboarding & setup
Admin login with role-based access, comprehensive profile creation with testing location preferences (on-site, at-home PCR, or both), organization creation and volume estimation, and testing event configuration with patient assignment.
Dashboard & monitoring (web)
Multi-organization view for admins managing multiple entities, real-time testing event overview, high-level compliance dashboard highlighting at-risk patients, and quick navigation to organization-specific details.
Compliance dashboard
Monitor organization-wide health protocol compliance
At risk individuals
3| Name | Role | Issue | Last test | Status | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sarah Johnson | Cinematographer | Test expired 3 days ago | 2024-02-12 | Overdue | |
| Michael Chen | Sound Engineer | Pending test result | 2024-02-15 | Pending | |
| Emma Rodriguez | Production Assistant | Test expired 1 day ago | 2024-02-14 | Overdue |
Recent testing events
Results management
Patient list view organized within testing events, advanced filtering (name, test type, results status, timestamp), individual patient result details (positive, negative, pending), direct communication options (text/email to patient or Daybreak Health), and COVID-19 result tracking (extensible for additional test types).
Event coordination
Event request submission with 24-48 hour approval workflow and operations team review and approval process.
Request new event
Fill in the basic details for your testing event
Mobile app view for requesting an event.
Components
Date range picker
A calendar component for selecting date ranges, used throughout the platform for scheduling events and filtering results by time periods.
Impact
Lighthouse transformed how organizations manage population health by consolidating testing coordination, compliance tracking, and result management into a single, intuitive platform. By providing real-time visibility into testing status and results, Lighthouse helped productions prevent costly outbreaks through proactive monitoring, respond quickly when positive cases emerged to minimize shutdown risk, reduce administrative burden and eliminate manual tracking processes, and optimize COVID compliance spending by streamlining testing coordination.
For an industry where a single outbreak could cost hundreds of thousands of dollars and halt production for weeks, Lighthouse delivered the visibility and control needed to keep sets safe and productions on schedule.