MOBIMEDICINE : UNIVERSAL MOBILE HEALTH TECHNOLOGY SYSTEM
MOBIMEDICINE is a universal system that utilizes both the mobile and web ecosystems to interact with the patients and general medical practitioners.
About You
About You
First Name
Michael
Last Name
Asola
Twitter URL
http://twitter.com/#!/mikeasola
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About Your Organization
Organization Name
FiberLan Limited
Organization Website
Organization Country
Kenya, NA
Country where this project is creating social impact
Kenya, NA
Is your organization a
For‐profit
How long has your organization been operating?
Less than a year
Has the organization received awards or honors? Please tell us about them
Since it is when we are polishing the program, we have not received any awards or honors but we look forward to many in the near future
References - Please provide two references with a two-sentence biography, email address, and phone number for each
Oscar Ahrere - Oscar is a banker by proffession, he now specializes in IT solutions that marrioes techology with financial products, his contacts are: Tel +254716138621, Email is oahere@gmail.com
Steve Ochuodho - Steve is a Human Resource and Development Consultant in various countries in Africa, he is currently working on a low-cost human resource platform utilizing both mobile and web, his tel, +254721466356 and email is ahero2000@gmail.com
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Innovation
Select the stage that best applies to your solution
Idea (you're poised to launch)
How long have you been in operation?
Still in idea phase, but looking to launch soon
The Need: What problem are you trying to solve?
The world's largest population is suffering from universal access to affordable healthcare. in most parts of the world especially in the emerging or third world economies, the nearest health facility is a days journey and even if it is less in some instances a patient has to set aside a day just to be attended by a health worker. Imagine in the case of a pregnant mother, lactating mothers, the old, the weak, and others who cannot travel those distances? The next thing you hear is that death has robbed a society of a person who would be still be productive who could still play a pivotal role in taking a society to another level.
The Solution: What is your solution? Be specific!
Mobimedicine system is unique in its vision and mission. The system will utilize both the mobile and web ecosystems to interact with the patients and general medical practitioners. It will ensure that people of all walks get desired medical services from one of the tools that has become so dear to them– the mobile phone.
Medical experts will be able to access information in real-time from their mobile devices and also from the web-based back office system. Those with high-end phones can be able to access information from their phones as well. We aim to make it easy for a Community Health Worker to serve many households at any time as they will be the first point of contact, this will include registering people in the platform and also educating them how to use the service.
The Model: Walk us through a specific example of how your solution makes a difference; include your primary activities
Mobimedicine Universal Health Technology System is a very easy to use at all levels, the customer anyone with a mobile phone, the one initiating a request, that is routed to the database for authentication purposes, thereafter the request is forwarded to a registered community worker who will in turn visit the patient within 12hrs.
Health workers will have a realtime interaction with patients by sending them SMS reminders for medication, handling various medical conditions as they arise averting any epidemic situation.
We believe that as soon as a medical condition is tackled the better and this will reduce governments; expenditure towards reacting to situations which could have been dealt with at the early stages of development.
When a a condition is laid bare in plain, simple and friendly language it will be easy to for people to understand thereby creating advance wellness to the community, for example when raining season is about to start, chances are high that there will be mosquitoes that can cause malaria, or situations that can cause cholera and other water borne diseases there can be alerts issued to arrest the imminent situation thereby saving communities from unwanted diseases with death potential. This will also be in line with Millennium Development Goals MDG 4: To reduce child mortality
MDG 5: To improve maternal health, MDG 6: To combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases. All these are supposed to be achieved by the Year 2015. With the adoption of MOBIMEDICINE technology, this can be arrived at sooner than later.
The Marketplace: Who are your peers and competitors? Identify others also working to address the needs you are and what differentiates you from them. What challenges could these players pose to your success or growth?
Mpedigree -MPedigree is a non-profit based in Ghana that advocates for the development of strategies to fight counterfeiting.They work work with technology providers worldwide to bring relief to patients at risk of counterfeit medication in developing nations, where the WHO estimates that up to 30% of drugs could lead to the horrid healthcare crises that fake drugs often unleash.
Difference - This only handles one component in the health ecosystem, MOBIMEDICINE handles all and this can marry comfortably into our solutiuon
EUREKA MOBILE LAB PROJECT- is a new approach to optimize vaccines and healthcare delivery system for effective coverage in the developing world.
Difference, this also handles one component whereas MOBIMEDICINE is a universal platform cutting across all facets.
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Social Impact
Founding Story: We want to hear about your "Aha!" moment. Share the story of where and when the founder(s) saw this solution's potential to change the world.
In 1982 when I was grappling to know how to read and write, I used to see my madam teacher who was also my villager carrying a book with a greenish cover with titles 'Where there's no doctor' By David Werner with Carol Thurman and Jane Maxwell . My efforts to get a glimpse of what the contents were was frustrated by two facts; one, I could not read and understand properly and two, teachers properties were not meant for pupils and they were to be touched by a five foot pole...Much much later when I read the book I came to start thinking of how such a scenario, where there's no doctor can be made extinct, this was compounded by the media reports that kept coming up in most African daily newspapers how the few trained doctors were running away from their countries for better pay in other parts of the world especially the Europe and America. This disturbs. It means that in no time, Africa will not have doctors, or have very few to handle the growing population's health problems.
Please describe the goal of your initiative; outline what you are trying to achieve
MOBIMEDICINE will hasten access to affordable healthcare to the world.MOBIMEDICINE system will facilitate patient symptoms recorded by community health workers to be transmitted in real time to medical staff, enabling the latter to make an immediate response.
It will be used as an information channel to help create better awareness of diseases like HIV/AIDS and TB. Patients will be reminded to take their drugs, and that repeat prescriptions are due.Appointment reminders will also be key to ensuring that patients do not forget to see the doctor at the agreed time. Medical staff will also be equally reminded of the appointment due well in advance.
It will greatly increase the effective reach of health care provision in an affordable way through the existing GSM mobile infrastructure.
What has been the impact of your solution to date?
Improved health outcome- Health workers will have a real-time interaction with patients by sending them SMS reminders for medication, handling various medical conditions as they arise.
Efficiency - We believe that the sooner the medical condition is tackled the better. This definitely reduce government's expenditure towards reacting to situations which could have been dealt with at the early stages of development.
Awareness Creation - When a a condition is laid bare in plain and simple language it will be easy to for people to understand thereby creating advance wellness to the community. This is is in line with Millennium Development Goals 4,5 and 6.
What is your projected impact over the next five years?
The impact of our Universal Mobile Health Technology System will be easy to notice as the child will greatly reduce the spread of communicable diseases. This is because of the immediate response the system will provide. Even the families who do not have mobile phones can use neighbours' phones to send an SMS for the response of Community Health Worker. SMS is contagious and we believe that the viral effect will spread beyond a patient and a CHW. Health education will be greatly enhanced through this means as well. In summary the effect will be reflected back to the savings that the community will experience cumulatively.
Winning entries present a strong plan for how they will achieve and track growth. Identify your six-month milestone for growing your impact
The system is based on a core application hosted in ‘the cloud’. It is therefore wholly scalable simply.
Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your six-month milestone
Task 1
Forging working partnerships with Industry stakeholders including the government for them to see the big picture.
Task 2
Polishing the end product (user interface)so that it is widely acceptable and easy to use
Task 3
Passing the information - We belive that well designed information that is not scary to the users.
Now think bigger! Identify your 12-month impact milestone
Fundnding and mor funding, Continous Development, Interoperability
Identify three major tasks you will have to complete to reach your 12-month milestone
Task 1
Funding, the project must attain a comfortable level of funding
Task 2
Continous Development - We do not stop just because we have launcehd and it is accepted, we keep innovating and polishing
Task 3
Interoperable - Mean systems fail, we have to work with other developers across the globe to make our innovation more friendly
Sustainability
Tell us about your partnerships
Our partnerships started from ourselves, the development team, and those who have provided insightful contributions to this project. We are targeting medical experts, medical students, medical training centres,clinics and NGOs who are committed to working with the communities in the health sector. These are those who are on specialty fields, we are also targeting partnering with community based NGOs, Schools and the local administration. We are also welcoming volunteers especially those who have just completed secondary education and are waiting to join universities and colleges.
Are you currently targeting other specific populations, locations, or markets for your innovation? If so, where and why?
MOBIMEDICINE is universal, it is not meant for a specific population, it is meant for the poor, the middle class and the rich, but mainly our main focus will be to the population that has for many years challenged by ease of access to affordable healthcare. When you look at the vertical and horizontal sectors, all of them needs our service, but most a times, access has been an issue.
The market at first will be the developing countries and mainly for the poor first due to the facts that has been mentioned in the earlier posts. Ease of access to affordable health care
What type of operating environment and internal organizational factors make your innovation successful?
The operating environment is 'Open Source' because of its ease to access and share and also integrate and upgrade. Imagine if all past knowledge was kept hidden or its use was restricted to only those who are willing to pay for it. Education and research would suffer. Publishing books or sharing information of any sort would become difficult. Yet this is the mentality behind the proprietary software model. In the same way shared knowledge propels the whole of society forward, open technology development can drive innovation for an entire industry and this is the philosophy of MOBIMEDICINE. Another is welcoming ideas fr4om withing the organization, sharing freely motivates and builds staff morale. We believe that these policies are the ones that will make us move to greater heights.
Please elaborate on any needs or offers you have mentioned above and/or suggest categories of support that aren't specified within the list
Interoperability- Integration is the arrangement of an organization’s information systems in way that allows them to communicate efficiently and effectively and brings together related parts into a single system. Interoperability is the ability of health information systems to work together within and across organizational boundaries in order to advance the effective delivery of healthcare.
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