MediCapt

Hear the Pitch

The Problem

Every year, tens of thousands of adults and children are raped in conflict zones around the world. Most don’t report these crimes, and when some do, many cases fail due to poor evidence: forensic exams are rarely conducted, charts are incomplete, and clinicians and law enforcement officers don't communicate with each other.

The Solution

To change this trend, Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) created MediCapt, a mobile app that connects medical and legal professionals to transform the documentation and prosecution of human rights violations. MediCapt makes it easier to capture, preserve, and transmit forensic evidence of sexual violence.

The app pairs a digital medical intake form with a secure mobile camera to allow clinicians to take forensic photos, capturing more compelling medical evidence. MediCapt includes sophisticated encryption, cloud data storage, high adherence to chain-of-custody standards, and tamper-proof metadata, so clinicians can securely save the evidence and transmit it to police, lawyers, and judges.

Market Opportunity

• The app was intentionally designed to digitize any forensic form, in any language, and to adhere to the requirements of any legal jurisdiction.
• MediCapt differs from current tools in that it provides a detailed, standardized medical form that guides clinicians in collecting forensic evidence for sexual violence, and to help communicate that evidence to the appropriate authorities.

Organization Highlights

• Endorsed by several governments including the US Department of State, Dutch Foreign Ministry, UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women, World Bank, and more
• Awards: First place in the Safe Documentation category of 2013 USAID/Humanity United Tech Challenge for Atrocity Prevention
• Speaking engagements: International Criminal Court, RightsCon, the World Bank, among others
• Media: Africa News, HuffPost, Reuters, ThinkProgress, New Scientist, Bloomberg, among others, including several peer-reviewed journal articles such as, Genocide Studies and Prevention,  and Global Health: Science and Practice

Existing Partnerships

MediCapt currently partners with stakeholders in Kenya and DRC, including:

• Officials from the national- and county-level health authorities
• Doctors, clinical officers, nurses, community health workers, and hospital administrators in rural and urban health facilities
• Civil society organizations and survivor activists
• Police, lawyers, and judges at the local and national levels

Organization Goals

MediCapt aims to:

• Increase sources of investment and revenue
• Provide its app to more users, countries, and officials

Partnership Goals

To reach these goals, MediCapt seeks partnerships to:

• Consult on scaling digital product to new markets
• Connect to new markets through partnerships with NGOs and governments
• Consult on software security, privacy, interoperability, and open source
• Consult on business strategy as the product scales to new markets