TRIAGE PROJECT

Healthcare community service delivered by volunteers through a clinical training and screening application.

1.  The Problem: Developing countries suffer from high mortality rates resulting from preventable and manageable diseases. Commonest conditions include: Coronary Heart Disease Stroke, Influenza, Diabetes Mellitus, Kidney Disease. These illnesses are treatable with adequate education and access to basic medical health care.

2. The Solution: THE WORLD’S FIRST DIY COMMUNITY HEALTH SOLUTION. THE TRIAGE APP LEVERAGES SMART PHONE TECHNOLOGY TO CLINICALLY ENABLE A VOLUNTEER NETWORK.

3. Impact: 

i .Reduce hospital acute conditions in ER

ii.  Reduce economic burden on chronic conditions for long stay patients

iii.  Public health education especially to underserved populations, offering preventative medicine and early screening at the field level

iv. Trains & empowers local community population with knowledge to give community health screenings and education

v. Collect vital information from rural areas about housing, health and disaster/crisis information

vi. Assist government in improving our knowledge of the state of Saudi health, & mitigate and manage preventable health risks

First clinical skills training application in the world (english & arabic) with levels for different types of users ((no medical background to health care professional) and flag system to scale urgency of care needed for patients. Volunteers trained in conducting a clinical examination using app and digibook within app.  Workshops evaluate volunteers in proficiency in app use and clinical questioning, then access is given to a level of the app.  We go into homes of the rural communities and do a thorough medical review.  Algorithm converts data to medical report that's shared with local hospitals and charities. 

The entire program is based on the app. We train the volunteers using the app.  We collect and store the data via the app.  We give digital GPS addresses to the homes we visit using an in app QR system. I am now trying to raise funds to do the training online instead of at the in person workshops.

Improve the UX of the app. Convert the workshop training and evaluation into an online system to make it globally accessible. Expand the database to handle global input. Add disaster relief and humanitarian crises screening to be shared with UN and other such agencies as needed.Use QR address system to create visual data analytics to scale the epidemiology of disease and income and lifestyle across the communities.

Expand across the globe to empower ALL people at the ground level to engage in health and life data collection.

Improve the referral time for sick people to healthcare centers

Improve the speed and specific requirements of needs of people during a disaster or crisis.

Use the collected data to improve government census data that traditionally only collects from people who can afford to go to a hospital.

Have a more detailed visual dashboard to overview the disease trends to correlate with the household data and QR addresses.

Solution will be deployed globally by online training system in default language of the user that accesses the site.

The application will expand to include Alzheimers screening and other major screening tools.  We want to include a dental service during the FIELD TRIPS and if we partner with a pharmacy give out first aid kits and glucometers etc.

The communities will receive visits from our ground teams.  They can then also access the health brochures that are already on the app.

Population:  we have visited and served 873(about 1.400 people) households in poor areas, mostly with women and children who do not have transportation to hospitals or any knowledge of basic hygiene or health.

We have trained 1000 volunteers, 600 of which are active.  

For each patient/ household we visit, we send a formal medical report to local charities and hospitals to ask for healthcare for those in need, with a level of urgency marked.

When we can't afford the bills, we ask for CSR from the hospitals, and if we still can't allocate the funds, I pay from my own pocket. 

Over 12 months : maintain the aprx. 1,400 patients,expect  another 400 patients this year. Field trips in Uber cars, to the neighbourhoods, knock door to door offering services.

In 3 years:  TURN KEY, leaders are healthcare workers who pass the training exam, will take volunteers who pass exam into the field, then collected data into reports to supporting agencies.

I am a physician, and do Epidemiology research at the hospital where i work, and this helps me to identify trends that would help the service offering. our team is bilingual (english & arabic) so IT and medical contributors can prepare questions and database to work with both. Our volunteers love the work and the people we visit are so appreciative that it gives us energy to keep going.

Currently the costs come out of my pocket and will continue to do so until i can find the right funding. If we stay as is, we can manage.  To scale up and go global, we need to do online training and this will take money, I have spoken to disasterready.com and they want a large amount of money to do this and to give us the disaster relief questions for screening. then to handle the global scale data and data visuals.

MIT is the ONLY go to for IT solutions.  I believe that MIT will recognize the potential.  Also, MIT can offer exposure to the right groups and can offer me exposure to similar minded groups.  The funding will be REALLY useful so that I don't go broke keeping my project alive.

Expansion via online training:  SOLVE CAN HELP

Exposure and marketing:  SOLVE can help

Funding for expansion for application and online training.