Caare (Assisted Care)

For instance, in India, a (PHC) Primary Healthcare center serves around 30,000 people in the adjacent villages at a distance of 7 to 10 kilometers, while a (CHC) Community Healthcare Centre serves about 80,000 to 100,000 people at a distance of 15 to 25 kilometers.

A pregnant woman would often require a specialist such an obstetrician, gynaecologist, or oncologist. Diabetologists, geriatricians, neurologists, and urologists are needed for chronic and bedridden senior patients. Pediatricians, dermatologists, and eye care professionals would be required for a child. Orthopedists, cardiologists, pulmonologists, and ENT specialists would all be needed for a farmer.

According to statistics from India's National Health Mission, the current issue is that there are no specialist doctors accessible in the closest PHC, and specialists are not present in around 67% of CHCs. Sadly, the majority of the patient profiles mentioned above are not even capable to leave their homes. Furthermore, rural patients avoid PHCs when seeking treatment for diseases including mental health, substance abuse, and sexual health that are stigmatized by society.

Given the major issue of a lack of specialists in rural regions and the general lack of information about healthcare in these regions, we need to propose a simple solution that can deliver both high-quality care and assist in receiving it at home.

We at Caare want to empower the frontline Health workers so that they can become a bridge between the Rural patients and the Senior remote Doctor in the city.

A Community Health worker, Asha Worker, Nurse, Caregiver, Counselor, Lab Technicians, Pathologists, Pharmacists, Paramedics, or any Private Practitioner, at the patient home will simplify the procedure for the patient and doctor, allowing them to give a better treatment plan. Using our idea of Assisted Telemedicine, the most crucial necessity of vital checks for the Doctor is addressed when the Health worker is with the patient at home. With our methodology, we will ensure that the prescriptions to patients are provided by the Senior Doctor who is accessible online with our Mobile App. For every consultation that happens on our platform, we record the details of all the participants involved in the consultation including the Health workers. A separate interface is also developed for Patients, Doctors, and Health workers in the process.

How does CAARE Rural assisted telemedicine model work?

1. Meet the Health worker in your village

Meet the Health worker and he or she will schedule a video consultation with the Senior Doctor based on the need.

2. Consult Senior Doctor

Health workers, who are experienced healthcare professionals, will ask questions and take vitals to share with Senior doctors in real-time.

3. Get treatment like Clinic at Home

Together, the Patient will video chat with the Health worker and the Senior doctor who will provide care, offer a treatment plan and prescribe medication or lab tests.

Proof of Concept - POC / Mobile App in Action

Our strategy has had a significant impact on many rural patients, who now have access to excellent specialty doctors such as oncologists, pediatricians, gynecologists, and orthopedics directly in their own homes. We also make a significant difference by addressing challenges such as a shortage of specialist doctors in rural regions, distance and transportation, social stigma and privacy concerns, and poor health literacy. Another big issue that we are able to solve is the language barrier because our trained health workers can communicate with specialist doctors from metropolitan regions and thus aid rural communities in understanding the specialist doctors.

We have the right mixture of Domain expertise, technical expertise, and operational expertise to carry out this project successfully.

Currently, we are building Rural clinics with the help of Local health workers on the ground. Most of these Health workers come from the remote rural areas of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. We also have volunteers and NGOs on the ground who are supporting us in this initiative. Our business development team is in close proximity to these villages and we do visit these locations for training and onboarding requirements. As the consultations happen through the Mobile App we are able to monitor each and every health worker on the ground for any support requirements.

For example, Ghanshyam Mishr, a health worker, has done multiple consultations with different specialists on behalf of their rural patients. Our system in the back-end captures every appointment including the information of the doctor, patient, and health worker in real-time while using the Mobile App.

In addition, we gather existing medical records, vitals, and
prescriptions in a single consultation so that if the same patient sees
another doctor, they have a comprehensive medical history.

Some of the key characteristics of our solution.

• Created a simple mobile app that can deliver quality care with the help of rural health workers
• A technology-enabled platform that can onboard a health worker in under 20 minutes.
• Health workers have their own interface.
• Provides high-quality care to those who are unable to move.
• Infrastructure requirements are minimal or non-existent.
• Finally, assist non-governmental organizations in lowering the cost of implementing health-care projects in rural communities.

Two of our key challenges are

1. Behavioral change of the rural communities in adopting Assisted Telemedicine
2. Cost per consultation

We believe this challenge will support collaborating with the Gates Foundation or any other foundations in conducting awareness programs for the rural communities so that we can increase the adoption of Assisted telemedicine. Also with the financial aid, we can reduce the cost per consultation for the end customer or rural patient.

We believe we have an innovative solution in the delivery of care in rural communities with the help of Local Health workers. We built a robust solution that can track each and every appointment for both individuals and organizations.

Addressing Mental wellness: SEARCH has a psychiatrist at its headquarters and over a dozen counselors spread throughout several districts. Because counselors are not fully licensed to administer medication, psychiatrists utilize our app to videoconference with counselors and patients to address issues and prescribe medication.
General OPD: SEARCH currently has only three doctors in the OPD clinic, and they want to use our app to connect walk-in patients with other senior doctors from the city.
Community Health: SEARCH just provided smartphones to all of its existing community health workers throughout villages. They will be available to connect their patients at the village level with the senior Doctor sitting at the Headquarters. Due to bandwidth limits in some tribal communities, we are only deploying in places with good connectivity.

Our goal is to make a network of 5000 health workers in India by the next year 2023 and build a network of 100,000 health workers spread across different corners of the country by 2027. We believe with our simplified solution model we can easily reach this target with the help of the Gates foundation.

We are recently quoted in the below article for contributing to No Poverty (SDG 1) & Promoting Good Health and Wellbeing (SDG 3)

https://blog.movingworlds.org/...

Even though change is very difficult, especially in Rural communities we have seen that they have quickly adopted technology based on the amount of assistance and guidance provided. This is exactly what we are doing through our solution where we are providing a better healthcare model by providing assistance to rural communities in the form of health workers. As telemedicine is considered the future of health care delivery it is very imperative to bring the rural communities into this fold. Some of the data as a piece of evidence is captured below where even the remotest villager is able to get the quality care they needed with the help of our App.

This captured information can help us continuously improve the service model on the ground based on the feedback from different stakeholders.

The core technology is our Mobile Application for Doctors, Healthworkers and Patients.

We're currently enhancing our Mobile App and Web App with an AI-powered,
the video-based, software-only solution that will enable anyone in need of
real-time health data to easily extract a wide range of health
indicators from mobile phones/laptops with the end-user agreement.

Caare Video Vitals

The health workers in Rural areas capture our primary health care data.

A Community Health worker, Asha Worker, Nurse, Caregiver, or any Private Practitioner, at the patient will simplify the procedure for the patient and doctor, allowing them to give a better treatment plan. Using our idea of Rural Assisted Telemedicine, the most crucial necessity of vital checks for the Doctor is addressed when the Health worker is with the patient at home or at their clinic. For every consultation on our platform, we record the details of all the participants involved in the consultation including the Health workers. A separate interface is also developed for Patients, Doctors, and Health workers in the process.

Our goal is to increase the proportion of female workers and advisers to 50% by the end of 2023 from the present 25%.

We are completely bootstrapped and currently, Movingworlds.org is supporting us with some of the grants. Also, we are generating revenue with a few Rural clinics and collaborations with NGOs. We are confident to raise the Monthly recurring revenue rate to a substantial amount with the addition of new clinics and providing our software as a solution to different organizations.