Medinize
Problem: The inadequate accessibility to health services, health information and medical records. In most sub-Saharan countries, more than 20 percent of the population live more than two hours away from essential health services. making essential health services, especially for hard-to-reach populations, women, refugees, persons with disabilities, and lower-income households difficult to access. also, according to our survey over 47% percent of Nigerian adults between the ages of 18 to 40 reported having never been to the hospital in over a year due to time constraints, cost of treatment as well as cultural and religious beliefs. As a result of this, they resolve to self-medication and other unhealthy cultural practices that could be detrimental to their health in the long run.
In addition, most Nigerian health facilities rely heavily on crude data storage and collection practices, hence there is lack of digitized health medical records. This makes it difficult to monitor patients’ treatment during therapy, improve on medical innovation, research and collaboration with key health stakeholders.
Access to health service is also further limited by low ability to pay and relatively high cost of care, with over 50% of working adults in Nigeria still not having any valid health care plan.
Our solution is a digital technology/App that allows real-time collaboration between health stakeholders offering health information and data availability for health diagnoses as well as providing telecommunication patients and professionals for health treatment/therapy.
Our product allows our users to schedule appointments with medical professionals for non-emergency related cases, medical tests and receive real-time feedback from their healthcare professionals, access their medical records and gain access to our medical community, which consists of medical professionals as well as patients experiencing similar health challenges with the goal of sharing, learning & healing together.
Virtual consultation - Our application allows real-time collaboration between health stakeholders (doctors, pharmacists, nurses and medical laboratory professionals). Through our virtual consultations, patients can book appointments to see medical professionals for non-medical emergency cases, receive diagnoses, drug prescriptions and tests.
Medical records - Our solution allows real-time update of medical records from the diagnoses by professionals. patients can access personal records and diagnosis description. In addition, our platform provides an EMR (Electronic Medical Record) Database for health facilities enabling informed interventions, investments, and decision-making by local health systems.
Community - The community platform provides easy collaboration between health professionals, facilities as well as patients for medical tests, diagnosis & treatments. The community serves to provide easy and accurate medical information by professionals to patients improving awareness on good health practices. for example, a patient with a chronic diagnosis can join a specific community of people passing through similar challenges allowing them access to more information from specialists.
Local Communities: Medinize serves underserved people in local communities and healthcare providers. For underrepresented minorities in local communities, our solution improves accessibility and quality of health services. Through our platform, patients in local communities have access to different specialists that might not be available in their local communities. currently, in most sub-Saharan countries, more than 20 percent of the population lives more than two hours away from essential health services. making essential health services, especially for hard-to-reach populations difficult to access. In addition, our solution would help anyone have easy access to information.
Our community platform would also allow continuity of care for chronic diseases and mental health therapy providing personal health records that allows patients fully participate in the health process. Medinize community could also make it easier for patients to comply with treatment plans; in 2018, a study found that only about 45 percent of clinical guidelines for many common conditions were followed in several African countries.
Medical Professionals: For healthcare workers, our digital tool aims to strengthen health systems resilience by boosting their ability to identify, respond to, and recover from health emergencies also reducing the workload of healthcare professionals by ensuring that the ER is decongested through the alternative option of virtual consultations with patients. Also, improved access to patient data could help care providers make more accurate diagnoses and more effectively tailor interventions to prevent or treat disease.
Medinize serves to improve inclusive collaboration between health professionals. With our technology platform professionals can share methods, experience and research allowing patients to benefit effectively.
Our team is made up of a diverse group of individuals with expertise in various fields such as the health sector, technology space, law and policies among others. The diversity of knowledge and experience has been beneficial in our strategy sessions as well as our decision-making processes. This enables an all-inclusive approach in providing optimal health services.
As a team, we regularly receive feedback from doctors, and other medical professionals together with users/patients on critical contributions at different stages of product lifecycle.
- Improve accessibility and quality of health services for underserved groups in fragile contexts around the world (such as refugees and other displaced people, women and children, older adults, LGBTQ+ individuals, etc.)
- Nigeria
- Prototype: A venture or organization building and testing its product, service, or business model, but which is not yet serving anyone
We are currently developing our product having already completed our designs and about testing to receive feedbacks from users as well as medical practitioners. with our list of available we would be carrying out beta test.
Our Solution is being developed for testing and is not serving anyone presently.
The health sector in Nigeria and Africa has been grossly underdeveloped for so long and with so much multi-infrastructural deficit across the country, leveraging technology would be the best way towards leapfrogging decades of under-investments opening up the bridge for underserved community to gain access and participate optimally in the process.
Medinize is privileged to be given the opportunity to provide solutions that meets these infrastructural deficits, and in many ways solvers teams with partners can provide our Team with resources, networking and marketing opportunities and funding to make our solution reach underserved communities easier and quicker.
- Product / Service Distribution (e.g. delivery, logistics, expanding client base)
- Public Relations (e.g. branding/marketing strategy, social and global media)
- Technology (e.g. software or hardware, web development/design)
Our solution is a one stop platform that provides health service solutions while connecting patients to professionals in underserved communities providing Teleconsultations, medical tests from facilities and pharmaceutical services from most health facilities in the country with ease and convenience. This is significant because it allows patients and communities to participate together in the process of health treatment from awareness to service delivery. i.e., our community platform aims to redefine the process of healing and therapy.
Amplifying reach of our digital technology across the country and Africa could result in a 15% efficiency gain by 2030, with savings reinvested we can improve health access and outcomes.
- 3. Good Health and Well-being
- 4. Quality Education
- 9. Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
Web/Mobile Application
- A new business model or process that relies on technology to be successful
- Software and Mobile Applications
- Nigeria
- Kenya
- Nigeria
- South Africa
- For-profit, including B-Corp or similar models
These are the ways we incorporate DEI practice in our business.
- We start with Leadership.
- We built in communication and recognition.
- Diversified Hiring Practice
- Encourage a culture that valued differences.
- Getting employee Feedback
- We encourage collaboration.
The customers we serve are health Facilities, the government, patients & professionals. We are adopting a B2B2C Business model – Our ecosystem offers values that is been defined by the needs of the different patient populations and their associated effective care journey including beyond care itself; Our consumer-oriented nature works such that, it increases the number of healthcare touchpoints and outcomes. Where we:
- Support payment and financing.
- Leverage community care support services.
- Integrate home, near home, and virtual care services.
- Track daily life activities; and
- Connect users with traditional modalities of care.
- Individual consumers or stakeholders (B2C)
- Fee-for-service for online consultation, tests and other medical services
- Fee from value-added packages and membership plans
- Sale of customized consumer healthcare service packages to individuals as well as corporate clients
- Sales of products under the direct sales model
- Commissions from the marketplace model
- Advertising revenue
