Medicare set

According to a 2019 report from WHO titled country disease outlook. It highlighted that communicable diseases account for 64% of the morbidities in Uganda with malaria, TB, HIV AIDS, lymphatic filariasis, soil transmitted helminthiasis, schistosomiasis, onchocerciasis and trachoma were among many the top infectious diseases in Uganda. It further highlights that physicians density per 1000 is 0.093. this report itself highlights less about the rate of understanding of primary health care providers that rural populations can easily access.  More so , there is statistical under reporting of new cases  of infectious diseases  which means we have much of the population that do self drug prescription and treatment to manage common infectious diseases  which could even worsen the prevalence of antimicrobial resistance. 

The report from international journal for equitable government health care facility access in Uganda (2021).  Published by international journal for equity health;  highlights that rural access to health care remains a challenge in subsaharan Africa due to urban bias, social determinants of health and transportation related barriers. It further highlights that health care inequities are associated with lack of policy, co-ordination, funding and guidelines. We believe the above mentioned findings could be tips of an underlying icebergs in the healthcare sector like under reporting of high burden disease and poor management of future epidemics due to lack of efficient primary health care interventions that coincides with low level of health seeking behaviours among Ugandans in rural areas who often prefer self treatment which in the long run could even worsen antimicrobial resistance.

In a publication titled report about infectious disease epidemiology (2023) by Susanne Straif-Bourgeois et al. Recommendation of development of surveillance systems that track disease are necessary to monitor secular trends and identify disease clusters and outbreaks to respond in timely manner. This highlights the need to develop an update statistical tool that could and offer guidance to policy makers on health matters and epidemic control 

Medicare set is basically a collection of hardware and software interfaces that Work hand in hand to aid in probable diagnosis of new infectious disease cases, statistically quantify the new case, offer a pathway for referrals and further coordination between primary health providers and higher cadres and more so  offer emergency treatment and first aid guidelines to primary health care providers that would give them skills to effectively manage emergency cases. The compartments of Medicare set are further highlighted in detail as shown below.

1. Statistical software interface. This allows primary health care providers to record new cases and provide an interface for keeping statistical entry for all the new cases they receive. Attached below is a sample statistical interface

The statistical interface will be connected to central servers that will always store that statistical data that can be accessed by policy makers and researchers.

2. Diagnosis approximation compartment. This is basically a collection of questionares, and direct input spots for given signs and symptoms that will be always answered by primary health care providers in relation to the patient they are managing. We hope this will help the less trained care providers to easily land on probable diagnosis of an infection before they can refer them to higher cadres health care providers for further management. This tool will use AI to easily make a quick spot diagnosis after analysing and making statistical approximation of a chance that one has a certain infection that will in the long run help reduce on the costs of patient management.

A sample simple diagnostic questionare

3. Express Mobile consultation and followup. This is basically a telephone line service that will automatically connect primary health care providers to other higher level health care providers to simplify medical consultation, referral and even ease co-ordination of patient management between different health care providers. We hope this will help reduce the burden of poor patient management, poor drug prescription and antimicrobial resistance in the long run. 

4. First aid and emergency treatment guidelines. This basically will contain guidelines on how to manage common medical emergencies  before referral to higher level health care centres for proper management. We hope this will help reduce on the burden of unwanted deaths.

In summary, Medicare is composed of software interface like diagnostic approximation compartment, express Mobile consultation, first aid and emergency compartment that Work hand in hand with hardware diagnostics devices like temperature gun among others to help primary health care providers easily diagnose a probable disease case, co-ordinate referral and further management, and even keep an updated statistical data about infectious disease. The unique feature of Medicare set is that it has a software interface that has offline mode capabilities which enables it to operate in offline mode. This makes it a better suit for rural areas with limited internet access. It can update stored data later on when it gets access to the internet 

Medicare sets innovation targets to help living in Ugandan rural areas and other developing countries at large to help primary health care providers serving the above mentioned populations, properly diagnose new disease cases, statistically quantify them and then offer follow up and feedback. We hope this will help to reduce on the problem of reduced health seeking behaviours in rural Areas, the burden of self medication and will also help reduce on the burden of unwanted deaths from the otherwise less dangerous diseases like malaria that have continuously affected and killed people in rural areas. And even reduce on the prevalence of antimicrobial resistance in rural areas 

We are a group of medical students who through the two years experience we gained during our clinical rotations have developed insights about creating Medicare set. All this hails from the experience we gained from patient exposure and interaction, it just helped us to gain a hint about what health problem is occurring in Ugandan rural areas. We believe this innovation idea will basically solve this problem if it's taken up by the government.

We hope to work with primary health care providers like village health teams who actually live in the rural setting of their patients and know the actual health problems of the patients than medical physicians who are even far distant from actual patient environment. We hope this will evolve more insights in clinical practice and will even simplify the process of disease diagnosis and management 

We have successfully completed development of our statistical, diagnostic, first aid treatment guidelines compartments of Medicare set which basically operate in online mode. Though we haven't fully developed our software interface that could allow Medicare to be fully functional and complete to be tested for public use

We are applying to gain technical guidance especially on how to d develop a standard software interface and financial support for initial running and mantainance 

Medicare set compartments are designed in  a such way to offer comprehensive application that eases disease diagnosis, follow and patient coordination, keep an updated statistical data that can be referred to easily.

Medicare set has a software interface that works in an offline mode that makes it more suitable to operate in rural areas that have limited access to internet. The inputted data can then later uploade on the larger system when there is internet access later on.

Medicare set will be connected and have coordinated operations with hardware medical devices like temperature gun, BP machine, pulse oximeter which will even simplify the diagnostic task for health care providers

We want to take use of AI to generate an interphase that will help in statistical analysis and even evaluate entry queries for given infectious disease signs and symptoms 

We envision Medicare set will help low cadre health care providers to easily identify and make probable diagnosis for new disease cases and even make most likely diagnoses and even refer for further management. We believe this will help reduce on the costs of patient care and disease management

We estimate that our innovation is implemented, we shall have statistical data about disease that policy makers can rely on in resource allocation in the future

More so, in the long run, we believe Medicare set will increase and improve on health seeking behaviours of people in rural areas since it simply the process of patient care, referral and coordination and we hope this reduce on the burden of self medication and antimicrobial resistance if it is fully implemented 

To attain an accurate and updated statistical data of new cases of infectious disease so that is accurate for public use.

To assist low cadre health care providers make probable diagnosis of infections, make desirable referral and even co-ordinate follow up and manage emergency cases 

To inprove the health seeking behaviours of people in rural areas, encourage medical consultation and reduce on the burden of antimicrobial resistance

Medicare set, is composed of hardware input devices that receive data that is in processed and analysed by a software interface .

We target to use artificial intelligence to make proportional approximation about statistical data, new disease cases and guide health care providers to provide good quality health care.

Software developers.  3

Technical analytics. 3

Mantainance staff. 3

Website developers. 3

Stastician.1

Medical consultant/ physician. 3

We have been working on Medicare set for 3 months now 

Medicare set development team first of seeks to work with professionals from different walks of life that is health professionals, staticians, epidemiologists, it experts, and we believe in the idea of living as a family with respect of work ethics.

Secondary offer open chances for all innovative people around to come join our cause irrespective of their , religious affiliation, sex or tribal background.

Further still we wish to attain a working environment that feels like a home and a source of joy, hope and achievement for our team