Submitted
2025 Global Health Challenge

MobiDx AI

Team Leader
Esther Muhia
MobiDx AI is a mobile laboratory unit powered by AI-driven diagnostic tools, designed to bring real-time, high-quality medical testing to underserved communities. It is a self-contained, tech-enhanced lab housed in vans, trucks, or modular units that travel directly to patients, eliminating the need for long-distance hospital visits. Equipped with AI-integrated diagnostic devices, MobiDx AI conducts on-the-spot blood tests, imaging scans,...
What is the name of your organization?
MobiDx AI
What is the name of your solution?
MobiDx AI
Provide a one-line summary or tagline for your solution.
MobiDx AI combines mobile laboratories with AI-driven diagnostic tools to provide on-site, real-time medical analysis for enhanced healthcare access.
In what city, town, or region is your solution team headquartered?
Nairobi Kenya
In what country is your solution team headquartered?
KEN
What type of organization is your solution team?
For-profit, including B-Corp or similar models
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What specific problem are you solving?
MobiDx AI is addressing the critical gap in healthcare access caused by the lack of diagnostic services in remote and underserved communities. Over half the world’s population lacks access to essential health services, and approximately 2 billion people face financial hardship due to healthcare costs (WHO). In low- and middle-income countries, the absence of diagnostic infrastructure leads to delayed or incorrect treatments, worsening health outcomes. In Africa, for instance, only 1% of global health expenditures support 24% of the global disease burden, and 47% of WHO member states*lack adequate diagnostic services at the primary care level. Rural populations often travel long distances for tests, resulting in late disease detection and higher mortality rates. MobiDx AI solves this by deploying AI-powered mobile laboratories to deliver rapid, on-site diagnostics, reducing reliance on distant hospitals. AI-driven analysis accelerates disease detection, ensuring early intervention for conditions like infectious diseases, diabetes, and maternal health risks. By combining portability, AI-driven accuracy, and real-time connectivity, MobiDx AI directly tackles diagnostic inaccessibility, bridging healthcare disparities globally.
What is your solution?
MobiDx AI is a mobile laboratory unit powered by AI-driven diagnostic tools, designed to bring real-time, high-quality medical testing to underserved communities. It is a self-contained, tech-enhanced lab housed in vans, trucks, or modular units that travel directly to patients, eliminating the need for long-distance hospital visits. Equipped with AI-integrated diagnostic devices, MobiDx AI conducts on-the-spot blood tests, imaging scans, and disease screenings for conditions like infections, diabetes, and maternal health risks. AI algorithms analyze results instantly, identifying abnormalities and predicting disease patterns with higher accuracy and speed than traditional methods. Data is securely transmitted via cloud-based platforms, allowing specialists in urban hospitals to remotely review results and provide treatment recommendations through telemedicine. The system also includes automated quality control and predictive maintenance, ensuring reliable performance in diverse environments. By combining AI precision, mobile accessibility, and digital health connectivity, MobiDx AI delivers faster diagnoses, reduces healthcare disparities, and empowers early interventions, making quality healthcare more accessible to millions in remote and resource-limited areas.
Who does your solution serve, and in what ways will the solution impact their lives?
MobiDx AI serves rural, low-income, and disaster-affected communities that lack access to essential diagnostic healthcare. These populations often face long travel distances, high medical costs, and limited healthcare infrastructure, leading to delayed disease detection and poor health outcomes. Women, children, elderly individuals, and people with chronic conditions like diabetes, tuberculosis, and maternal health risks are particularly vulnerable. By deploying AI-powered mobile labs, MobiDx AI brings affordable, on-site diagnostic services directly to these underserved groups. Patients receive real-time test results, enabling early detection and immediate treatment without the need for costly or inaccessible hospital visits. AI-driven diagnostics enhance accuracy, speed, and efficiency, reducing misdiagnoses and unnecessary delays. For rural and low-income populations, this means earlier treatment, lower healthcare costs, and improved survival rates. In crisis zones, MobiDx AI helps health agencies respond faster to outbreaks by providing real-time disease tracking and containment insights. By eliminating geographic and financial barriers to healthcare, MobiDx AI empowers communities with life-saving diagnostics, ensuring that millions receive timely, high-quality medical care, regardless of location or income.
Solution Team:
Esther  Muhia
Esther Muhia