Past Finalists

CWDHA 2020

eCounselling

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eCounselling is a mobile application comprising of a series of animated videos that educates the masses about key aspects related to Tuberculosis (TB) management, prevention and cure.  TB treatment lasts for as long as 6 months. eCounselling attempts to fill the gap in providing correct information about the disease to patients and their families . It comprises of a total of 12 animated videos that are voice free with minimal text. 9  videos are shown to the patient before treatment enrolment. These 9 videos cover important topics like treatment duration, how to take medicines, importance of nutrition, preventive measures to be taken by family, how the TB spreads, etc. After each video, the Counsellor interacts with the patient to confirm the message received and resolve queries. Given the animated nature of the videos, the patient and any other family member remains fully engaged during the counselling session.

Monerdaktar

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More than 92% of people in Bangladesh are deprived from any sort of mental health care due to severe scarcity and inappropriate distribution of mental health professionals, widespread stigma and geographical barriers. To solve this long-standing problem in Bangladesh and other LMICs we launched “MonerDaktar”- an online mental health platform (website and mobile application) that gives people the opportunity to connect with their preferred psychiatrist and psychologist at their convenient time from any part of the country. Monerdaktar also provides tools for self-assessment, audiovisual resources and integration of referral systems. Currently, 112 professionals are serving people everyday using this platform.

NextGenCoviAI

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We have developed an adaptive Integrated Hospital Management platform (AIHMP), a series of next generation hospital management systems with potential of handling infectious disease outbreaks, monitor health systems, and monitoring of patients (TB, infectious diseases, cancer, etc. The system has been improved and now dubbed NextGenCoviAI, an integrated digital National COVID-19 Health Information Management Platform. This can be used by the:
1. Ministry of Health to: (i) register all the screening units (health centers) and provide a platform for online collaboration, (ii) view patients at each health center, (iii) manage human resource, (iv) manage resource allocation and demand forecasting based on statics, and (v) provide instant communication to public:
2. Health centers (i) patient’s information management, (ii) Inter/intra communication, (iv) telemedicine, and (iv) request resources from Ministry of Health.
3. The community to: (i) Obtain communication from ministry of health, (ii) 2-way communication to the ministry or nearest health center.

National Services Library

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Our solution significantly reduces the fragmentation, cost and effort of data silos. This enables better care coordination through a Library of Health Services acting as a single source of truth for health practitioners, patients and other stakeholders. Multiple key data sets can be overlaid to provide dynamic, real-time health information on a national scale, for example covid-19 or population health data. Other digital initiatives can be linked into the Health Library, such as mobile apps, Telehealth, Secure Messaging, and Geospatial mapping to provide integrated connectivity for health care.

TB EHR

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Tuberculosis remains a major public health problem in Malawi. The TB EHR was built based on protocols which ensure that patients are treated according to the TB guidelines, as there are no shortcuts when using the system. The system has drastically reduced the amount of time taken to compile reports which are used by the Malawi Ministry of Health for decision making compared to the manual way of compiling the reports. The system provides a continuum of care in that it is easy to retrieve patient history information for decision making by the clinician/doctor. The system has tools that make it easy to identify patients who need to be followed up according to the TB protocol. Collection of presumptive cases helps to ensure that hotspots are identified which in turn prevents the spread of TB. The system is also integrated with an environmentally friendly hybrid solar backup system.

MomCare

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In many African countries, navigating the health system during pregnancy brings unique worries. Services may be unavailable/inadequate and prenatal care may involve unexpected, unpayable costs. Every year, roughly 300,000 women die from preventable pregnancy complications(1), with almost 70% in sub-Saharan Africa; region with the highest maternal mortality ratio(2). Yet, with adherence to clinical guidelines and well-documented interventions (timely antenatal appointments, skilled delivery, etc.), these statistics can remarkably improve.
PharmAccess(3) therefore developed MomCare, a digitally-enabled mother journey. Using a trusted platform, mother and healthcare provider agree to a path of maternal care at a predetermined cost and quality. By monitoring provided care through digital tools, MomCare creates a transparent and accountable mother journey at pre-agreed costs, generating actionable data to drive outcome improvements, and importantly, empowering women to be in charge of their care journey.
MomCare ensures that mothers are covered and connected, giving their babies a better start to life.

World Medical Education

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"Millions of children and adults worldwide suffer or die prematurely from their illnesses. A major contributing factor is the shortage of well-trained health workers. Even if we train large numbers of new health workers, we still have a major problem, in that huge numbers of existing health workers receive little if any meaningful continuing education, that is essential to maintain clinical skills.
Our aim is to ensure that all health workers, especially those working in the remotest areas of the poorest countries, have immediate access to state-of-the-art, video intense, context specific multimedia education across the full spectrum of diseases they see. Our bespoke programming platform delivers state of the art video-based education for all levels of health worker. Our App/mobile phone/database system provides access to educational materials in the remotest areas and, uniquely, video based continuing education without Internet access aligned to simultaneous assessment of health worker clinical skills and management decisions.
""Millions of children and adults worldwide suffer or die prematurely from their illnesses. A major contributing factor is the shortage of well-trained health workers. Even if we train large numbers of new health workers, we still have a major problem, in that huge numbers of existing health workers receive little if any meaningful continuing education, that is essential to maintain clinical skills.
Our aim is to ensure that all health workers, especially those working in the remotest areas of the poorest countries, have immediate access to state-of-the-art, video intense, context specific multimedia education across the full spectrum of diseases they see. Our bespoke programming platform delivers state of the art video-based education for all levels of health worker. Our App/mobile phone/database system provides access to educational materials in the remotest areas and, uniquely, video based continuing education without Internet access aligned to simultaneous assessment of health worker clinical skills and management decisions.
""Millions of children and adults worldwide suffer or die prematurely from their illnesses. A major contributing factor is the shortage of well-trained health workers. Even if we train large numbers of new health workers, we still have a major problem, in that huge numbers of existing health workers receive little if any meaningful continuing education, that is essential to maintain clinical skills.
Our aim is to ensure that all health workers, especially those working in the remotest areas of the poorest countries, have immediate access to state-of-the-art, video intense, context specific multimedia education across the full spectrum of diseases they see. Our bespoke programming platform delivers state of the art video-based education for all levels of health worker. Our App/mobile phone/database system provides access to educational materials in the remotest areas and, uniquely, video based continuing education without Internet access aligned to simultaneous assessment of health worker clinical skills and management decisions.

T4MCH

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The T4MCH is an innovative project which uses ICT tools to increase pregnant women, new mothers and their partners access to maternal and child health information (M&CH) to promote safe delivery and survival of new borns. It delivers mobile voice messages in local languages and SMS in English for free to beneficiaries at a distance. The use of local of languages increases beneficiaries understanding of M&CH information. To promote e-learning, health staff are trained to use ICT tools to package, design and deliver M&CH information to women and their families using audio visual content at the community level and at health facilities in Knowledge Sharing Sessions. In addition, the projects’ gender mainstreaming activities such as the Father to Father Groups and the Mother’s Story influences men’s socio-cultural beliefs to participate in issues of M&CH and they empower young adolescent pregnant girls in decision making about their reproductive health.

CwPAMS App

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To prevent 10 million deaths per year globally, it is critical to act now to improve the appropriate use of antimicrobials; one of the recognised and evidenced based measures to reduce drug resistant infections [1]. The Commonwealth Partnerships for Antimicrobial Stewardship (CwPAMS)* app is an antimicrobial prescribing app to improve antimicrobial prescribing and stewardship practices among health professionals in Ghana, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. The app provides for the first-time in the four countries easy access to infection management resources to improve appropriate use of antimicrobials in line with national and international guidelines. The resources included: WHO essential medicines list, surveillance tools, antimicrobial stewardship training, Infection Prevention and Control resources, and the Standard Treatment Guidelines for each country [2].

* CwPAMS, a pharmacy-led collaboration between CPA & THET and funded by UK Fleming Fund uses a health partnerships approach to share skills between healthcare professionals in the UK and the four Cw countries to reduce the impact of antimicrobial resistance
[1] - https://amr-review.org/
[2] - https://twitter.com/CW_Pharmacists/status/1197219363738267649?s=20

Predictive Analytics

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Despite the availability of free routine immunizations in most developing countries, about 30% of children who receive their first vaccine fail to complete the full course of immunizations. In resource-constrained settings, without the technology to model, visualize, and predict risk patterns, overburdened vaccinators are unable to identify target children at the highest risk of dropping out or delaying vaccines, leading to persistently high default rates. We have designed an innovative Predictive Analytics (PA) algorithm that leverages artificial intelligence and uses mathematical and computational statistical modeling, machine learning, and multidimensional data mining to accurately identify children at high risk of defaulting using socio-demographic predictors including child’s gender, age group, language, and enrollment vaccine and timeliness. By leveraging the power of big data and utilizing PA, we can facilitate vaccinators to correctly identify potential defaulters, deploy evidence-based targeted interventions and improve service delivery.

Together for Her

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Ohum Healthcare Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

A cloud-based integrated Enterprise Hospital Management System for enterprise hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, public health facilities, and community health. The comprehensive solution includes all of the following:
- Computerised Patient Order Entry (CPOE)
- Electronic Medical Records
- Clinical documentation and Controlled Clinical Workflows
- Integrated Labs, pharmacy, inventory and asset management
- Interfacing with equipments including PACS
- Automated Patient administration for appointments, admissions, billing, etc
- HR and Financial Solution
- Mobility Solution for clinicians 
- Patient Portal
- Complete Clinical and Business Analytics Solution

Key Highlights:
- 1 Patient, 1 Medical Record For Life 
- Zero typing
- HIMSS Stage 6 ready
- 168 modules, 43 Core Processes, 42 Specialties
- End-to-end automation, integrations, transformation
- Enables clinicians to View, Order, and Document Care in one easy flow from a single screen
- User-friendly and intuitive screens

A new version of the product is now available. Other Awards won:
1. “Leading in IT Solution for Public Health” Award: June 2019: 4th Healthcare Innovation Summit and Awards 2019, Mumbai
2. "Best Healthcare IT Company for Clinical Transformation" Award: Mar 2018: 8th MT India Healthcare Awards 2018, Mumbai
3. "Best Clinical Transformation Solution Provider Of the Year" Award: Feb 2018: 2nd Edition - World Health & Wellness Congress & Awards, Mumbai

Other Recognition Received:
1. Udai Kumar as COVER STORY among “The 10 Transformational Leaders in Healthcare”: Aug 2019: Beyond Exclamation Magazine Special Health care Edition, Las Vegas, USA
2. Best of 10 Healthcare Brands”: Feb 2019: Insights Care Magazine
3. COVER STORY on "10 Most Promising Healthcare Technology Startups": December 2017: CIO Review Magazine
4. Udai Kumar recognized as one of "The 10 Most Admired Leaders in Healthcare": November 2017: Insights Success Magazine
5. Udai Kumar named among "Top 50 Successful Indian Entrepreneurs in the US": September 2017: The Technology Headlines Magazine, Texas, USA

HERA

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Forced migration is increasing around the world due to humanitarian conflicts and climate crisis. The number of people displaced is anticipated to increase to 200 million by 2050, from an already high number of 60 million. Forcible displacement of refugees is associated with increased health risks among moving populations, as lack of reliable health records, language barriers, and limited knowledge about different healthcare services increase vulnerability to diseases.

HERA is a mobile health (mHealth) open-source platform created to improve health outcomes for refugee populations by increasing uptake of preventive health services, specifically antenatal visits and childhood immunizations. It is uniquely designed to meet demand-side barriers that refugees encounter in host country healthcare access, and decrease disproportionately poor outcomes related to vaccine preventable diseases and maternal health. The HERA App provides healthcare navigation, health education, and behavioral nudges such as automated reminders to increase timely immunization or pregnancy related doctor visits.

DSS-API

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Stringent rules and guidelines specifying the number, timing, and spacing of doses of each vaccine based on the child’s age and the doses already received, coupled with poor FHW training results in incomplete and inaccurate manually constructed schedules. The problem is exacerbated by the introduction of new vaccines which adds further complexity and increases chances of erroneous vaccine administration and missed opportunities for immunization (MOIs).  We have designed an electronic Decision Support System Application Programming Interface (DSS-API) to enable vaccinators to administer the right vaccines at the right time and reduce MOIs. DSS-API leverages embedded logic and process algorithms to automatically construct WHO recommended routine and catch-up vaccine schedule for a child. The algorithm takes into account all the associated parameters such as the number, timings and spacing of each vaccine dose to construct individual vaccine schedules depending on child’s vaccination history and date of birth and facilitates FHWs in accurate administration of vaccine doses according to the recommended schedule.

KaziHealth Mobile App

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The main aim of this project is to determine the effectiveness and sustainability of multi-faceted  health promotion programs with the view to evaluate and contribute evidence for promoting long-lasting positive changes amongst teachers working in selected primary schools in disadvantaged settings in a developing country. KaziHealth is designed as a series of consecutive steps that include an individual risk assessment followed by the development of an individualized health risk profile, two face-to-face lifestyle coaching sessions to set specific goals and aid in the implementation, monitoring progress and motivation through the KaziHealth mobile phone application and, finally, evaluation of goal achievement. Additionally, the teachers will have the opportunity to participate in an online course on self-assessment of personal health to educate themselves on health and wellness education in schools in South Africa.

EIMS of NSACP

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The National STD/AIDS Control Programme (NSACP), Ministry of Health, is responsible for control and prevention of STDs HIV in Sri Lanka.
To overcome the many problems of using manual records for clinical data, the Electronic Information Management System (EIMS) was introduced gradually starting in 2018, to the NSACP by the Strategic information Unit (SIM Unit) of NSACP. The central database is stored on the SLT Cloud and accessed country-wide through the Web. To overcome internet interruptions, a local server has been established which sync with the cloud server.
Available modules: Registration/queue management, Consultation (patient interview, investigations and prescribing). Bleeding/Injection room (collection of samples and outpatient procedures), Counseling, defaulter and contact tracing, Pharmacy (issuing drugs and stock-management) and Laboratory (handling samples, recording findings and reporting), Epidemiology (processing epidemiological data) and Reporting (generating table for analyzing data and displaying it on large-screen dashboards).
This paper-less EIMS has revolutionalized patient management, care and the data management of NSACP which is now more efficient and effective. It is clearly the future of clinical and programmatic STD/HIV related data management in Sri Lanka.

Medworks

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"Medworks has developed mobile and web applications for diabetic patients, which empowers them by providing them with better control over their health data. In doing so, Medworks facilitates better decision-making and lifestyle choices to ensure adherence to treatment among our target beneficiaries, primarily located in Pakistan where every 4th person over the age of twenty is diabetic.
At the core of our product offering is Glu-Sage, a compact glucose meter that plugs into a phone’s audio jack. It allows the recording and storing of blood glucose levels directly on the smartphone. This links people with diabetes with clinicians, who can then monitor metrics such as blood pressure, weight, physical exercise and food consumption to intervene remotely when required. Real time data sharing allows HCPs to make informed decisions on treatment modifications to prevent heart, kidney, limb and eye diseases. "

IHAP

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This information system was designed to support the operations of the proposed Inbound Health Assessment Unit, which is positioned under the Immigrant Health Unit of the Ministry of health, Sri Lanka. This system was developed to securely link the designated panel physician employed by the IOM, the Ministry of Health and the Department of Immigration (DIE) and National Programme for Tuberculosis Control and Chest Diseases (NPTCCD), National STD and HIV Control Programme (NSACP), Anti-Malaria Campaign (AMC) and Anti-Filariasis Campaign (AFC) for the Ministry of Health while ensuring secure and efficient data management, maintain the confidentiality of applicants’ data and to minimize possible introduction of fraud.

This system enables the secure and robust active surveillance process which is integrated with the passport and bio-metric data verification. Also streamline the first line investigations with the routine management of HIV, TB, Malaria and Filaria cases. Through this system Periodic follow-up of the applicant by integrating business processes of Department of Immigration (DIE), IHA unit, IHAU and four vertical health programmes of the Ministry of Health, namely National Programme for Tuberculosis Control and Chest Diseases (NPTCCD), National STD and HIV Control Programme (NSACP), Anti-Malaria Campaign (AMC) and Anti-Filariasis Campaign (AFC).

At the moment IOM offering an applicant focus service encouraging early completion of the IHA and proper follow-up throughout the stay in Sri Lanka. Applicant can now online reserve their appointment for the IHA through this online application according to the allocated time slots.

HeadScape Focus

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HeadScape Focus is leading the way in personal health records, enabling young people and families to access their health information, communicate with clinicians and teachers, and manage their health and wellbeing. It has transformed the clinical service from an episodic appointment based model to one of on-demand support via the platform’s instant messaging function. Trusted resources and self-help tools enable young people and families to build confidence and skills in self-management. HeadScape Focus is developing to bring clinical record data and personal data into one place - saving time, increasing efficiency and supporting shared decision making between young people, clinicians and teachers. Through the platform, schools are able to communicate with clinicians and align their approach to that of the clinical team and access specialist advice and support. HeadScape Focus is co-produced and beautifully designed, open source, safe and secure.

DataToCare

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As discussed in the WHO digital health Target Product Profiles (TPPs), collecting test results electronically in real time reduces the time for the patient to the care access, increases the accuracy of the collected information and improves the health care management at all levels.
The DataToCare software meets many requirements from some of the TPPs. It connects diagnostics assays, notifies in real time the patients and physicians about the results availability and provides the stakeholders with visual patient medical record information as well as cohort information for a given region or country.
Our project has been triggered by a request from the ERS which was aligned on the TPPs framework provided by the WHO. We have been requested to enhance our DataToCare software by developing an additional tuberculosis (TB) test results capture in addition to the already existing automated one for the Xpert MTB/RIF.
To reach the objective, we have developed a front end to collect manually Drug Sensitivity Test (DST) results capture that manually collect MGIT and proportion (LJ) test results. Due to the demand from the field, we also developed, for free, in parallel to this project, a manual capture of culture test results (also for the MGIT and the proportion (LJ) tests) and a patient medical record.

A pilot run was planned to test the software new features in DRC. Due to political instability and to ensure the project completion in due time, the trials and testing have been transferred to the National Reference Laboratory of Kigali, Rwanda, at the end of October 2016.

JANITRI

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KEYAR is an affordable, easy to use and wearable intra-partum FHR & contraction monitoring device for low resource healthcare settings. The reusable patch sticks onto the mother's belly to read up contractions and FHR. The device monitors both the parameters, analyzes the pattern and further gives color coded/sound alert if fetus is in distress. The device also displays fetal heart rate and uterine contraction in an easy format which is interpretable by a low skilled health worker. KEYAR communicates with our mobile application DAKSH (24,000 INR) which is an intrapartum monitoring mobile application for automated partograph generation. DAKSH allows the staff nurse to register and enter vital signs of a pregnant woman. It reminds the staff nurse to monitor the labor vitals, as per the standard WHO intrapartum protocol. It also generates alerts in case of complications, based on an in-built algorithm. 

Pubudu

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"Pubudu” was developed for screening and intervention of dyslexia, dysgraphia and dyscalculia supporting local languages. Target audience of application are school children between age 6 to 8. The screening of dyslexia, letter dysgraphia, numeric dysgraphia and dyscalculia was carried out using machine learning techniques. Intervention techniques are implemented using gamified environments. Ultimate goal of our application is to enhance reading, writing and mathematical skills of differently abled children.

EPI cStock

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Despite relative success of the Malawi immunization program, Save the Children in collaboration with the Expanded Programme of Immunisation (EPI) Unit and Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses (IMCI) Unit of the Ministry of Health, identified low visibility of EPI logistics data and a lack of consistent procedures for reporting and resupplying EPI products. This situation often leads to interrupted vaccination services in some parts of the country and eventually leads to poor performances of the EPI system. Responding to challenges, Ministry of Health with support from Save the Children, piloted EPI cStock intervention addressed these challenges in Neno and Thyolo (Southern Malawi)
cStock is an SMS-based, open-source, web-accessible logistics management information system for all health center level EPI products The system automatically calculates the resupply needs and consumption and that has contributed towards improved visibility and availability of EPI products at different level hence strengthening supply chain management system.
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CHT

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The Community Health Toolkit (CHT) is a global public good and shared toolkit to support the development of digital health initiatives in the hardest-to-reach areas of the world and advance universal health coverage. It is a collection of ready-to-scale free and open-source technologies; open-access design, technical, and implementer resources; and a community of practice. The CHT supports health organizations in building full-featured and scalable digital health apps quickly and is intended for community health systems designed to improve the coverage, quality, speed, and equity of care. CHT apps support many languages; run offline; and work with phones, tablets, and computers.

Keheala

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Over 22 million people in the developing world die each year from diseases whicha re curable or we have effective treatments. Keheala is a digital health platform that delivers behavioral interventions across basic feature phones and smartphones in order to improve healthcare access and treatment outcomes for patients. Using basic feature phones to reach patients, Keheala addresses the non-medical drivers of disease - stigma, a lack of information, motivation and support - with demonstrated behavioral strategies from the social sciences (behavioral economics and psychology).

doctHERs

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Over 300,000 licensed female healthcare providers (HCPs) are excluded from the global health workforce at any given time due to: (i) childcare/parental care responsibilities, (ii) sociocultural barriers that exclude women from the workforce and (iii) rigid health systems which have not adapted to an agile, digital era.  doctHERs reintegrates these women by using a digital health platform & exponential technologies such as AI to match the under-utilised capacity of  remotely-located female doctors (who work from home) to the unmet needs of health seekers.  

askNivi

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"askNivi is an AI-driven conversational platform that provides on-demand, trusted, and actionable health information so that every individual can make more informed and supported decisions on health. In Kenya, it is available for free in English and Swahili 24/7 through Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and SMS; In India, it is available for free in English and Hindi. Nivi makes it simple for men, women, and youth to explore sexual and reproductive health topics, gaining personalized guidance and actionable recommendations. Using targeted nudges, reminders, and referrals, Nivi empowers consumers to act.

Nivi serves as a companion to consumers along their health journey, whether that is visiting a local provider or taking action for personal wellbeing. Nivi offers its scalable tool to organizational partners seeking to optimize their target audience engagement, education, and referrals, which generates rich insights into consumers’ health journey, market-wide trends and actionable patterns for public health."

BE SMART

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Be Smart is a mobile application created mainly for adolescents and young people. It a user friendly app which comes in all three languages of Sri Lanka, which are Sinhala, Tamil and English. This addresses common health issues faced by the young people in simple terms that can be understood by them. Non Communicable Diseases, HIV/AIDS/STD's , Mental Health Issues and Sexual Abuse through cyber exploitation are the main areas focused. Each area is separately addressed and preventive measures are given. Also it gives Sri Lanka government medical helplines where if the youth has any further issues to contact. 

TuneMe

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The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) East and Southern Africa Regional Office, in collaboration with the Ford Foundation and Praekelt Foundation created a platform where youth can access age-appropriate and accurate SRHR information. TuneMe.org, developed as a part of the Safeguard Young People Programme  (SYP), is a web-based platform that can be accessed through java-enabled devices and simple mobile phones. It takes advantage of the high rate of access to mobile phones and increasing Internet penetration across East and Southern Africa. The aim was to promote sexual and reproductive health outcomes for at least three million young people aged 10 to 24 years within the first four years and across seven of the SYP implementing countries (Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe). 

Rocket Health

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Rocket Health leverages on digital technology to delivery a value based, quality end-to-end services to its target beneficiaries through provision of tele-consultations via mobile SMS and voice call-in. In addition, providing low cost health insurance packages affordable to low tier communities that would not afford private or employer based premium coverages. In addition, Rocket Health improves access to health information by diversifying from the traditional TV and Radio and using mobile SMS and social chat spaces to target specific demographic with health information for behavioral change. Through this innovative model of health care delivery, demographics that would have trekked long distance to access healthcare or had to wait for long hour at a health facility worse still not get follow up after hospital their visit get these barriers addressed through Rocket Health.

PapsAI

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The digital health platform that has 4 core functions:
(i) A low cost digital microscope slide scanner to produce quick, reliable and high-resolution digital pap-smear images. The microscope is fully automated and produces high quality images comparable to those obtained using commercial microscopes. This has been 3D printed and costs less than 500 USD as opposed to the commercial microscopes that cost over 1,500 USD.
(ii) Cervical cancer risk factors evaluation engine to automatically assess the likelihood of contacting cervical cancer given the risk factors.
(iii) An automated pap-smear analysis tool for diagnosis and classification of cervical cancer from pap-smear images, and
(iv) An AI empowered digital health cervical cancer patient’s record management platform. This is to specifically store patient’s pap-smear images and text information for subsequent comparison and prediction, patient schedule reminder, telemedicine support with collaboration among cytopathologists all over the country via the connected integrated platform and providing an anonymous dataset to universities for research.

Bundle of Rays

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Bundle of Rays is an Australian start-up built by an Australian nurse. We have to 2 strings to our bow. Firstly, we enable end to end virtual and augmented reality consultation, distribution and implementation to help support industry leaders understand and adopt immersive technologies. Secondly, we deliver nursing education through face to face and online delivery. Always pushing the limits with what is possible with a skilled team, progressive ideology and strong world leading partners.

Deconstructing barriers to access innovation, global collaboration and remote working, are pillars of the vision we hold. Education within healthcare has changed and we are now immersed in a new reality.

Bundle of Rays can show you how and we can do it for all.

HIVE Learning Platform

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HIVE is a web-based assistive learning platform for children with Down Syndrome. HIVE provides an excellent opportunity for improving their learning skills including math, language, everyday skills, social skills, and has been able to improve motor skills using the hardware component with the system. Also, face recognition can keep the user's attention with the system, thereby suggesting and referring their most interesting contents according to the user's emotion. Finally, the Hive can visualize cognitive skill development by analyzing the data. 50 children have tested and shown successful results which means "Hive" with all these features is very productive.

sTrack, giving every school a digital presence.

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sTrack makes timely information about schools available to all citizens in an efficient and cost effective manner. The ministry of Education and Sports uploads all registered schools’ information on a web based system and citizens can access them any time and get all the details about a particular school (registration status, performance, resources, communication). It ensures online accessibility of all schools and opportunities for community participation in a friendly, transparent and efficient manner. It provides citizens the means to report and comment on anything which affects them about these schools in their physical environment and how schools’ projects are implemented in their areas. District Education Officers use this tool to efficiently monitor, track and plan for all the schools in their districts with a direct communication channel with the ministry of Education. The platform empowers each school to activate its digital ID, and enable it to engage the public. Our COVID-19 response enables each school to upload reading materials for their students.

Magicbit

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The tech enthusiasm of students is directed towards entertainment and leisure use. What if, we can direct this towards innovation and creativity with technology? Magicbit is an innovation platform which aims to simplify the learning process of smart technologies. This will create better mental health while fostering the innovations in important sectors in community like health. Magicbit is an integrated development platform for learning and practicing smart technologies like electronics, robotics, IoT and coding. To say more simply, it's a small computer which brings a whole lot of built in features with ease of learn and affordability to students.

FOODGOODBOX APP

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The FoodGoodBox app enables the user to not only reduce calories but also to eat Food in the healthy recommended proportions by current guidelines including Dietary Guidelines for Americans and helps tackle obesity. It follows the MyPlate concept where the recommendation is to eat one’s meal with half the plate with vegetables/ fruit, quarter with meat/ protein and quarter with carbohydrate rich food. It was initially built as an adjuvant to the Portion and Calorie Control Lunchbox which is an innovative product with the patent pending for it. (See link for patent) This food container too is designed in such a way that the proportions can be maintained while the food consumed per meal can be measured in cup volumes (240ml). Cup volumes are standard serving sizes and nutrients in different food for that volume is given in data bases, making it easy to calculate the nutrient intakes.

Mintoak

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"Pharmacies are the last mile connectivity to delivery of drugs and medical supplies as well as their sheer presence in neighbourhood provides significant comfort to people. Setting up and Operations of pharmacies require significant capital investment including in funding stocking of inventory. While Pharmacies want to embrace digital payments that can help enhance access to funding, they face multiple problems in doing so including onerous processes, lack of transparency and complexity of disparate solutions.
Mintoak provides robust omni-channel payments platform to accept both card-based and remote payments such as QR, UPI and link-based payments which help pharmacies to offer contactless service as consumer preference evolve post-COVID. The platform at the same time provides an option to record cash and pay-later transactions thereby facilitating higher business and cashflow visibility which help improve higher lending including supply chain financing on the back of these digitized transactions (including digitized cash recording)."

Emergency Alert System

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Castle Street Hospital for Women (CSHW) is the premier maternity hospital in Sri Lanka with nearly 12000 Caesarean sections (CS) per year. The CS rate of the hospital in 2019 was 33.8%. Out of that 6% belongs to Category 1 CS (needs immediate delivery). The decision to delivery interval (DDI) for category 1 CS as recommended by NICE Guidelines is 30 minutes. However, this was 38 minutes(Mean DDI) in CSHW. It was recognized that bad neonatal outcomes for category I CS are strongly associated with prolonged DDI and delay in attending paediatrics house officers, both due to the existing traditional communication system over the phone. So the key areas of delay are recognized as the ward, labor room, operation theatre, blood bank and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit(NICU). An electronic emergency alert system was proposed to reduce message circulating time and to deliver real time reliable information.

HemoSmart

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The Hemoglobin concentration in human blood is an important substance to health condition determination. With the results which are obtained from Hemoglobin test, a condition which is called as Anemia (a low level of Hemoglobin) can be revealed. Traditionally the Hemoglobin test is done using blood samples which are taken using needles. The non-invasive Hemoglobin measurement system, introduced this implementation and ability to check the hemoglobin concentration in the human blood. The images of the finger tip of the different hemoglobin level patients which is taken using a camera is used to develop the neural network based algorithm. The pre mentioned algorithm is used in the developed non-invasive device to display the Hemoglobin level. Before doing the above procedure, an account is created in the mobile app and a questionnaire is given to answer by the patient. Finally both the results which are obtained from the mobile app and the device are run through a machine learning algorithm to get the final output. According to the final result patient would be able to detect anemia at an early stage.

E-Heza

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E-Heza is the first point-of-care digital solution in Rwanda to serve the entire scope of community-based health services. E-Heza is designed alongside frontline healthcare workers to ease their workloads, improve their interactions with patients, and provide real-time data trends that facilitate individualized health education while also ensuring the accurate and timely delivery of data to the national government. Initially developed to serve maternal child healthcare needs, Eheza will serve as the gold standard point-of-care digital platform for all primary health care delivery because it promotes data integrity, eases healthcare provider workloads, utilizes real time data to facilitate personalized health education, and delivers timely and reliable data to national database.

MomConnect

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Despite having one of the best economies on the continent, South Africa still sees disproportionately high maternal and infant mortality. In 2014 the South African National Department of Health launched MomConnect, its flagship maternal health programme for which Praekelt.org is a key design and technology partner. Through MomConnect, pregnant women and new mothers can receive free messaging on maternal health via SMS or WhatsApp. The platform also provides access to a text-based helpdesk for queries. Since 2014, 3 million users have registered in over 95% of public health facilities and the platform services 1 million active users monthly.

Better Platform

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The project solves mainly the interoperability issues on a country level in Malta. The government has decided to build a central data repository for all Malta citizens, where they use a vendor neutral format (openEHR) for storing the data, and all of the vendors/systems have to share the data through that platform. This way the data will always "outlive" the application, being accessible to hospitals and patients anytime, anyplace. It is also first public cloud implementation of such approach.

eTreat Acne

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Acne affects 85% of individuals between the ages of 12-25 years of age, and over 90% of the population at some point in their life. More than 95% of them report feeling depressed because of their acne; over 60% feel overlooked by their healthcare system. A young, tech-driven population, desperately searching for solutions online are susceptible to inaccurate, and oftentimes harmful, suggestions that have no correlation to their own health.

eTreat Acne is a mobile application that uses machine learning and AI to automatically identify facial regions with inflammatory acne and skin blemishes, such as hyperpigmentation, scarring, melasma and many others in seconds, using only the smartphone camera. It then crafts a personalized skincare routine consisting of multiple products for the user that are discreetly delivered to them. Continuous health education and advice from experts are provided through the app to ensure users remain engaged and heal effectively.

Jindagi

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Jindagi is a mobile app for improving the health of PLHIVs (People Living with HIV) available at no cost to the patients.

PLHIV on medication can live a healthy life and with a normal life expectancy. However, stigma and poor diagnosis rates continue to make HIV a public health issue claiming more 32 million lives. Patients who are not diagnosed early or do not adhere to the medication not only increase their health risks but also lead to increased risk of HIV transmission.

Jindagi uses gamified rich media, including quizzes and videos/infographics to provide relevant information to improve patient behaviour on medication adherence.

By appropriate counselling and treatment advice, Jindagi ensures that patients continue to engage with their doctors. Using the app provides easy access to information without the social stigma.

CWDHA 2018

QHRMS - Quarantine Health Record Management & Surveillance System

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Quarantine Unit - Ministry of Health


Quarantine Health Record Management and Surveillance System (QHRMS) is designed and developed for the Quarantine Unit, Ministry of Health, Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine of Sri Lanka.

QHRMS enables to capture and store the data collected from all the sea ports and air ports of Sri Lanka while transforming from conventional paper based health record management system to fully automated online system. Through QHRMS the real-time data is analyzed according to various quarantine requirements and it generates reports and alerts to provide information in order to facilitate the national health surveillance of Sri Lanka. The QHRMS is successfully implemented in all the sea ports and air ports of Sri Lanka in 2017.The previous practice was involved with traditional paper based processes with high time consuming in collection of data. It dealt with manual writing in the paper registers which was associated with high space consumption of storing and difficulty in analyzing data when generating reports. QHRMS enables automatic reports and alerts instantly in high accuracy. The requirement of human resources will be lesser to run the intended functions. Therefore it could be considered as an effective and efficient product introduced to the Ministry of Health Sri Lanka.

The QHRMS is based on DHIS2 backbone which is free and open source, it doesn't involve with developmental costs due to involvement of Medical officers in Health Informatics . Moreover, the running cost is considerably low due to limited involvement of the human resources, time and space ect. As the QHRMS is designed to operate at a lowest cost it will suit to any country with low resources in order to operate efficiently. 

The QHRMS is successfully implemented in all the sea ports and air ports of Sri Lanka since 2018 January.

Laboratory based (NS1) e-surveillance system for Dengue infection

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Provincial Director of Health Services - Western Province , Sri Lanka

A rising trend in dengue fever has been observed in Sri Lanka over the past few years. It has been challenging how the epidemic could be effectively controlled. Rapid investigation of suspected/diagnosed cases and taking appropriate action to prevent further spread has been the most effective control strategy so far. Considerable delays in investigating cases and thus taking preventive action have been noticed in the current paper based notification system where the notification is done on clinical suspicion. Another drawback in existing notification process is unable to detect the progress and status of the notification
A new laboratory based online e-notification system was established from April 2016, within Colombo District. The new system covers the laboratories of both the government and private sector.
The process start at the laboratories by creating a new notification whenever a Dengue NS1 Antigen test result is detected positive
Notification will be forwarded to the relevant MOH area at the PDHS Office and MOH will update action implemented to complete the notification process. A dashboard visualizes the each notification status with a color code
Viewing of notifications, organizing and directing to the attention of the relevant Medical Officers of Health (MOH) is done on the same day at the office of Provincial Director of Health Services.

This is functioning in Colombo and Gampaha districts with the participation of covering all the Medical Officer of Health (MOH) areas and private laboratories in the districts

Evitalz

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Evitalz Information Management Pvt Ltd

- Evitalz is a tele-health kit with a combination of medical diagnostic devices & secured patient vital sign recorder & database software.
- The kit offers a comprehensive solution for Health care professionals, first responders, rural or urban clinics and transmit patient's vital signs data to medical specialists for further consultation.
- Records 5 vital signs & more… in real time and data recorded can be sent to the company or a designated hospital / doctor
- Helps in early detection of NCD’s and it could decrease number of individuals needing treatment in urban hospitals
- Quick evaluation of criticality due to illness and injuries

Pilot projects & customers:
- NHAI 108 Highway Ambulance
- Apollo, Kumaran Hospitals
- MRF Aircraft
- Sankara Foundation
- Jaya Clinic

Non-invasive Cardiovascular Health Monitoring Device (Jendo)

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Jendo Innovations (Pvt)Ltd

Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the leading cause of death in the world, representing a third of all global deaths. 17.7 million people died from CVDs in 2015 and 30% of the global population are at risk of cardiovascular diseases. Of these, more than 75% of the deaths occurred in low and middle income countries. Hence a total addressable market of 2.5 billion people exists, who are in need of an affordable screening and cardiovascular health monitoring system. Medical research establishes that endothelial functionality can be used to determine the cardiovascular health. Jendo uses this knowledge to predict the health conditions of the user by drawing conclusions between determined endothelial functionality of the particular user and information stored in the cloud for comparable individuals. Measurements are taken from the user’s fingertip, through a pulse oximeter and temperature sensor capturing the blood circulation patterns (volume changes) across the body and the temperature variations of the circulated blood after cuffing and releasing of the hand. From above data, Jendo uses proprietary algorithms and machine learning techniques to analyze the function of innermost cell layer of human blood vessels known as the endothelium, thus determining endothelial functionality of the patient. Jendo will be able to compete with world class manufacturers of medical devices to bring in foreign revenue to Sri Lanka strengthening the economy as well as the reputation of Sri Lanka as being at the forefront of biomedical engineering company in the world.

Jendo was able to acquire seed funding from Softlogic Holdings, who owns Asiri Hospitals, the largest hospital chain in Sri Lanka and Softlogic life, an insurance company looking for novel insurtech. Currently, we are in the process of conducting further clinical trials with Asiri Hospitals. Currently, the product is not available commercially. It is available only for the internal research purposes. We do conduct second stage clinical trials at Asiri Group of Hospitals with patients and staff.Participants are taken into the study only with a writtenconsent as approved by Colombo Medical Faculty Ethics Review Committee and Asiri Hospital Ethics Committee. They are attached with the Jendo sensors and will be able to assess their vascular health within 15 minutes. The records will be saved in the cloud secure server. Then, each participant could view their progressive vascular health with a mobile application.

Telemedicine for Low Resource Countries

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Department of Biomedical Physics & Technology, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Majority of Bangladesh population (65%) lives in villages and lack access to qualified doctors since doctors do not want to live in villages. The telemedicine system developed by us from scratch has been specially designed to provide primary and secondary care through minimally trained personnel at the rural centres keeping the culture and behaviour of the rural population in purview. The system is based on internet and all data are archived in cloud storage. Basic physical measurements are carried out using low cost commercial devices and the values are typed in. Our system has integrated diagnostic devices like Electronic Stethsocope and Digital ECG, both developed by us indigenously, using which real time data transfer to a remote doctor is done, improving diagnosis. The doctor, after a video conference with a patient, generates a software aided prescription which is archived, printed at the rural centre and then handed over to the patient. Through continuous R&D more diagnostic devices will be added in the near future. The software is a bilingual one and continuously updated based on feedback making it robust and user-friendly. Our system is working in Bangladesh since 2013 and till August, 2019, more than 26,000 patient consultations have been given with satisfaction. Now this system is ready to be deployed in other low resource countries as well. Early intervention through telemedicine saves patients from complications and reduces the necessity of tertiary care.

We had provided about 13,000 patient consultations since 2013 when we presented our telemedicine system at the 3rd CWDGHA in 2018. Till August 2019 since then, we have provided an additional 13,000, doubling the figure. This shows the success of the system. 
BRAC, a Bangladeshi NGO with international repute has joined our programme as a user of our telemedicine services for more than one year now, and are satisfied with the performance. 

We are now interested to get implementation partners for deploying the system in other low resource countries. We do not take any patents, and will give the technology freely through qualified people in these countries, who would take the responsibility to replicate the system on their countries. Of course, expenses to modify and adapt the software and initial travel, etc., will need to be covered.

ClicknCare

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Simple Motion Sdn Bhd

ClicknCare is an online platform for Migrant Workers where they can find a doctor who speaks their language. Migrant workers can register for the service using the Smartphones and later top-up from nearest shops or from agents who are live in the same community. They can log in and find their native doctors online whenever they need to and use our two products ClickTalk or ClickDoc. The prescription then is available on their smartphone. They are able to upload the lab results and pictures also. Later with the prescription they are able to buy the medicines. Currently we are working on to include clinics, pharmacies and labs as our partners to make things easy for them. We want the medicines to be supplied at their doorstep.

We have participated in many more competitions and pitches where we were among the top finalists. Currently participating in Global Accelerator Program Cohort 3 run by MaGIC Malaysia. Shortlisted by BlueChilli for the Healthech Accelerator Program in Singapore.

We have been able to do pilots and arranged three events to demonstrate our products to Migrant workers. Got one clinic as our partner and now in talk with Pharmacies to be on board. We are also in discussions with Insurance companies to bring coverage for the workers.

Tupaia

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Beyond Essential Systems

Tupaia is a data aggregation, analysis and visualisation platform that maps health systems in low and middle-income countries. The project combines data from sources including DHIS2, mSupply and our MediTrak app to help improve
medicines availability, disease surveillance, immunization coverage, disaster response and to strengthen service provision. Tupaia also gives donors a bird’s eye view of performance metrics and helps patients to locate appropriate care more quickly and safely.
Tupaia presents a real-time, interactive map that is already in use across six countries in the Pacific. It helps health workers, donors and senior decision makers clearly see where resources are needed most. With the ability to zoom out from one country and into another instantly, pulling data from multiple sources, we believe it is the first regional platform of its kind, anywhere in the world - and the entire codebase has been released free and open-source.
Tupaia syncs data from a variety of sources, including eLMIS systems (mSupply Desktop and mSupply Mobile), DHIS2 and via a free health data collection app called Tupaia MediTrak. Tupaia is capable of aggregating data from any source however and we sync with bespoke systems in Kiribati (MS-1) and Fiji, with plans to sync data from the Fiji Bureau of Meteorology by the end of 2019. Our app can also be used to collect HIS data and sync directly into DHIS2, so that you can use a single data collection app for all health programs.
Data from existing platforms are synced to the Tupaia server using APIs to give a comprehensive picture of health services, with mapping led overlays of health indicators (such as medicines availability or the status of cold chain equipment) and pre-configured data dashboards that are customisable for each country and participating organisation.
As part of Tupaia, mSupply Mobile has also been released open-source and since then is now being used in 9 countries around the world.

Tupaia is now in use across 8 countries, with over 800 registered users (including healthworkers and donors). We have received over 35,000 survey responses and sync data in near real-time from 5 different sources.
We have received funding support from the Gates Foundation, the DFAT Indo-Pacific Centre for Health Security, innovationXchange and UNFPA, along with multiple organisations in Australia (such as the University of Sydney and Burnet Institute). 
We are also receiving mentoring via the UNICEF Innovation Fund Sprint Support Program and our projects in Vanuatu are being assessed using adaptive learning by Results 4 Development.


eRHMIS -School Health

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Family Health Bureau 

School health programme of Sri Lanka is done by collaboration of medical officer of health (MOH) office staff in supervision of Medical officer of maternal and child health (MOMCH) at district level while Central level planning, co-ordination, training, supervision, monitoring & evaluation functions were carried out by the Family Health Bureau (FHB). Paper based School health management information data flow was consist of eleven different forms with total of twenty-five copies. Working with this paper-based system had significant issues in data accuracy, timeliness, completeness and it increased work load of field level health care workers mainly Public health inspectors (PHI), supervising public health inspector (SPHI) and MOH. As the second phase of eRHMIS (Electronic Reproductive Health Management Information System) electronic school health management information system was developed by the FHB in 2018.
While transforming paper-based school health data flow into electronic format modifications were done to three forms (H 1014, H1015A, H1247) to prevent data duplications and to improve user friendliness. At the end of the revision size all three forms were reduced while maintain to capture all the data collectively. Number of forms need to fill at school medical inspection process reduced to eight forms with only fourteen copies. None of the existing forms or summery sheets were not remove from the school health data flow as they can auto generate from new electronic school health management information system
Electronic school health management information system has reduced manual work load by reducing number of forms to be filled and reducing the size of each form while maintain to capture all the data captured from paper-based information system. Currently eRHMIS has been implemented in nation wide manner in all 354 MOH areas and system has been included all government schools, all piriven schools and most of the international schools in the country.

eRHMIS School Health has been implemented nationwide in 2018. System currently capturing data related to 4 million school going children in the country from all government schools, all priviven schools and most of the international schools, which is over 10000 in number.

eRHMIS- Maternal and Child Health

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Family health Bureau

Family Health Bureau is the focal point responsible for planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of Maternal and Child Health (MCH) services in Sri Lanka. It is a government institution under the Ministry of Health. Maternal and child health services are provided at the community level by Public Health Midwives (PHMs) who are the grass root level workers in MCH service delivery. For planning, monitoring and evaluation of MCH activities in the country, it is essential to gather good quality data on the provision of service delivery and outcomes. Over more than 30 years, data collection was done through an entire totally paper-based system. This paper-based information system was the main source of data for calculating national MCH indicators. Working with Being a paper-based system, there were significant issues in data accuracy, timeliness and completeness. Given In view of improving accuracy, timeliness and completeness of data, Family Health Bureau implemented a web based electronic information management system, namely electronic reproductive health management information system(eRHMIS). It provides both data transmission medium and data analyzing tools for the user. It helps to ensure ensuring information availability for decision making-routine collection, processing, interpretation and dissemination of reproductive health data, and helps preparation of annual Reports, Quarterly newsletters, progress reports, feedback letters and other documents relevant to Maternal and Child Health Programme. Lack of infrastructure and lack of human resources with proper computer literacy was the main challenge we faced. Other than that existing paper-based system was well established, and people were used to working with it, there was a challenge in building up positive attitudes towards an electronic system. So that, we preserve existing data entry form architecture in the electronic form to keep familiar background. We conducted training programmes in all districts of the country for all system users. The previous system took more than three months to reach data from the periphery to centre, and it took nearly a one year to analyze all data. With this system data transmission time and analyse time has dropped down to minutes while maintaining better data quality. Our main achievement was to receive data in timeliness manner from almost all units of the country. Currently, eRHMIS is running as one of the most successful health information system implementations in the country. This system is a cost effective, user-friendly data collecting and analyzing tool for any country to improve efficiency and data quality of maternal and child healthcare

eRHMIS - Maternal and Child Health (MCH) comportment was successfully implemented in all 354 MOH (Medical Officer of Health) areas in 2017. It collects data from all Maternal and child clinics in the country and all the PHM (Public Health Midwife) areas of the country. eRHMIS-MCH component received 100% data completeness in both year 2017 and 2018

oDoc

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oDoc (Private) Limited

oDoc is a B2B telemedicine app that connects employees with doctors.

We enable companies to provide a high-impact health-benefit.

We are the largest B2B telemedicine company in Sri Lanka and we are now expanding across India.

Techstars, LOLC, MAS and Brandix are stakeholders in the company.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dlpCHJi7CY

The above is the pitch that we made at our Techstars Demo Day.

ohumSky

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Ohum Healthcare Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

A cloud-based integrated Enterprise Hospital Management System for enterprise hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, public health facilities, and community health. The comprehensive solution includes all of the following:
- Computerised Patient Order Entry (CPOE)
- Electronic Medical Records
- Clinical documentation and Controlled Clinical Workflows
- Integrated Labs, pharmacy, inventory and asset management
- Interfacing with equipments including PACS
- Automated Patient administration for appointments, admissions, billing, etc
- HR and Financial Solution
- Mobility Solution for clinicians 
- Patient Portal
- Complete Clinical and Business Analytics Solution

Key Highlights:
- 1 Patient, 1 Medical Record For Life 
- Zero typing
- HIMSS Stage 6 ready
- 168 modules, 43 Core Processes, 42 Specialties
- End-to-end automation, integrations, transformation
- Enables clinicians to View, Order, and Document Care in one easy flow from a single screen
- User-friendly and intuitive screens

A new version of the product is now available. Other Awards won:
1. “Leading in IT Solution for Public Health” Award: June 2019: 4th Healthcare Innovation Summit and Awards 2019, Mumbai
2. "Best Healthcare IT Company for Clinical Transformation" Award: Mar 2018: 8th MT India Healthcare Awards 2018, Mumbai
3. "Best Clinical Transformation Solution Provider Of the Year" Award: Feb 2018: 2nd Edition - World Health & Wellness Congress & Awards, Mumbai

Other Recognition Received:
1. Udai Kumar as COVER STORY among “The 10 Transformational Leaders in Healthcare”: Aug 2019: Beyond Exclamation Magazine Special Health care Edition, Las Vegas, USA
2. Best of 10 Healthcare Brands”: Feb 2019: Insights Care Magazine
3. COVER STORY on "10 Most Promising Healthcare Technology Startups": December 2017: CIO Review Magazine
4. Udai Kumar recognized as one of "The 10 Most Admired Leaders in Healthcare": November 2017: Insights Success Magazine
5. Udai Kumar named among "Top 50 Successful Indian Entrepreneurs in the US": September 2017: The Technology Headlines Magazine, Texas, USA

ZM Digital Immunization Registry

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IRD

Despite the availability of free routine immunizations in low and middle-income countries, many children are incompletely vaccinated, vaccinated late for age or drop out over the course of the immunization schedule. Our solution aims at reducing child morbidity and mortality through a comprehensive Digital Immunization Registry designed to leverage low-cost technology to improve both immunization coverage and timeliness in resource-constrained settings. Zindagi Mehfooz (ZM) is an Android phone-based platform that enables vaccinators to digitally enroll and track immunization of every child. Our solution builds on existing mobile technologies to digitize paper-based records to reduce frontline health worker (FHW) burden, promote evidence-based decision making and easy communication with caregivers, all at minimum operational costs. ZM is a cost-effective and efficient disease prevention system incorporating innovative technology features including unique identification through quick response barcodes, interactive SMS reminders for community engagement, decision support systems for routine/catch-up immunizations, real-time workforce tracking, predictive analytics to identify children at high risk of drop-out and customized report generation for monitoring. ZM has improved immunization service delivery through leveraging technology for greater efficiency for FHWs, better monitoring support for supervisors and sustained contact with caregivers. 

Since 2017, ZM has enrolled over 1.7 million children across Sindh province in Pakistan. An additional 500 vaccinators have been trained on ZM, bringing the total count to 2,423 government vaccinators who are currently using ZM for routine data collection. Iterative improvements have been made to ZM after incorporating feedback from end users. Additionally, functionality of ZM has also been enhanced by adding a child registry feature, enabling all children to be enrolled irrespective of their vaccination status, thus helping ensure that each child is effectively captured in the ZM system. Moreover, vaccinator tracking and coverage data from ZM is also being used to generate GIS polygon maps, helping government to translate information into actionable data, and covering any unreached geographical pockets of children. In order to keep the Registry updated, new vaccines being introduced by EPI in Pakistan (such as the Typhoid vaccine) have also been made part of the ZM Registry. In view of the evidence of ZM’s potential to positively impact immunization service delivery, it has also received additional funding for continued implementation and for building technical capacity of government for eventual take-over of the system.

SUPPORT PD

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Online learning intervention to develop psychosocial competencies

Modern technology has provided more opportunities for teenagers to experience new things. As a result, teenagers are more vulnerable for abuse and health problems in particularly for teenage pregnancy. To minimize this issue, Health Organizations have started conducting workshops with the intention of empowering teenagers with knowledge, attitude and safety skills required to prevent pregnancy. However, teenagers seem reluctant to show their interest for studying about sexuality and talk about their issues openly. Therefore, health organizations emphasize the importance of identifying an innovative and personalized strategy to develop psychosocial competencies in teenagers. Since information and communication technology has proven to bring benefits for education through online learning technologies, the present study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of an online educational intervention to develop psychosocial competencies required to prevent teenage pregnancy. Data were gathered through interviews, questionnaires and focused group interviews from a group of female adolescents. The findings imply that psychosocial competencies can be improved better through an online intervention than a classroom-based intervention and it suggested that delivering lessons using videos, games and discussions might probably be well accepted by the adolescents. According to the findings, several paper prototypes were developed and evaluated. Based on the results of the prototype evaluation, an online intervention was developed. The final product was evaluated in a true experiment. The results of the study could be interpreted as the online intervention was successful in achieving psychosocial competencies among adolescents. Further the findings of the present study signified that the psychosocial competencies can be developed among the teenagers using videos, games and discussions as instructional aids or approaches.

GSMA mNutrition Initiative

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Lifesaving maternal and newborn child health and nutrition mobile content delivered to over 2 million women and their families across eight sub-Saharan African markets (Ghana, Nigeria, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Zambia and Mozambique). Mobile health (mHealth) services are offered in multiple local languages and the content is validated and approved by the Ministry of Health. While the core service is mobile content, to ensure commercial sustainability multiple other components are added depending on the country. Demonstrated impact on nutrition behaviour among users: 69% of mHealth service users are implementing appropriate nutrition practices – a 13 percentage point improvement over non-users.

Online learning intervention to develop psychosocial competencies

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Ohum Healthcare Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

A cloud-based integrated Enterprise Hospital Management System for enterprise hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, public health facilities, and community health. The comprehensive solution includes all of the following:
- Computerised Patient Order Entry (CPOE)
- Electronic Medical Records
- Clinical documentation and Controlled Clinical Workflows
- Integrated Labs, pharmacy, inventory and asset management
- Interfacing with equipments including PACS
- Automated Patient administration for appointments, admissions, billing, etc
- HR and Financial Solution
- Mobility Solution for clinicians 
- Patient Portal
- Complete Clinical and Business Analytics Solution

Key Highlights:
- 1 Patient, 1 Medical Record For Life 
- Zero typing
- HIMSS Stage 6 ready
- 168 modules, 43 Core Processes, 42 Specialties
- End-to-end automation, integrations, transformation
- Enables clinicians to View, Order, and Document Care in one easy flow from a single screen
- User-friendly and intuitive screens

A new version of the product is now available. Other Awards won:
1. “Leading in IT Solution for Public Health” Award: June 2019: 4th Healthcare Innovation Summit and Awards 2019, Mumbai
2. "Best Healthcare IT Company for Clinical Transformation" Award: Mar 2018: 8th MT India Healthcare Awards 2018, Mumbai
3. "Best Clinical Transformation Solution Provider Of the Year" Award: Feb 2018: 2nd Edition - World Health & Wellness Congress & Awards, Mumbai

Other Recognition Received:
1. Udai Kumar as COVER STORY among “The 10 Transformational Leaders in Healthcare”: Aug 2019: Beyond Exclamation Magazine Special Health care Edition, Las Vegas, USA
2. Best of 10 Healthcare Brands”: Feb 2019: Insights Care Magazine
3. COVER STORY on "10 Most Promising Healthcare Technology Startups": December 2017: CIO Review Magazine
4. Udai Kumar recognized as one of "The 10 Most Admired Leaders in Healthcare": November 2017: Insights Success Magazine
5. Udai Kumar named among "Top 50 Successful Indian Entrepreneurs in the US": September 2017: The Technology Headlines Magazine, Texas, USA

Stay Safe - Mobile App for HIV Risk Assessment

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Stay Safe - Mobile App for HIV Risk Assessment

HIV incidence is rising all over the world. Even though Sri Lanka is a low prevalence country the incidence of HIV is still rising.The youth and the key population groups (men having sex with men, female sex workers, prisoners, Intra Venous drug uses and transgender people) are highly vulnerable for HIV infections, but they have barriers to access to health facilities due to legal and cultural issues. The universal target of elimination of new HIV infections in 2030 as sustainable development goals could be achieved only by breaking these barriers. Specifically, the youth and key population groups would prefer to know their HIV risk for their sexual acts assessed personally without divulging the information to anyone else. Hence development of a user friendly mobile app to assess HIV risk following a sexual act and to promote HIV testing is a timely requirement. Stay safe mobile app calculates your HIV risk for the last sexual activity and gives advice on what to do next. HIV testing is recommended if needed and you are directed to the closest clinic for Sexually Transmitted Infections in Sri Lanka through GPS location.

Incubating SMART Nursing Professionals: "Heda Nena Waduma"

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Incubating SMART Nursing Professionals: "Heda Nena Waduma"


The project, which aligns with the UN SDGs, is an innovative platform (incubator) which is utilized to support the Government Nursing Training Schools in Sri Lanka and the practicing nurses in South Asia. The stakeholders of the project are IIHS, SLNA and State NTS, and practicing nurses in Sri Lanka and Maldives through establishment of Public Private Partnerships (SDG 17).
The project eliminates geographical, administrative and professional barriers in education and allows the opportunity for all nursing professionals to work and study aligning with SDG 10. This is performed through promoting e learning; improving the accessibility to modern educational programs; evidence based practice; student centric learning; creating Enjoyable and effective learning environment for students; Quality teaching environment for tutors; providing Cost effective & Environmental friendly solutions(SDG 4).
The project promotes reduced use of paper based education and face to face learning, including delivery and assessment (theory and clinical) (SDG 15).
The project envisages Health and Wellbeing of the nursing students, tutors and practicing nurses leading to creation of competent professionals (SDG 3).

Zindagi Mehfooz (Safe Life) Digital Immunization Registry

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Zindagi Mehfooz (Safe Life) Digital Immunization Registry

Despite the availability of free routine immunizations in low and middle-income countries, many children are incompletely vaccinated, vaccinated late for age or drop out over the course of the immunization schedule. Our solution aims at reducing child morbidity and mortality through a comprehensive Digital Immunization Registry designed to leverage low-cost technology to improve both immunization coverage and timeliness in resource-constrained settings. Government immunization programs fail to deliver due to inefficiencies and inaccuracies stemming from demand and supply side challenges including poor data quality and usage, low worker motivation and lack of demand from caregivers. ZM is an Android phone-based platform that addresses these challenges by enabling vaccinators to digitally enroll and track immunization of every child. ZM provides a robust and dependable platform for accelerating health gains while simultaneously increasing health system efficiencies, promoting vaccine demand and reducing government costs for immunization service delivery.

MyDoctor.lk Health care App for all your Medical Needs

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MyDoctor.lk Health care App for all your Medical Needs


MyDoctor.lk Health care App for all medical needs, provides the core service of tele-medicine. It connect all the individual silos in health sector, to build a connected health care eco system. This brings convenience for the patients to acquire all common health services, while helping the clinicians to practice with ease. It reduces the digital divide between pharmacies, laboratories, patients and clinicians. Basically its a one stop shop for all health needs. It provides remote doctor consultation, maintenance of health profile of clients, pharmaceutical delivery, home visited lab tests, auto update of lab reports to health profile and loyalty scheme.

PMB (Panacea's Medi-Belt)

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PMB (Panacea's Medi-Belt)


 

PMB is a Wearable Patient Monitoring Device that is Engineered, Designed and Manufactured solely by a team of Sri Lankan engineers. It basically captures Critical Health Values like the ECG , Heart Rate, Body Temperature and the Motion of the person. Once the data is captured, it is transmitted to the algorithm in the cloud servers which in returns intelligently analyzes and alerts the person if an abnormality related to the captured critical health values have been identified. The alert generating mechanism is implemented in a manner to provide immediate medical attention to the person at risk by Automatically alerting the Emergency Medical Teams and the ‘Loved Ones’ closest to the point of crisis. The system could intelligently list the nearest hospital/s for the patient to attend to , if they are in a ‘Non-Critical’ Health Condition.

Apeksha Hospital - Breast and colorectal cancer Registry

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Apeksha Hospital - Breast and colorectal cancer Registry

Cancer is regarded as one of the major non-communicable diseases affecting Sri Lanka. Population based cancer databases are a valuable resource for monitoring incidence and mortality from cancer and, play a vital role in cancer control programmes. Since the Sri Lanka national cancer registry is limited to collecting only basic cancer data, many important cancer related data are missed which are considered mandatory to improve cancer care. A cancer specific database can provide data which form the basis for research on cancer causes and prevention as well as to monitor efficiency and disparities in cancer care which would help improve outcomes for patients with cancer. The role of health services research and population-based outcome studies is increasingly recognized as a critical step to improving societal benefit of cancer therapies.
Tumour specific registries are different from national cancer registries; while the latter collect only basic cancer information (i.e. incidence, stage at diagnosis and mortality), the former provide rich details regarding disease characteristics, treatment delivery and outcome. The main objective of this project is to establish a tumour specific cancer database to collect comprehensive prospective data on breast and colorectal cancer and at the National Cancer Institute, Maharagama.

The Em1 Microscope: Portable, Affordable, Digital-Enabled Microscopy

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The Em1 Microscope: Portable, Affordable, Digital-Enabled Microscopy


The Em1 microscope meets an urgent and pressing need for a robust, portable, affordable field microscope capable of assisting the diagnoses of a range of tropical diseases either in arduous field settings or remotely via digital interfaces. It combines leading-edge optical engineering with a robust and simple-to-use physical interface that harnesses the pre-existing power of smart phones to enable the Em1 microscope to deliver portable high specification microscopy at a substantially lower unit cost than possible using traditional microscopes. This clever yet simple design has been used to create an exciting innovative product that has the potential to save lives in developing countries and beyond, along with wider applications.

Remotely Accessible Healthcare At Home

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Remotely Accessible Healthcare At Home


 

The main function of RAH@H is to educate, empower, influence, monitor and treat patients through its integrated portal and App. Patients are able to stay connected 24/7 to their hospitals. They can take vital reading through RAH@H’s medical devices. They can get instant consultations through Telemedicine portal of RAH@H and get educated through webinars and medical encyclopedia. Whereas, doctors and nurses can give consultations by reviewing the PHR. While tailoring the portal, the team of RAH@H also had a panel of doctors which made it a very doctor-friendly platform.

Kasvuseula - application for tracking healthy growth of children

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Kasvuseula - application for tracking healthy growth of children

Kasvuseula is an easy-to-use online service that provides parents with reliable data on the growth of their child. The service shows the development of the child’s weight and height in comparison to average norm trends – and informs parents if there is a likelihood of significant deviation from normal growth patterns. Parents add their child’s height and weight data to the application and receive both visual and textual feedback. They can also share this information with medical professionals, in case there is a concern regarding the growth of their child. The service also provides parents with a handy way of recording their children’s vaccinations. Vaccination data is visualised by a clear diagram showing vaccinations under the national vaccination program and an indicative vaccination schedule.

Using OpenSRP for increasing Front-line Health worker efficiencies in Pakistan

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Using OpenSRP for increasing Front-line Health worker efficiencies in Pakistan


Frontline health workers (FHWs) such as lady health workers (LHWs) and vaccinators are often the first and only point of contact for reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health (RMNCH) services in Pakistan. FHWs are often inadequately trained, guided and have poor access to health information. Furthermore, the burden of paper-based reporting, including documenting service provision activities manually often interferes with client centered care and also results in the duplication of the same information across multiple registers and manually tallying data for reporting. Additionally, paper-based data does not facilitate continuity of care between visits or across providers or different vertical healthcare programs leading to a missed window of opportunity for effective interventions. Open Smart Register Platform (OpenSRP) addresses these strategic challenges for Health System Strengthening by enabling data collection, client management, reporting and access to real time data for actionable decision making through a single integrated electronic health record.

Electronic Mental Health Management Information System, Sri Lanka

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Electronic Mental Health Management Information System, Sri Lanka


In Sri Lanka, in-ward mental health client data is captured by electronic indoor morbidity and mortality record (eIMMR), while outpatient data was captured through an aggregated clinic return system. This outpatient return system was not capable of generating mental health information in an effective and efficient way. Since majority of the patients are handled by outpatient clinics, we were missing large proportion of data.
Development of an electronic Mental Health Management Information System (eMHMIS) initiated, to overcome the limitations of timeliness, accuracy and quality. The eMHMIS intends to capture data using electronic formats and the previous Mental Health returns were revised to accommodate minimal data set principle with eliminating duplicate entries.
The system ensures generation of information in a real-time platform which facilitates taking managerial decisions, interpretation and dissemination of mental health information. The eMHMIS captures facility level data such as source of referrals, disorders, human resource and infrastructure data and the data regard to performance monitoring.

Innovative Solution for Mobile X-rays in Emergency Care

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Innovative Solution for Mobile X-rays in Emergency Care

Emergency in-ward X-rays plays a vital and potentially life-saving role by providing information to make quick decisions. However, the process of creating an X-ray request to getting a good quality film into clinicians hand is not a simple process, given the other circumstances like the time of the day and availability of staff. The total process will burn 45 vital minutes on average, resulting in delays in decision making. If the image is of low quality, repeat procedure will take more time. Furthermore, the time is not the only problem. X-ray films would not allow accurate measurement of distance which is essential for some lifesaving procedures, i.e. inserting arterial lines.
Implemented solution incorporates the Registration, Admission, Discharge and Transfer (ADT) and Radiology Information System (RIS) modules of Hospital Information Management System (HIMS) with open source PACS and a DICOM viewer to provide a complete solution from patient registration, admission, requesting an investigation, capturing, viewing and storing the images. It automates the whole process of performing an emergency X-ray in ICU setup.
Actions undertaken are summarised below.
1. The RIS module in HIMS was revamped.
2. Obtained and integrated an X-ray digitalising cassette to the HIMS
3. Open source PACS system was integrated to HIMS
4. Open source DICOM viewer was integrated to HIMS
5. Installed HD quality laptop on a wheel and obtained a tablet computer with HD quality viewing to the NICU

Smartphone Application for Non-physician Health Workers to Manage Epilepsy

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Smartphone Application for Non-physician Health Workers to Manage Epilepsy


Epilepsy is an important non-communicable disease characterized by recurrent convulsions due to episodes of abnormal electrical activity in the brain. It is a considerable health problem in low-income countries because people with epilepsy (PWE) are usually young, they are six times more likely to die than those unaffected, they are more likely to suffer burns and other injuries and they and their families very often suffer social exclusion in their communities. Yet epilepsy is a very treatable condition; in richer countries two thirds of PWE are free of episodes on relatively inexpensive treatment. But in poorer countries PWE cannot access this treatment because there are no doctors nearby to prescribe it. The World Health Organisation has recognized this and suggested that non-physician health workers (NPHWs) are empowered to diagnose and manage PWE. To do that they will need tools and this smartphone application has been designed to fulfill that role.

Telenor Health Tonic Ecosystem

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Telenor Health Tonic Ecosystem


Tonic’s model of “Primary Care Plus” represents a new model for advancing universal health coverage, through mobile technology.

Globally, more than 400 million people lack access to basic primary care. Further, those lucky enough to reach a doctor often find that the experience is less “medical home” and more “medical drive thru”: the average consultation length in Bangladesh, according to the BMJ, is 48 seconds. This poor accessibility and quality of primary care has major impacts on health outcomes.

The Tonic Doctor feature of Tonic makes high quality primary care accessible 24 hours a day, seven days a week via phone, chat, and video. At the same time, Tonic extends beyond providing great quality medical advice to include benefits like health insurance (“Tonic Cash”), specialist referrals (“Tonic Navigator”), and lifestyle coaching (“Tonic Life”). These features help to make comprehensive primary care accessible for millions of people for the first time.

Community Health Information Tracking System

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Community Health Information Tracking System

Electronic medical record for public frontline clinics in remote underserved areas

SMS for Life 2.0

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SMS for Life 2.0


The solution is based on the use of simple and affordable technologies (mobile phones, SMS messages, smartphones and tablet computers, the Internet and electronic mapping) so that health facilities that dispense essential medicines can report their stock levels and key disease surveillance indicators to the district medical officers who are responsible for treatment availability.

In addition to stock visibility, the system enables to collect timely and quality disease surveillance data, hence allowing all levels in the health pyramid (districts, regions, national malaria control programs, ministries of health) to monitor and support the operations in the primary health facilities – ultimately making fact-based decisions to better assess the adequacy of the resource allocation with the actual needs. Stock-outs can thus be resolved within days whereas in the past this would have taken weeks or months.

The tablet-based platform also offers high-quality training programs and educational video resources to support the continuous education of health workers.

The data collected by SMS for Life can be integrated into a country’s health information system and strategy. Implementation is tailored to the specific needs and priorities of individual countries, and the system is flexible, meaning it can be expanded to any number of health facilities, countries, programs, stock items or disease surveillance data.

Heart failure mobile App (Dhadkan version 2)

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Heart failure mobile App (Dhadkan version 2)


Dhadkan is a Mobile App for remotely monitoring and providing medical assistance to the patients of heart failure. There are about 10 million patients of heart failure in India and about one-third of the admitted patients are likely to get readmitted or die in the next 3-6 months. The App collects patient’s data (at any desired interval) on blood pressure, heart rate, and weight, and transmits it to the authorized caregiver (a doctor, nurse or paramedic) who is linked to the patient during the initial registration. It automatically sends a notification to both the doctor and the patient, in case(s) of any drastic changes in patient’s data indicating a possibility of imminent heart failure. Thus, it not only eliminates the need for manual monitoring of each patient by the doctor but also helps them in proactively recommending precautionary action during the treatment period. Our App earned a wide coverage in national media – TV channels and newspapers (in May 2018).

SmartVA-DHIS2 Integration

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SmartVA-DHIS2 Integration

District Health Information System (DHIS) is an open source software platform for reporting, analysis and dissemination of data for all health programs already used by 60 different countries worldwide including Sri Lanka, which is an important public health data platform. While the ongoing process of Verbal autopsy (VA) implementation in Sri Lanka the attention towards migrating to DHIS2 is inevitable. The countries supported by Vital Strategies for CRVS system developments are facing a common problem of translating verbal autopsy data into DHIS2 platform. Currently its done by manually sorting of IHME Smart VA tool generated CSV file fields with a DHIS2 compatible input format. It has been a major drawback faced by 16 different countries supported by Vital Strategies who has adopted OpenVA pipeline to integrate Verbal Autopsy data. With SmartVA DHIS2 solution it would enable each country to visualize, disaggregate, disseminate VA data using DHIS2 platform almost near real-time

Computer Assisted Medical Evaluation of Symptoms

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Computer Assisted Medical Evaluation of Symptoms

CAMEOS is an expert system designed and developed to diagnose diseases. Inference engine simulates the diagnostic reasoning of physicians – namely hypothetico deductive approach and the pattern matching. The input consists of the symptoms. Output consists diagnosis based on proportions. This system helps to solve the following problems commonly seen in General Practice – diagnostic errors, poor documentation of differential diagnosis, poor documentation of steps taken in diagnostic reasoning, poor uptake of clinical practice guidelines and evidence based medicine data, widening gap in the available knowledge and the service quality, health care inequalities and inter practice variations in physician performance.

Jendo

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Jendo


Jendo is a novel health monitoring technology for detection of endothelial dysfunction which leads to cardiovascular diseases such as heart attack, stroke, diabetes and chronic kidney disease. Early detection is the key to prevention and effective treatment, which according to the WHO, can save 50% of the lives lost to cardiovascular diseases.
The Jendo system comprises of a hardware unit and a cloud-based platform, allowing over 2.5 billion people each year to use this as a low cost screening test. It works using PPG and temperature measurements and can give this information to the user through a smart device interface which can also give customized advice for a healthy lifestyle, to prevent the onset of cardiovascular diseases.
Jendo technology can be used for post-surgery care of patients with varicose veins, to monitor blood flow to affected areas. This is vital to avoid complications that arise from poor blood supply.

Integrated Health Information System (IHIS) for Universal Health Coverage

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Integrated Health Information System (IHIS) for Universal Health Coverage

Primary health care (PHC) builds backbone of an effective health-care system by integrating care for individuals, their families and communities. Primary healthcare services require information systems to identify needs of the community, healthcare providers, managers & planners to improve healthcare provisioning & monitoring.

To meet the above mentioned requirements an integrated health information system which can support universal health coverage has been built on an open source & free DHIS2 Tracker platform using living lab concept with active engagement and ownership of health functionaries. It covers all major national health programmes (RCH, NPCDCS, RNTCP etc) and is easily customizable as per the needs of the user.

SlimMe: a diet bot for personal weight loss management

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SlimMe: a diet bot for personal weight loss management

SlimMe is a conversational agent aimed to assist people who are trying to lose or maintain their weight through LINE messenger platform. As a virtual diet assistant, slimMe enables the user to experience simulation on various features such as nutrition assessment, food intake, and exercise history. Nutrition assessment features collect user basic profile that can be used to calculate user daily calorie need. Food intake features will be used to estimate user daily calorie intake. Meanwhile, exercise features will collect information on user exercise activity to estimate calorie burned after exercising. SlimMe can also provide motivational support which consists of a self-report reminder of the user food intake and exercise (#ChooseMyMeal), nutritional knowledge (#NutPedia), inspiration quote (#MoodBooster), and even joke (#JokeCorner). We also provide small talk features to response any messages that not related with nutritional content.

An Affordable Solution for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Training Using Virtual Reality

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An Affordable Solution for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Training Using Virtual Reality


The project aims at developing a Virtual Reality (VR) based application for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) training that can be used to train personnel involved in Emergency Medicine (EM). The VR application, which is the end product of this project, aims at being affordable for health sectors of developing countries such as Sri Lanka.
At the current completed stage a traditional mechanical manikin used for CPR training is augmented using VR. As a learning application, this setup has to be able to provide
feedback to the trainee on whether they are performing CPR correctly which it does using an information panel. This panel provides information on whether the hands have been placed correctly, the depth of the compressions and the pressure applied during compressions.

Tele-health for Migrant Workers from anywhere, anytime

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Tele-health for Migrant Workers from anywhere, anytime

There are 7 million Migrant Workers living in Malaysia from different parts of Asia. Out of these two third are un-documented. Due to Language, cost and documentation majority of the workers are deprived from access to quality health service despite Malaysia having one of the finest health infrastructure. But 80% have Smartphones and 90% use Internet for Social media with a good spending habit. We have developed a web based platform where they are able to connect with their native doctors through their smartphones and get the advise, prescription for the problems.

Nighedaasht

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Nighedaasht

Nighedaasht aims to help reduce maternal mortality ratio to less than 70/100,000 live births by 2030, as outlined in SDG 3.1. It also aims to reduce neonatal mortality to at least as low as 12/1,000 live births, and under-5 mortality to at least as low as 25/1,000 live births, as per SDG 3.2 in the catchment population, by reducing the geographical barriers in health care by enabling access to quality, specialist health services in remote and rural communities in low middle income countries, and improving health outcomes.
To combat internet connectivity barriers in the field, the CMW interface of the app operates solely through cellular SMS services. It aims to strengthen health systems by streamlining data collection and management (through digital health records); improving the referral system and improving communication between CMWs and obstetrician gynecologists during field visits; and enables capacity building of CMWs through educational videos within the app.

CarePay and M-TIBA

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CarePay and M-TIBA


In Kenya, two out of every five people, who need care, do not seek treatment because they lack the money. Nearly half of all healthcare expenditure in Kenya is paid out-of-pocket, which is a burden for millions of Kenyans.

Demand for health financing solutions, such as insurance, remains low – despite massive progress over the last few years. On the supply-side, there are still issues on access and quality.

M-TIBA is transforming how low-income Kenyans are paying for and accessing healthcare. The mobile-based health financing technology platform, integrates health payments and supports greater penetration of health schemes through mobile phones. Creating the trust that it is spent for the right person, for the right care, at the right place, at the right time, at very low transaction costs.

Pakistans’ first Virtual Hospital

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Pakistans’ first Virtual Hospital

Although urban areas in Pakistan contain less than 30% of the population, the healthcare facilities are grossly over-represented here. The result is an urban-biased healthcare model that deprive rural areas of qualified doctors.
As well as lack of qualified and trained doctors this results in..
Evotelemedicine aims to bridge this gap and improve the access to quality healthcare between the provider and the consumers virtually. This platform enables qualified doctors to see patients whenever and wherever needed via two-way live video which in turn ensures access to quality healthcare irrespective of physical distance.

Medical webinars & virtual medical meeting portal

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Medical webinars & virtual medical meeting portal

HCPs are busier than ever. This hampers their need to continuously keep them informed of the latest education/updates on health. MedWeb provides HCPs with the opportunity without leaving their workplaces can attend and actively participate in training sessions, workshops and hold virtual meetings with their peers.
PharmEvo Medweb is a state of the art webinar & virtual medical meeting portal which allows speakers separately and jointly to deliver presentations/lectures online to an audience comprising of individuals and groups from anywhere in the world.
It helps create a dynamic and innovative learning environment for doctors, students, medical societies and associations to run, manage and access lectures and conduct virtual meetings no matter where they are irrespective of any device or platform.

Blood Safety Strengthening Programme: The Development and Implementation of BSIS

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Blood Safety Strengthening Programme: The Development and Implementation of BSIS


Safe blood is critical to treatment of postpartum haemorrhage, a condition estimated to be the cause of 23% of maternal deaths in Africa annually. Safe blood is also used for the treatment of childhood malaria, severe malnutrition, emergency medicine and surgery. Most countries in Africa collect only half of the blood needed to meet their transfusion requirements. BSIS facilitates the production of safe blood by managing information within blood services from the point of donation to the point of transfusion. In this way BSIS facilitates improved blood collection processes as well as ensuring that only safe blood is labelled and released to health facilities. The BSIS implementation models ensures that the system is safely and sustainably implemented at low resource blood services. Focusing on capacity building that promotes local ownership of the information system as well as building skills and knowledge required for system use, management and maintenance.

Medical Certification of Cause of Death Quality Assessment Tool

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Medical Certification of Cause of Death Quality Assessment Tool

In Sri Lanka, close to 47 per cent of all deaths take place in hospitals and are certified by doctors using the Death Declaration (Form B33) The Death Declaration is usually written by the doctor who attended and all cause of death (COD) statistics produced by the Civil Registration and Vital Statistics System for hospital deaths are based on the underlying cause of death derived from the Death Declaration. Analysis of these statistics are vital to determine the country’s health priorities and prevention strategies. To improve the cause of death certification practices, we should have method of assessment of the quality death certification. This CoD Quality assessment tool helps to identify seven types of common errors in death certification and the tool has its own analytical capacity to generate statistical reports on quality of cause of death assessments.

The Global Digital Health Index

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The Global Digital Health Index

The Global Digital Health Index (GDHI) and maturity model is geared towards promoting the effective use of digital health to accelerate the achievement of SDG3 and its focus on Universal Health Coverage. It is an interactive digital resource that enables countries to assess their maturity in digital health and benchmark themselves against other countries. Designed using the WHO/ITU eHealth Strategy Toolkit, GDHI empowers health ministries, funders, policymakers, and industry players with data to make informed strategic decisions and investments in the enablers of digital health to build sustainable digital health solutions at scale.

Thai Medicines Terminology (TMT): Ontology based medicinal product coding standard

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Thai Medicines Terminology (TMT): Ontology based medicinal product coding standard


TMT is designed to solve interoperability challenges, promotes health information exchange (HIE) and the secondary-use of pharmacy-related information in health by providing standardized terms and codes that describe all medicinal and pharmaceutical products in Thailand healthcare services. TMT is a national electronic healthcare transaction data standard. TMT has been using nation -wide for identification of drugs in health insurance claim and electronic governmental procurement (eGP) information systems.

Indigenous Telemedicine through internet and deployment in rural areas

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Indigenous Telemedicine through internet and deployment in rural areas

If an ailment is treated early through a qualified doctor in a better way through an improved telemedicine system with integral diagnostic devices, this can save many patients from later complications, even death or disabilities. ‘A stitch in time saves nine’ is the slogan of our indigenous telemedicine technology, targeting primary and secondary healthcare in rural areas of low resource countries where there are no doctors. Besides, this will also reduce misuse of steroids and antibiotics, the latter causing a global scare. We are not patenting our innovations and would disseminate technology to qualified people in all low resource countries of the world so that they can provide such affordable and sustainable healthcare at low cost.

HealthNetBuy

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HealthNetBuy

Revolutionising the pharmaceuticals industry, Healthnetbuy is an innovative digital healthcare platform which offers consumers the ability to order medication via our website and mobile application and other products with the facility of doorstep delivery. We also carry a wide range of (OTC) over the counter products such as medical devices, mother and baby care, skin care, nutritional supplements which we

Still in its infancy, the company is growing exponentially, with patients realising the potential and enjoying the convenience of having their meds and OTC products delivered to their doorstep. Healthnetbuy is compliant with regulatory guidelines set out by the NMRA (National Medicines Regulatory Authority of Sri Lanka)

Swasthya Pahal (Health for All)

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Swasthya Pahal (Health for All)


It is an interactive, internet and standalone enabled, multi-lingual, decision support tool aimed to address the rising, global burden of metabolic syndrome through screening, monitoring and promoting self-management across diverse community settings among people with low literacy.

SenzMate Polar | We care about your Pills

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SenzMate Polar | We care about your Pills

SenzMate Polar is an IoT solution designed to deliver the best environmental monitoring and compliance reporting for the healthcare industry. Our wireless temperature monitoring system is very cost-effective. It is designed to monitor controlled environments where sensitive vaccines, medications, and other pharmaceuticals are stored. The solution alleviates difficulties inherent in manually monitoring multiple storage environments in multiple locations while automatically maintaining complete regulatory compliance.

SenzMate Polar provides a complete tractability of a vacancy lifecycle. From the storage to the fleet, it provides an accurate sensor-based environment information like Temperature, Humidity, and GPS location while transportation. We deliver immediate SLMA-compliant electronic documentation. SenzMate Polar automatically captures all the documentation required for audit support, The necessary reports can then be generated with our OneClick audit support functionality.

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