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We help

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We help webadmin Wed, 09/23/2020 - 12:22

An interactive voice response system platform that will help women of childbearing age easily access family planning services by describing to them the benefits and likely costs of the chosen contraceptives; using their preferred language while linking them to the nearest health facility.

Introduction

We Help’s interactive voice response system was designed to help adolescents aged 15-19 and the youth aged 18-35 who want to get the right information on contraceptives in their preferred languages by providing to them confidential and real time information through a toll free number and instilling into them the rightful information on contraceptives and directing them to the nearest equipped health facility.

The idea is leveraging existing interactive voice response system to avail the rightful information in different preferred languages and directions to the nearest equipped health facility in order to eliminate the stigma that has greatly reduced the use of contraceptives in Uganda.

Adolescents and youth fear talking about contraception because sex is secret and most people do not want to talk about it. Currently, they’re getting information directly from the health personnel, but if we offer confidentiality and real-time information in their preferred language, we’ll observe better expression of concerns on contraceptives. The We Help Team has designed an IVR system platform to be used by adolescents and youth to access family planning services.

Progress and Results

Experiments have been focused on further improving the IVR prototype with intent on testing the user experience to determine whether the target beneficiaries are comfortable and able to use the service on their own. The experiment also revealed that translation into local languages requires more work.

Needs Assessment: The conducted a discovery on whether young adolescents aged 15-19 can easily access phones to use our interactive voice response system. They wanted to find out if the adolescent and youth are comfortable talking to a machine rather than getting the information from the community or health personnel. They learnt that some adolescents can not access phones because they are at school and phones are not allowed; most times calls are forwarded but you are not attended to and most youth fear expressing themselves in public.
Youth working through the IVR workflow on their own. This experiment was to discover the ability of the end-user to easily navigate the provided mobile number to access information on contraceptives & also the effectiveness of the call forwarding option in the IVR system platform in relation to access of information on contraceptives:
Testing the experience of adolescents and youths accessing our IVR system on a toll-free number.

Challenges and Lessons Learnt

Feature vs smartphone usage- Most young people have more feature phones than smartphones which affected how participants interact with the application.

Translation challenges- Possible partnerships with the ministry of health would solve the translation challenge because the Ministry of Health does translations of health related messages into local languages

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Steamline

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Steamline webadmin Wed, 09/23/2020 - 11:28

An e-health platform that empowers clinicians to take care of their patients efficiently by providing them with the right information at the right time, patient safety prompts and resources to improve the quality of health care administered, hence saving lives.

Introduction

Streamline is an e-health platform that enables clinicians in resource poor settings to deliver health care efficiently by providing key patient safety prompts across the entire patient journey.

Stre@mline follows the patient journey incorporating demographics, triage, consultation, patient safety, investigation ordering and results, prescriptions, stock control of medicines, insurance, finances and with the ability to generate statistical data needed for monthly government Health Management Information System reports (HMIS), graphical trend data, etc.

Stre@mline is tailored to the specific context and needs of low-resource hospitals, has local technical support available, and is economically sustainable. We maintain a patient-centered, integrated approach, focusing on collecting key information needed by clinician in a busy clinical setting rather than extensive details on all patients.

Progress and Results

More than 250,000 patients, 465,000 patient visits have been registered on Stre@mline in 12 hospitals in Uganda. More than 600 clinicians and administrative staff use Stre@mline daily.

100% of children attending OPD care receive triage assessment helping to identify promptly the patients who need priority care

100% of patients undergo health screening, key to spotting any future health conditions in time.

100% Prospective audit of prescribing errors to allow targeted training for staff

Accurate real time data and clinical information

Guidance for correct management of patients available 24 hours a day

Challenges and Lessons Learnt

Implementing Stre@mline in hospitals is a change management process. Some clinicians do not have the computer literacy and skills to use digital tools. Sometimes, there is resistance to change. We collaborate with local hospitals to run a digital literacy program at their hospitals and work with hospital administration to emphasize the importance of Stre@mline and drive digital adoption.

Hospitals lack infrastructure eg. computers, Local Area Network (LAN) to use Stre@mline. We have set up flexible installment plans to enable hospitals acquire the infrastructure needed.

Implementing e-health platforms is an uphill task that requires a wholistic approach to all the challenges that hospitals face. A multidisciplinary team is important to make this happen.

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DigiHealth

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DigiHealth webadmin Tue, 09/22/2020 - 21:49

A mobile app and web-based platform that digitizes data management for health workers that conduct community health camps.

Introduction

DigiHealth Mobile is a mobile application and web based platform that digitizes the process of data collection for health workers that conduct community health camps. We are addressing the challenge of poor data management among development organisations in health using an improved low-cost set of digital tools focused on improving data collection, analysis and visualization in remote areas in order to drive better decision making.

With the intervention of DigiHealth Mobile, the community health workers simply carry a smart phone or tablet instead of the large book and use these to record the patient data during the health camps. During this process, they are also able to access patient histories and also easily do referrals while in the field at the click of a button. This information is then sent to a dashboard where reports are generated and the information displayed in various charts as required by the health facility. The dashboard also displays aggregated patient data in form of statistics which can be used to make projection and plan for upcoming health camps. We built the app to function in the field without internet access since most of these health camps are carried out in remote areas with limited access to the internet.

Progress and Results

We came up with the idea of DigiHealth after seeing first hand how front-line health care providers were struggling to collect and mange patient data whenever they went out to offer health services to the most vulnerable in our communities.

With the seed fundig received from UNFPA through Outbox, we were able to register a company, conduct research, develop and test an MVP. We conducted users experience testing and training in Mengo Hospital and 4 health facilities in Bushenyi managed by Bushenyi Integrated Rural Development Fund.

Since then we have been able to train more healthcare providers and conduct further user experience tests to stream line our system to their needs. These training sessions were done in Mayanja Memorial hospital and Galilee Community Hospital in Masanafu. These facilities are currently using the platform on trial basis as we finalize partnership talks. We have also developed a hospital management system for Malaika Clinics in Nigeria (http://clinics.malaikahgroup.com/auth/login).

Challenges and Lessons Learnt

The biggest lesson learnt so far has been that health care providers, no matter how far they are in the villages, are willing to learn and adopt technology based solutions to ease their work. We have also learnt that innovation is not a one time process, we need to keep evolving the system to fit he changing needs of our target customers.

Challenges: some facilities lack the necessary hardware to adopt the solution like computers, tablets etc. Getting the foot through the door for a start-up company is hard in some of the facilities.

If you would like to know more about Digihealth Mobile, check out the resources below:

Website: www.digihealth.ug

Documentation: http://hmis.infoclan.co/
This fact sheet was developed, with thanks, by:

Jacqueline Mutumba
Team Lead
DigiHealth Limited
Tel. +256794631450
Email. jacquem101@gmail.com

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TEHECA

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TEHECA webadmin Tue, 09/22/2020 - 21:27

A mobile app that connects new and expectant mothers to nurses for in home postpartum checkups and support.

Introduction

Teheca seeks to reduce the high infant and maternal mortality rate among new and expectant mothers through increasing uptake of postnatal among new mothers.

We connect mothers to nurses for personalised in home postnatal checkups and support through availing useful maternal health information, products and services so as to reduce high mortality rates of mothers and newborns in developing countries.

We believe that increasing uptake of postnatal care services will allow for timely identification and referral of life threatening complications that arise in new mothers after discharge.

Over 80% of postnatal care happens outside the walls of the hospital, hence the need to move postnatal care services closer to mothers and outside the walls of the hospital. Postnatal care should be personalised and mother centered because each birth is unique and special.

Progress and Results 2017 - 2018:

Graduated from Up Accelerate program
Development and launch of Teheca app MVP
Developed and launched Teheca Prepared mama bag, an improved mama kit version tailored to youthful and millenial pares.
Onboarded first 20 nurses and 20 community health workers.
Completed Up Accelerate, MasterCard Innovation express and were selected for Google Launchpad Africa for solving one of Africa's biggest challenge.

2018 - Todate:

Graduated from Google LaunchPad 2018.
Launched In app forum for mothers and nurses Q&A forum
Won Seedstars Kampala, and selected among top 10 startups in Africa.
120 nurses recruited and onboarded.
40, 000 mothers impacted through our healthcare service, maternal health information and products.
500 mama kits to supplied/sold mothers in Uganda & Kenya.
10,000, 000/= Ugx paid out to nurses
32,000,000/= Ugx in revenue made through Teheca services collected Currently fundraising for a seed fund of $200,000. (Safe/Convertible Note)

Challenges and Lessons Learnt

Stabilizing production of mama kits for mass market.
Customer acquisition and retention over long period.
Closing a round of fundraising to help accelerate growth and service coverage.

Lessons.

Demand for personalised care services.
Market opportunity in on Demand service delivery
Need of alternative health care service delivery

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DRUGDASH

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DRUGDASH webadmin Tue, 09/22/2020 - 14:50

A web and mobile application that enables District Health Officers at the lower administrative levels to see and understand real-time information/data on the stock status of health care commodities and supplies between various health facilities so that they can make accurate and timely decisions on how to redistribute stock, leading to limited or no wastage and stock-outs thus increasing the availability of these commodities and supplies in the healthcare system.

Introduction

DrugDash is a web and mobile application that enables District Health Officers at the lower administrative levels to see and understand real-time information/data on the stock status of health care commodities and supplies between various health facilities so that they can make accurate and timely decisions on how to redistribute stock, leading to limited or no wastage and stock-outs thus increasing the availability of these commodities and supplies in the healthcare system.

DrugDash is focused on enabling local health system health workers, in this case, a District Health Office to make timely decisions on redistribution by enabling them to use data at the point of generation (in this case a Service delivery point). DrugDash is not a supply chain ordering system, it is a decision support system. Unlike other systems, we focus on driving decisions on redistribution at the service delivery points -- not after reporting to the National health system level.

Progress and Results

In the initial pilot in early 2018, we were able to deploy in 9 facilities and we worked with 30 health workers. We kept track of 35 essential medicines and supplies and we had an average reporting rate of 3 times a month per facility.

We have since then deployed a functional digital prototype of DrugDash in twenty-five (25) public health facilities in Eastern Uganda. This includes eight (8) in Kween district, six (6) facilities in Bukedea district and eleven (11) facilities in Bulambuli district with a collective population of up-to 480,000 people of which 70% were health centre IIIs and 30% health centre VIs. This deployment allowed us to track up-to twelve (12) Family planning commodities in partnership with Ministry of Health, UNFPA and Outbox

We are working to deploy in two more districts in Northern Uganda.

Challenges and Lessons Learnt

We have learnt that East Africa's health system is largely driven by open source tools. We intend to focus more on open sourcing our product and leveraging customisations as a key revenue driver compared to recurring revenues. For the minimal recurring revenues, we shall scale out gradually and as such learn more about acceptable price points.

More about DrugDash

If you would like to know more about DrugDash, check out the resources below or contact:
Website: www.drugdash.org. This fact sheet was developed, with thanks, by:

Mr. Solomon Kahuma
Co-founder
DrugDash
Tel. +256778841383/+256794013200 Email. skahuma@gmail.com

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