TechEmerge Health East Africa

Helium Health & TMR International Hospital

Ally Pacs & Hallelujah General Hospital

This pilot will use Ally PACS’ medical imaging management solution to better coordinate care and improve radiology workflows.

Vecnacares & Nairobi Women’s Hospital

VecnaCares' iDeliver is a point-of-care application that provides clinical decision support to identify and treat maternal complications in real-time. The easy-to-use solution combined with a triage algorithm, enables healthcare providers to achieve and maintain high-quality maternal care from ante-natal care through labor and post-natal care. The algorithm identifies high-risk patients and prioritizes by severity so providers can focus on the most critical patients earlier. iDeliver also captures complete patient information, streamlining data reporting processes and informing quality of care improvement efforts. IN this pilot, Nairobi Women’s Hospital in Kenya will deploy iDeliver to cover a patient’s pregnancy journey from antenatal care through postnatal care. The solution will also address neonatal complications and collect and monitor well baby data. COVID-19 testing/ protocols have also been incorporated.

Tricog & Hallelujah General Hospital

Tricog’s Insta ECG machine provides real-time cardiac diagnosis through its cloud connected ECG service. Tricog extracts physiological data and ECG’s from clinical and personal health devices and securely uploads them to the cloud where AI powered algorithms process the data and a team of cardiologists work in real-time with the algorithm to verify the diagnosis which is then sent back to the remote centre within minutes. The service enables a doctor or a healthcare worker in any remote location to diagnose and initiate treatment for heart disease, thus saving thousands of lives. Hallelujah General Hospital in Ethiopia will pilot the Tricog solution, leveraging AI to do rapid cardiac diagnosis, and linking cardiologists in India with Hallelujah’s doctors.

Tricog & Gertrude’s Children’s Hospital

Tricog’s Insta ECG machine provides real-time cardiac diagnosis through its cloud connected ECG service. Tricog extracts physiological data and ECG’s from clinical and personal health devices and securely uploads them to the cloud where AI powered algorithms process the data and a team of cardiologists work in real-time with the algorithm to verify the diagnosis which is then sent back to the remote centre within minutes. The service enables a doctor or a healthcare worker in any remote location to diagnose and initiate treatment for heart disease, thus saving thousands of lives. Gertrude’s Children’s Hospital in Kenya will work with Tricog to connect pediatric cardiologists in Nairobi with 6 remote clinics in Kenya to screen children. ECG’s will undergo AI analysis, and be sent to Gertrude cardiologists in under 10 min for review and sign off.

THINKMD & Goodlife Pharmacy

THINKMD's clinical decision support technology for healthcare professionals improves adherence to protocols and leads to better health outcomes for patients. The solution puts advanced clinical logic into the hands of any health worker, regardless of their level of training, improving the quality of care. During the pandemic, THINKMD created a screening and educational tool for COVID-19 assessment, which can also capture population health and epidemiology data for disease surveillance and predictive modelling. Goodlife Pharmacy will use THINKMD’s clinical decision support platform in about half of their retail outlets in Kenya, where pharmacy technicians will perform an in-house assessment of an ill child or mother, improving access and quality of care. When needed patients will be referred to Goodlife’s network of physicians.

SwyMed & Mater Misericordiae Hospital

SwyMed's Live Video Telemedicine software solution excels in connectivity challenged geographies and on congested networks. SwyMed’s video platform integrates medical devices, Electronic Health Records, Picture Archive & Communication System and medical applications, providing physicians a detailed evaluation of a patient from a distance. During the pandemic, SwyMed created a COVID-19 Telehealth Rapid Response to identify COVID-19 cases. Mater Misericordiae Hospital in Kenya will pilot SwyMed’s telemedicine solution to increase access to specialist services by connecting specialists at their main hospital to 3 of their satellite clinics and outreach programs.

ProWellness Health Solutions & Jubilee Health Insurance

ProWellness' Balansio, is a mobile, AI-enabled assisted self-care system for individuals with diabetes. Balansio incorporates automated 24/7 nurse-bots and clinical intelligence, and brings services of a diabetes clinic directly to patients’ smart phones. Balansio supports integration of physical and virtual care practices, and creation of new business models. The solution supports remote patient care of at-risk patients during COVID-19. In this pilot, Jubilee Health Insurance in Kenya will work with 1-2 clinics in their network to pilot Balansio with diabetic patients, with an aim to better manage diabetes, reduce patient complications and inpatient admissions.

OUI & Gertrude’s Children’s Hospital

OUI’s Smart Eye Camera (SEC), is a smartphone attachment that can record and evaluate ophthalmological images and videos that can be shared with ophthalmologists for remote diagnosis. SEC can diagnose diseases in the eyelids, conjunctiva, cornea, anterior chamber, iris, crystal lens and anterior vitreous. OUI’s portable slit-lamp can be compared to an existing slit-lamp microscope. In this pilot, Gertrude’s Children’s Hospital in Kenya will leverage OUI’s SEC to connect ophthalmologists in Nairobi to clinical officer in rural areas. This remote-diagnosis model aims to pilot a hub and spoke approach to screen pediatric patients in rural areas, and improve reach, efficiency and quality of pediatric eye diagnosis and medical solutions.

Orbit Health & Arsho Labs

Orbit Health’s cloud-capable state-of-the-art Electronic Medical Records (EMR) platform is user-friendly and highly customizable per the needs of each healthcare provider. The system is capable of seamless interoperability across different provider systems ensuring continuity and allowing change of care. In this pilot, Arsho Labs in Ethiopia will pilot some features of Orbit’s EMR, such as appointment scheduling, lab results dissemination, financial transactions, and lab equipment interface with Arsho’s existing laboratory information management system.

Noor Medical & Access Afya

Noor Medical’s Hybriclave is a hybrid electric-thermal autoclave that can operate either with a PV-battery system, other thermal energy inputs such as cooking gas, or conventional electricity. The Hybriclave enables health facilities with unstable electricity supplies to maintain safe medical equipment sterilization processes even in times of power shortages. Access Afya, operating in Kenya’s informal settlements, will pilot the Hybriclave in 5 of their clinics to test to efficacy and usability of the solution, in particular, the ability to continuing to successfully sterilize medical instruments during power outages.

Neopenda & Ruaraka Uhai Neema Hospital

NeoGuard is a wireless, wearable vital signs monitor that continuously measures pulse rate, blood oxygen saturation, respiratory rate and temperature to enable more responsive and effective management of hospitalized newborns, pediatric and adult patients in resource-constrained health facilities. Up to 15 patients can be monitored via one tablet. In this pilot, Ruaraka Uhai Neema Hospital in Kenya will deploy Neopenda in their newborn unit and pediatric ward to support patients in need of continuous vital sign monitoring. NeoGuards real-time audio and visual alerts will improve Ruaraka’s operational efficiency and speed of action in life-threatening situations.

MphRx & IMG

MphRx's Minerva is an open digital health platform with deep interoperability that enables integration of disparate data across multiple systems to create a unified health record. Patient and physician facing applications facilitate patient engagement & care coordination. The system streamlines clinical and operational workflows, leverages data analytics and AI. During the pandemic, MphRx developed a COVID-19 Triage solution that remotely screens, automatically triages patients and sets up teleconsultations for symptomatic patients, and enables remote patient management. In this pilot, the International Medical Group (IMG) in Uganda will deploy Minerva’s care management, teleconsultation workflow, and online feedback functionalities, among others, to enhance patient engagement and quality of care.

Helium Health & the Medical Hub

Helium Health's electronic medical record/hospital management information system is engineered specifically for emerging markets, operating offline first, ultra-thin, easy to install/use, and has 24/7 support.

Forus Health & Nairobi Women’s Hospital

Forus Health’s non-mydriatic fundus camera and refraction equipment can be installed in primary health centers, diabetic clinics, physician’s office, etc., to detect eye problems and eye diseases early, and enable more efficient management. Minimally trained operators can be taught to use the devices on patients to acquire data, which is uploaded to the cloud and a combination of AI and clinicians determine patient's condition and provide advice to enable early treatment. In this pilot, Nairobi Women’s Hospital in Kenya will deploy Forus’ technology in two of their branches to increase the screening and diagnosis of eye diseases, addressing the scarcity of eye specialists in Kenya.

Flare & Penda Health

Flare’s platform is a cloud and mobile-based 911 technology for emergency response services. It aggregates public and private ambulances onto a single platform, building a nation-wide network for response for less than 1% of the cost of a traditional 911 system. In Kenya, it has reduced response time by over 90%. During an emergency, a patient or hospital dials one number or presses a digital button to access help in seconds. Once rescued, the patient is taken to a facility with the right services & capacity to treat them. In this pilot, Flare’s system will be integrated with Penda Health’s EMR to create a linkage that will increase efficiencies in emergency situations and facilitate more accurate decisions about the right referral hospitals, increasing care coordination and patient outcomes.

Flare & Jubilee Health Insurance

Flare’s platform is a cloud and mobile-based 911 technology for emergency response services. It aggregates public and private ambulances onto a single platform, building a nation-wide network for response for less than 1% of the cost of a traditional 911 system. In Kenya, it has reduced response time by over 90%. During an emergency, a patient or hospital dials one number or presses a digital button to access help in seconds. Once rescued, the patient is taken to a facility with the right services & capacity to treat them. In this pilot, Jubilee Health Insurance will pilot Flare’s services for their employees in Kenya to cover them with unlimited emergency rapid response.

Coeo Labs & Hallelujah General Hospital

Coeo Labs' Saans-Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) is a low-cost, easy to use, neonatal breathing support device, with multiple powering options. The solution maintains respiration and oxygenation in neonates with breathing difficulties by providing positive ventilation or CPAP to keep the lungs open both during transport and in hospital settings. In this pilot, Hallelujah General Hospital in Ethiopia will deploy Saans CPAP devices in their neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and ambulance for transport to improve quality of care for newborns with respiratory distress.

Ultrasound system that connects to a mobile device

Butterfly Network’s Butterfly iQ is a whole-body single-probe ultrasound system that connects to a mobile device. The iQ has a powerful suite of software tools that allow you to store, collaborate, access AI-powered advanced imaging tools and access Butterfly Network’s ultrasound education learning platform. Low-cost, portable and radiation free, iQ provides diagnostic imaging across 13 clinical indications which span the whole body. The iQ offers lung ultrasound to identify pulmonary complications in suspected or confirmed COVID-19 patients and helps risk stratify those for admission/closer observation. Access Afya, a low-cost primary healthcare provider with micro-clinics serving Kenyans living in informal settlements is piloting Butterfly iQ in 8 of their clinics, coupled with Butterfly’s TeleGuidance functionality, to increase access to ultrasound services, improving detection of COVID-19 and supporting antenatal care patients in informal settlements.

Baobab Circle & MTN Uganda

Baobab Circle's Afya Pap is a patient centered platform that leverages AI and behavioral science to improve management and prevention of chronic health conditions such as diabetes and hypertension. The solution provides localized health education and personalized remote monitoring via SMS (for basic cell phone) or an app (for smartphones). Afya Pap enables the most remote person to be monitored via its Ask a Doctor feature, with doctors responding in real-time, or by using the connected glucometers and blood pressure monitors. During the pandemic, Afya Pap is supporting patients at risk by providing personalized health education, remote monitoring, eprescription, COVID-19 symptom triage and tracking and connecting to a doctor. Baobab Circle will work with MTN in Uganda to pilot Afya Pap to support their staff to improve management and prevention of diabetes and hypertension, and to increase staff’s productivity and to reduce insurance costs related to treating chronic diseases.

Baobab Circle & Equity Bank

Baobab Circle's Afya Pap is a patient centered platform that leverages AI and behavioral science to improve management and prevention of chronic health conditions such as diabetes and hypertension. The solution provides localized health education and personalized remote monitoring via SMS (for basic cell phone) or an app (for smartphones). Afya Pap enables the most remote person to be monitored via its Ask a Doctor feature, with doctors responding in real-time, or by using the connected glucometers and blood pressure monitors. During the pandemic, Afya Pap is supporting patients at risk by providing personalized health education, remote monitoring, eprescription, COVID-19 symptom triage and tracking and connecting to a doctor. Baobab Circle will work with Equity Bank in Uganda to pilot Afya Pap to support their staff to improve management and prevention of diabetes and hypertension, and to increase staff’s productivity and to reduce insurance costs related to treating chronic diseases.

Ally Pacs & Nairobi Women’s Hospital

Ally PAC’s technology is a medical imaging management solution enabling tele-radiology, long-term archiving of medial data and unification of multiple imaging sites under one cloud-based umbrella. Images can be viewed on any device anywhere. The solution includes physician and patient portals. AI technology has been incorporated to identify potential COVID-19 cases. In this pilot, Nairobi Women’s Hospital in Kenya will use Ally PACS’ fully digitalized and cloud-enabled solution across their 9 branches to better coordinate care and improve radiology workflows and optimize resources.