Today Kenyan-based AfyaRekod launched the fully automated Universal Patient Portal – a block-chain driven technology that will transform the face of patient care across Africa and the World.
Through a secure central platform (Rekod.com) patients and
the medical professionals treating them will have real-time access to their
health data and medical history not only ensuring effective ongoing medical
management, but critical, timely information in an emergency.
The brain-child of CEO John Kamara, AfyaRekod was founded in
2019 as an Adanian Lab start-up with seed funding from Mac Venture Capital and
Next Chymia. Kamara saw first-hand how the lack of medical records and static
data could lead to poor medical management when a friend died having received
the wrong medical intervention in an emergency.
Kamara built an AI platform that would track health data, aimed at
bridging the gap between health care and treatment, anywhere, anytime for
patients, medical professionals, providers and organisations.
Medical records are a
vital tool in managing health, notifying healthcare professionals of
medications, chronic illness, past problems and procedures and ultimately
allowing them to determine the most accurate course of treatment. Misdiagnosis
is serious and can lead to a delay in treatment of the real condition. An IOM
report released in 2015 indicated that around 12 million instances of patient
misdiagnosis occur annually in the USA, a country with a well-developed healthcare
sector. Misdiagnosis is preventable, but only if health records are accurate,
and mobile.
“We identified the capture and storage of accurate data
across every possible level of infrastructure as a core problem. Bringing real
time access to data was the solution. Our tool now allows patients to create a
portal with all their health data and most importantly gives patients sovereign
rights of ownership of their data. The patient logs in and sees all the
information from the hospital. They don’t have to ask the hospital or beg for
information. It’s their right to have access to it”, said Kamara.
The pandemic has pressed the fast-forward button, bringing
an urgency into health data accessibility and analytics. This is a global
problem that has been successfully addressed by a patient-centred health care
innovation such as AfyaRekod.
The subscription-driven Universal Patient Portal is a
blockchain-driven, consolidated and mobile data health passport, that allows
patients consistent access to their health-records, as well as access to a
marketplace of various health services within the ecosystem in real-time.
Over and above patients securely managing their health
records, including prescriptions and hospital visit summaries, the AfyaRekod
Universal Patient Portal offers a secure decentralised, multilingual and
intelligent telehealth solution, health resources, symptom trackers, reminders
and notifications, as well as the mobility of the record across multiple
channels and devices. Though any patient
can use these tools, it is especially useful for patients with chronic illness,
parents, pregnant women, and patients with hereditary diseases.
The AfyaRekod
platform extends to include doctors, offering a digital clinic with a B2B
platform, tele-pharmacy tool and e-prescription platform. For providers, the platform has multiple
functionalities such as hospital management, patient management, knowledge
management and inventory management, as well as an AI driven reporting tool,
that allows organisations to make strategic decisions, predications and early
identification using data analytics. NGO's and other related organizations can
register and manage their target groups on the platform.
AfyaRekod is Part of the NVIDIA AI program via AICE Africa
and has over 150,000 users in Kenya alone and is launching in Nigeria, SA and
Zambia in July. AfyaRekod is accessed via an app (android and iOS) and web
portal via rekod.com
AfyaRekod’s key partnerships include The Association of
Sisterhoods of Kenya (AOSK), Healthy Mind Foundation(Nigeria), Alchemy (South
Africa), AURA (South Africa), GE Healthcare, Telkom, The Africa Block-Chain
Center, The AI Center of Excellence,
Adanian Labs, and Lishe Living among others.
Currently in their B2B product, AfyaRekod has onboarded over
50 hospitals.
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