Health-E-Net is building solutions at the heart of the digital revolution in global health.
By enabling the capture and use of high-quality data in low-resource settings, Health-E-Net is unlocking a new wave of possibility in global health and beyond.
OUR SOLUTIONS
High-quality digital data, from paper
Why implement complex, expensive, technologies when the data you need can be delivered from paper, by simply taking a picture?
PaperEMR delivers high-quality, digital health data through two simple steps that require minimal training: documenting on paper, and taking a picture.
Our custom-built computer vision technology extracts digital data from paper on any device with a browser and camera.
Telemedicine without Apps
One of the big barriers to the use of telemedicine is the need for patients to download and use apps.
The Gabriel platform allows anyone to engage with remote medical services by sending a simple SMS.
Gabriel uses a clever, simple, and effective combination of SMS and web technology to deliver high-quality health services to patients in the comfort of their homes.
Ultrasound for every pregnancy
SonoMobile delivers ultrasound scans for pregnant women in a primary health centre close to them.
It makes cutting-edge technology of mobile probes work commercially, using the Gabriel telemedicine platform.
SonoMobile makes ultrasound scans, a defining event in any pregnancy, accessible to every woman!
OUR APPROACH
How We Deliver Impact
- Managing CHW Commodities
- App-less Telemedicine
- Quality of Maternal Care
- Point-of-care Ultrasound Scans
- Active Case Finding for TB
- Improving Primary Healthcare
PaperEMR re-imagines how “last-mile” health supply chains can be managed. Health-E-Net, in partnership with InSupply Health, works with >200 community health workers (CHW) in Turkana, one of the most remote and marginalised regions of Kenya.
Read more about the Gates Foundation Grand Challenges project.
Watch the pitch video at WFP’s Global Delivery Programs Innovation Pitch Event
One of the biggest barriers to health tech is the need for end users to download and use apps on their smartphones. This barrier excludes between 40-90% of the population in Sub-Saharan African countries. Health-E-Net’s Gabriel platform enables patients to access remote medical services starting with a simple SMS!
Watch Britam’s video encouraging its members to access remote services.
The WHO’s Safe Childbirth Checklist is a tool designed to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality. The modified checklist for PaperEMR has been used to document >13,000 births in Migori County, Kenya.
Read more in our poster at the Gates Foundation’s Annual Grand Challenges Meeting, 2019.
An ultrasound scan is one of the most memorable events of any pregnancy! However this is not accessible to the majority of women in Africa because the equipment is expensive, and there are few skilled healthcare professionals to use the equipment. The Gabriel telemedicine platform, in combination with modern, mobile probes, is making high-quality, nurse-led, obstetric ultrasound scans a reality for every mother!
Read more about this project funded by the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation, which has delivered >3,000 scans to women living in Nairobi’s slums.
Tuberculosis is one of the major killers globally, disproportionately affecting poor and marginalised communities. Active case finding (ACF) is a key strategy for increasing detection of TB in a population. PaperEMR is helping ACF in the slums of Nairobi by making it easy for pharmacists to screen every client for TB and refer them for testing.
Read more about this Global Fund sponsored initiative.
The paper-to-digital approach underlying PaperEMR has demonstrated improvements in how primary care clinicians manage both infectious and non-communicable diseases. Such improvements are likely to underpin the achievement of health-related SDGs.
Read about how clinical documentation was improved.
Read about how antibiotic prescribing was improved.
