MEDx eHealthCenter BV

The Digital Hospital for Emerging Countries

We are focused on improving the quality of healthcare in emerging economies (primarily in Africa). We are not doing that by building brick and mortar hospitals but by offering a ‘digital hospital’. In other words, we have created a digital infrastructure that will vastly improve the quality of healthcare in a country like South Africa, where we introduced our first solution. Our focus is the affluent part of society, a market that is overlooked in delivering accessible quality healthcare. Why it is such a great solution : With our solution, care providers can offer services (Ranging from self care to specialist care) with online patient records, appointments, tele consults, and anamnesis forms but also a payment infra structure. Health consumers (aka patients) can access all these services with nothing more than a browser. At this moment we have clients in South Africa, Guinea and some other countries. Demo / What you are showing here : https://www.wecashup.cloud/techcrunch-pres/test.html Availability and price-point : Our solution can be customised to support country specific rules or languages. We are ready to offer universal health care services to under cared countries. Key MEDx.Care Principles : We are not a charity, we are a for profit organisation with a mission: to improve healthcare in emerging economies Privacy is a design principle. Patient data is one of the most sensitive types without privacy / security the system will not function properly. Our business model is built around a 10% transaction fee on any paid service in the platform and flat fee for special projects. The latter because health insurance is virtually unknown (over there/ in emerging economies), people pay cash. It is not uncommon that relatives pay for treatment of family members. Technology level breakdown : Our digital hospital is offered online to both healthcare providers and their customers We have a SaaS solution in the cloud that allows both healthcare providers and their customers to use it with installing local software, a browser is enough Our SaaS solution is hosted on [cloud provider] with state of the art security that will ensure privacy of these confidential records. MEDx eHealthCenter wishes to impact the quality of life of 20 million people in emerging markets over the next five to ten years by launching an innovative set of seven Care Services for the benefit of people, care providers, governments and healthcare ecosystem of each country. Through digital hospital innovation, MEDx eHealthCenter brings healthcare resources in every emerging market together in an effective and efficient way. This will directly lead to healthier people and communities, benefiting from the right diagnosis, treatment and follow-up, which in turn contributes to a better quality of life and sustainable economic growth. Frustrations and drivers Healthcare in emerging markets is like e-commerce. Technology is an enabler for healthcare. Emerging markets lack streamlined healthcare processes. Emerging markets have a big appetite to do things better and more securely in terms of everyday life. Sustainable development goal 3.8 MEDx eHealthCenter focuses on Sustainable Development Goal 3.8: to achieve universal health coverage (UHC), including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health care services, and access to safe, effective, quality, and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all. MEDx eHealthCenter was founded in Veldhoven, The Netherlands in November 2015 by two sisters from Cameroon, Patricia and Letitia Monthe, and is based in the Máxima Medical Center (MMC Innovation Center, for short). At the age of 10, Letitia became very ill and she was taken to a M.D. who wrongly diagnosed her. She took the wrong medication and almost passed them. A neighbouring nurse found out what went wrong and saved Letitia-s life. In 2003 Patricia moved to The Netherlands to study Business Administration (B.A. at International Business and Management Studies (IBMS) of the Fontys University and MBA at the University of Roehampton), while Letitia went to the United Kingdom in 2007 to study Advertising (Bachelor’s degree) and moved to The Netherlands in 2010 to study Organisational Culture and Structure (Master’s). Patricia and Letitia also followed an executive programme a pioneering professional development programme for senior managers in the fields of healthcare services called Innovating Health for Tomorrow at INSEAD.