Hanai - healthcare digital inclusion

Hanai ensures that no woman is left behind in the race for better health outcomes due to poverty, lack of information, and connectivity.  We bring a simple digital app that provides local healthcare information through high impact intervention.  

• Challenge the current scenario of information delivery in an inclusive way

• Become the ultimate reference for validated method to deliver, measure and improve upon information delivery

• Provide a tokenization mechanism

We launched Jiwa Ibu in Malaysia with maternal health, mental health, domestic violence information. We provide local health information scalable globally and also provide a system of incentivisation for adherence. Our cascade model working with grassroot champions is aimed to support 10,000 women by the end of 2020 in Malaysia while we branch out in Africa.   

Healthcare empowerment through inclusion, identity, information is aspirational for women in rural communities across the world. Adherence to vaccination and drug schedules, especially in maternal and newborn healthcare is often waylaid due to the lack of tools to monitor and measure. 

• Every day 830 women die of childbirth.

• Every year 5 million newborns die of causes related to childbirth.

Hanai is a fully transparent marketplace of tools to deliver, improve and measure social impact. Through our digital healthcare app, we solve the problem of reaching out to a maximum of women in need with the added  values of: 

• Providing data that can be fed back to assess efficiency and provide metrics about the impact of SPOs work; and to help authorities design appropriate policies

• Provide transparency to donors & funders and hence improve accountability

• Enabling the technology provided to other areas

We aim to

• Become the ultimate reference for validated method to deliver, measure and improve upon information delivery

• Challenge the current scenario of information delivery in an inclusive way

• Provide practical advice

• Create a platform for SPOs to improve upon their work

• Track the flow of funding through tokenization

Our digital health app is built on the backbone of the blockchain and cloud technologies. A woman with a smartphone can download the app and access all content including doctors directories including services provided opening hours. Educational content on maternal and mental health, domestic violence and the latest on COVID-19. 

Logging in on to the app gives a woman the possibility to create a digital health identity that is unique and safe with the ability to store and track personal health records.

She is able to look at the adherence protocols she should be abiding by and when she does so, receives a token as an incentive. The token can be exchanged for her needs. 

The app carries measurement and data acquisition abilities providing local healthcare providers better clarity on their treatment plans of their community. Especially in catastrophes, healthcare agencies will be able to reach their communities effectively. 

The entire app is available offline, enabling the use of the app even in rural areas with minimal connectivity. We built a grassroots champion cascade model to ensure uptake. 

Hanai works with rural and marginalised women primarily. This includes teenage pregnancies, refugees, tribal communities. We provide them with an empowerment tool. In Borneo we see our women twice a week on video calls as they then go on to influence further numbers of women to download the app and interact with it.

We engaged with the community through extensive field research, focus group discussions. We also engaged and were approved by the Malaysian Ministry of Health and the Ministry for Women, Children and Family Development. 

We keep engaging locally and currently have deployed an improvement phase on the app in Malaysia that we launched in April.

For our work in Burkina Faso, Senegal, Tanzania and Kenya, we just signed MoUs to start field work virtually. This is to hear what the exact gap is and how our technology can work on resolving their needs.

Hanai provides a suite of solutions targeted at mothers. Our core expertise is enabling women to take charge of their and their children's health especially in the first 1000 days of health.

Our  app, Jiwa Ibu provides healthcare information on maternal, mental health and domestic violence as well as COVID-19 information in local tribal languages. We cover the challenge for maternal healthcare as well as pandemic preparedness.

Mental health and domestic violence are covered as well as research shows a woman who is abused goes through mental distress especially in pregnancy. It is the area we plan to excel in. 

Many NGOs operate with donor funds without harnessing their data and acting upon it because of the lack of technology. Many local healthcare operators lack the resources and expertise to reach a wider net of people, especially in rural areas. There are a number of telehealth operators out in the markets we serve but they do not target the rural and marginalised. And are purely targeted to those who can afford to pay for it. A plethora of apps exist in major languages - English, French but rarely taking note of cultural sensitivities, and this ends up being disempowering.

We are innovative because of combining sound technology while working on a bottom up grassroots champion approach. The technology is merely the conductor. Our approach to get each grassroots champion to own the cohort they work with and continue to reach their people with the app.

In addition, working with telcos - the only way we can close the last digital mile is to make sure we partner with telecommunications companies to bring our app closer into rural areas.

Working with telcos also allows for us to provide incentivization via mobile coin. We are at the cusp of ensuring data sovereignty allowing for the women we serve to take charge of their health.

We would like to distribute biodegradable banana fiber sanitary pads! 

Our first app Jiwa Ibu was built as a simple mobile phone app on Ionic. Just to beta test but our personal health identification system is blockchain backed. We also are incorporating AI into symptom checking as well as alerting the closest healthcare providers on possible health emergencies.

The use of the technology is not necessarily novel but we are reliant on it to reach as many women as possible. While each doctor may find it hard to reach every woman spread across rural and difficult terrains, the chances of women owning a phone is high and becoming more of a reality.  

We launched the Hanai Jiwa Ibu app late April with the approval of the Malaysian Health Ministry as well as the Ministry for Women, Family Development. All this happened in the midst of the COVID19 lockdown and we still forged ahead gaining users every week. We stand at about 200 users currently. And continue to work via zoom and whatsapp to disseminate the app. We have worked out the cascade model and have calls with our users once every two weeks.
The app is demonstrated here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be1-Xkf3OmY

And can be downloaded here

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hanai.jiwaibu

We believe Hanai will disrupt how women interact with healthcare. Women will be empowered with information and own their own data which they can choose to economize. Each activity we do is directly linked to gaining more users in a cascade model.

This automatically alleviates the pressure from local healthcare operators, overall socio-economic state. 

We currently serve 200 women and aim to reach 10,000 by the end of 2020 in Malaysia branching to 15million people in Malaysia alone. 

We currently started with 15 people in Burkina Faso (2 weeks into the project) and intend to end up serving up to 65 million people in Africa. 

We intend to have revolutionized the way women take charge of their health, potentially making an income from taking of their own as well as their communities' health. 

This is now rolled out in one country in South East Asia and Africa and we intend to roll out across South East Asia and Africa. We hope to branch into Latin America as well. 

We require technologists and funds. We also need a system to engage with the various ministries of health. And most importantly hiring local on the ground staff for capacity building.

We intend to continue with our current model and work out the business model as we engage in fundraising. 

2 full time, 8 part time. 

We bring 20 years of sound scientific backgrounds, medical communications, engineering, risk and governance.
We bring public-private partnerships expertise as well as the ability to network. 

St Georges University London
University of Nottingham London
Universiti Malaya Malaysia
Womens Association Permatang Pauh, Malaysia
Dayak Tribal Women's Association, Malaysia
Iban Tribal Women's Association, Malaysia
Burkina Faso Incubator, Burkina Faso
Technoport Luxembourg
EUHorizon 2020 Access 2 Europe

The entire business model can be viewed here

We intend to charge a licensing fee to local healthcare providers, eventually development impact bonds and social impact bonds.

We need sound technological partnerships, and guidance.
If my solution is selected, I believe it will draw the attention of many others to partner with us to move this forward. We are at the precipe of something great!

These are the areas we have not hired anyone to help us specifically with. And believe a platform like SOLVE can push us forward.

Any organisation that works in healthtech and also looking at ethical data.

We are already working with the Rohingyan Refugees in Malaysia establishing their personal health identities and giving them the opportunity to carry their identities with them no matter where they go.

We intend to make this a model across all refugee communities across the world. 

We currently are working with Vodafone via Technoport Accelerator to look at how we empower women via mobile phones in Africa. We intend to have placed in every woman's hands the tools to take charge of their health, their families' health and their communities' health. 

We intend to incorporate healthcare workers empowerment tool within the apps we deploy working in collaboration with local midwifery services. We have the Elly Appeal Charity based out of the UK as a partner to deploy this with. 

We intend to establish AI to be a symptom - emergency checker to inform women on when they should definitely be headed to the doctors'.

Right now women wait too long before they head to the doctor's. With AI, they would have a better chance of survival and also a possibility to see where the closest mobile clinic could be. 

We work in partnership - with government, with local NGOS, local Social Purpose Organisations, academia, local women's associations. The entire fabric of our existence is based on our partnerships. 
To exemplify - in Malaysia we conducted focus group discussions on the ground, followed by content production with local heads of hospitals and we eventually got approval from the Health Ministry. We identified local NGOs and donor organisations that work in the area for further partnership.
We believe we stand a good chance to eliminate diseases that can be vaccinated against.