Clinic-OP & Sokoladawa

Clinic OP and SokolaDawa is an integrated healthcare system for doctors, medical laboratories and the general public accessible online across devices.

Clinic-OP is a accessible by any Small and Medium sized Clinics, Medical Laboratories and Pharmacies on a VERY low monthly subscription (USD  5.00 - 25.00) - a sustainable cost aligned to the spending ability of small Africa businesses .

Clinic-OP connects the key players in the healthcare ecosystem facilitates free flow of crucial health related information and  real time pricing of vital healthcare services for the benefit of the public.

This greatly improves transparency in the pricing of healthcare services, pharmaceutical products and better management of health records and patient experience while navigating the corridors of healthcare in the country.

With the Covid-19 pandemic testing for Covid-19 has become crucial in enabling governments to ease movement restrictions and lock-down for their citizens to start return to full productivity. 

Clinic-OP and Sokoladawa forms an infrastructure that enables, the public, employers and employees to request and pay for medical tests from their phones or computers. 

The requests are transmitted to the government approved medical laboratories connected to the system. A qualified lab technician is dispatched to collect samples and the results are transmitted to test owner’s phone via text as soon as the tests results are in. The test contains a link to down load the lab report with test results.

This provides much convenience and minimizes unnecessary disruptions at work and spread of diseases by persons flocking into health facilities to get tested.

Clinic-OP and Sokoladawa provides connected medical laboratories a strategic and competitive advantage as they focus on their core competency without worry of the hassle sourcing for requests for lab tests and transmission of test results.

Clinic-OP and Sokoladawa also generates opportunities by creating jobs for medical laboratory technicians as sample collectors, and support agents who post test requests for people in their communities and remote healthcare centers.

It also creates a business opportunity to security companies connected to the system granting or restricting entry of persons into various places and transportation vessels based on their test results or the lack thereof.

With convenient access and accelerated testing, Clinic-OP and Sokoladawa will tremendously supplement government’s effort in the process of testing efficiently at a large scale and enable the population to get back to full economic productivity.

Additionally Increased transparency in this opaque sector will promote fair pricing and quality service provision to ensure the public gets value for money this critical healthcare service.

1. Empower patients and the public with real-time access to information on the pricing of prescriptions, lab tests and other healthcare services. Increased transparency in this opaque sector will force players to compete on the basis of either fair pricing (cost leadership) or quality service provision (differentiation).

2. Enable small to mid-sized Clinics to manage, capture, organize and store – healthcare records properly avoiding loss of crucial medical information for patients.

3. Enable pharmacies and medical laboratories to compete on a fair playing field by eliminating the advantage of vantage locations with high human traffic.

4. Data to enable pharmaceutical companies monitor drug use patterns in the country and align themselves accordingly.

5. Data to help the government to monitor disease patterns in the country.

Beneficiaries of Clinic-OP and Sokoladawa:

1. Doctors /Clinics &  Medical laboratories 

2. Employers &  Health Maintenance Organizations 

3. Pharmacies & Pharmaceutical Companies 

4. Patients & general Public

Sub-Sahara Africa has about 11% of the world’s people, but it carries 24% of the global disease burden in human and financial costs.

Public healthcare facilities in Kenya are ill-equipped and grapple with a biting staff shortage. Medical equipment is also limited, poorly maintained and often dysfunctional.

Due to the incessant frustration with the public healthcare sector, the dispirited public has shifted to the private sector for healthcare services.

The net effect of this has been a surge in the number of private healthcare facilities in the country as they step-in to fill the void left by the public sector.

The Covid-19 pandemic testing for Covid-19 has become crucial in enabling governments to ease movement restrictions and lock-down for their citizens to start return to full productivity. 

Clinic-OP and Sokoladawa forms an infrastructure that enables, the public, employers and employees to request and pay for medical tests from their phones or computers. 

Clinic-OP also supports access to real time prices of other essential healthcare services such as radiology tests (X-Ray, CT Scan, MRI, UltraSound etc.) and advanced lab tests (complete blood count, basic metabolic panel, lipid panel, enzyme markers etc). 

The focus is on the price of medical lab tests prescription medicine which is often offered at exorbitant prices driven by the addition of huge mark-ups by the numerous players in the supply chain.

Our competitors are other healthcare software providers and pharmacy mobile applications such as My-Dawa, Liva and Tibu App.

However based on implementation strategy and concept of a Connected-Healthcare  we do not have any direct competition. For example none of them have any offerings for medical clinics and laboratories.

1. Microsoft Azure Cloud based software as a service.

2. Microsoft Internet Information Web Server Technology

3. Microsoft SQL Sever Database Technology

4. Open source technologies such as Itextsharp (PDF tools), EppsPlus (Spreadsheet tools)

Our applications and the technologies they utilize  and can be found here:

http://clinic-op.com/

http://m.sokoladawa.com/

http://sokoladawa.com/

Examples of Cloud Based Software as a service (Saas):

1. Salesforce - https://www.salesforce.com/

Salesforce.com, inc. is an American cloud-based software company headquartered in San Francisco, California. It provides customer relationship management service and also sells a complementary suite of enterprise applications focused on customer service, marketing automation, analytics, and application development.

3. Dropbox - https://www.dropbox.com/

4. ZenDesk - https://www.zendesk.com/

1. Empower patients and the public with real-time access to information on the pricing of prescriptions, lab tests and other healthcare services. Increased transparency in this opaque sector will force players to compete on the basis of either fair pricing (cost leadership) or quality service provision (differentiation).

2. Enable small to mid-sized Clinics to manage, capture, organize and store – healthcare records properly avoiding loss of crucial medical information for patients.

3. Enable pharmacies and medical laboratories to compete on a fair playing field by eliminating the advantage of vantage locations with high human traffic.

4. Data to enable pharmaceutical companies monitor drug use patterns in the country and align themselves accordingly.

5. Data to help the government to monitor disease patterns in the country.

Clinic-OP is currently used by 25 medical Clinics, 2 Pharmacies and 2 Medical labs

With an intensive awareness camping and marketing we intend to serve

- 2,500 Small to Medium sized medical Clinics

- 1,000 Pharmacies

- 500 medical Laboratories

and the general adult public of around 25 million people in Kenya with Sokoladawa

1. To have reached a minimum of 1000 clinics, 700 Pharmacies and 300 medical labs in Kenya

2. To have reached a minimum of 1500 clinics, 1000 Pharmacies and 500 medical labs in Nigeria

3. To have expanded and with active customers into other African countries not excluding Uganda, Tanzania and Ethiopia

1. Limited resources in terms of funds to mount an extensive and sustained Marketing campaign for our solution

2. Limited resources in terms of funds to acquire skilled programmers and marketers

3. Limited resources in terms of funds to increase our cloud hosting capacity 

By trying all mean possible to raise the required capital to:

1. Acquire skilled programmers and marketers and to mount an extensive and sustained Marketing campaign for our solution

2. Expand our Cloud hosting capacity for our solutions

1 Person in Software Development

1 Person in Business Development & Marketing

1 Person In Company Administrative duties

1 Part time person for data build up

Total 4 People

1. We have over 15 years experience developing and marketing software solutions to small to medium sized businesses, schools, medical clinics, hotels, traders, etc and addressing challenges that are unique to the African business environment, industries and economies. We very conversant with user attitudes toward business software solutions in our region. 

2. We have a good mix of talent, age-range required to develop and market Clinic-Op and Sokoladawa. Our team has young energetic and motivated individuals who seeking to make a positive impact in their communities and also earn a decent living for themselves in the process. They are completely  invested in the success of this product. We have a provision for ownership of a stake in the company for all team members based on their performance

We have partnered with Pharmacies and medical Laboratories for delivery of medical lab test services and prescription drugs ordered thorough our platform.

We are also working /partnering with our devolved Health Department of our County government of Mombasa Kenya to deploy Clinic-OP and Sokoladawa  infrastructure to safely and conveniently receive,  process and transmit Covid-19 -Test results to essential service providers who must be tested every 14 days. 

We have distinct revenue lines where Clinic-OP has demonstrated a robust case of specific value addition to the entities.

Being a software product the basis of the cost charged is bench-marked from leading tech companies which provide platform as a service.

Revenue Lines:

1. Clinic Access – Monthly Subscription

Patient visit, treatment and payment management System. Analysis and generating reports

2. User Training – Onetime fee During Implementation

Training sessions (Per person) on site or remotely via Skype / Team viewer / Phone

3.  Pharmacy Access - Monthly Subscription

Access to enquiries from Sokoladawa and submitted prescriptions from Doctors

4. Laboratory Access – Monthly Subscription

Access to enquiries from Sokoladawa and submitted Lab Tests from

5. Advertisement Income

Sokoladawa, the eCommerce hub for Clinic-OP will provide a good platform for pharmaceutical companies to expose their product portfolio to the public.

6.  Revenue sharing model for sale of drugs and lab test orders on SokolaDawa with partner pharmacies and medical laboratories.

Sokoladawa feature e-commerce functionality where public can place orders for drugs and various lab tests. Drugs are delivered to the customer upon placement of order or lab technician collects the lab test samples from the patient and the lab report is sent to the patient with the test results

Clinic-OP is essentially creating an integrated healthcare experience for the benefit of both the patient and healthcare providers.

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Our path to financial sustainability is as follows:

1. To sign up a minimum of 1,000 clinics, 700 Pharmacies and 300 medical labs in Kenya

2. To sign up a  minimum of 1,500 clinics, 1,000 Pharmacies and 500 medical labs in Nigeria

3. To expand our active customer base in other African countries not excluding Uganda, Tanzania and Ethiopia

4. To institute a comprehensive business development campaign that will see mass adoption of the product.

This will be achieved as follows:

1. Door to door marketing and selling to Medical Clinics, Medical Laboratories and Pharmacies by hired or outsourced sales and marketing personnel.

2. Online advertising on social media pages and ad campaigns tools such as Facebook and Google ad words  directing visitors to product enquiry or sign up landing pages..

3. Email marketing campaigns directing recipients to product enquiry or sign up landing pages.

4. Workshops and product launch events and onsite signups at discounts and free trials

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5. Printed poster and flyers distributed in medical clinics & healthcare centers

6. Online Sign up and subscription to our platforms via Mobile Money and Credit / Debit card payment gateways

7. Revenue sharing partnerships with Pharmacies and Medical labs  for drug and lab test orders on sokoladawa

To raise funds to:

1. Mount an extensive and sustained Marketing campaign for our solution

2. Acquire skilled programmers and marketers

3. Increase our cloud hosting capacity

We would be happy to get support in networking with established institutions to grows and spread Clinic-OP and Sokoladawa in the African Continent.

1. Cloud service providers

2. Marketing Agencies

3. Technology companies

We have been developing solutions address challenges tat are unique to the African business environment for over 15 years.

We Will use the prize money to hire talent for further development and enhancement of our solutions from user feedback and our deliberations and to fund marketing campaigns and activities.

1. Clinic-OP and Sokoladawa will tremendously supplement government’s effort in the process of testing of Covid-19 efficiently at a large scale and enable the population to get back to full economic productivity.

2. Clinic-OP and Sokoladawa will provide data that can help the government to monitor disease patterns in the country.

1. We qualify because Clinic-OP and Sokoladawa is an effective Infrastructure in the fight against Covid-19 pandemic that enables  safe and convenient procurement of Covid-19 tests and transmission of results on a regular basis to essential service provides and public at large in our country.

2. We qualify based on our the nature of our mission objective which  provide  an easy to use connected healthcare solution i.e. Clinic-OP to ALL small and medium sized medical Clinics In Africa which are currently using manual  disconnected solutions. 

3. We qualify based our patient first approach with Sokoladawa which  empowers patient and public with information on the various healthcare products and services on offer to enable them make cost effective and money saving decisions.