Edpio Extra Life.

Provision of efficient healthcare services through the use of conventional and new technological approach (use of virtual services, artificial intelligence medical assistant for both doctors and patients, robotic medical drones and nearby healthcare volunteers.

And also to make this services affordable through our medical finance plan which is flexible and enables the poor to pay their medical bills and enjoy quality healthcare services (that is, our healthcare savings account and insurance).

Lack of rapid response to care of patients, especially in a time of emergency.

Overcrowded hospitals and healthcare centers leads to poor care treatment of patients.

Inability to quickly access patient's medical history (data reports) worsen the casa of patient's health.

Inability of poor patients to be able to pay their medical bills and enjoy quality services. 

The healthcare system in Nigeria is worse and bad across Africa. The majority of the population (about 95%) which are under the categories of low and middle income are being deprived of quality healthcare services due to a lot of reasons, some already highlighted. Our major beneficiaries are children and women and rural communities where healthcare services are more critical, we would be providing services to the low and middle income earners (a population of about 180 million Nigerians).

We are deploying the social insurance scheme as to provision of healthcare services for the poor citizens of Nigeria and other African communities using our unique hybrid approach, this, we believe is the same goal of West Africa Prize challenge.

Our competitors are Helium Health and mPharma but the first focuses on only digital medical record keeping while the second focuses on only making drugs available.

Neither of these two are concerned about affordable healthcare for poor masses, while their efforts can be seen in privates hospitals and focus on one aspect, it does not guarantee efficiency.

We are at advantage over the two competitors because unlike Helium Health, we are not only working with hospitals but bringing all patients (citizens) to our virtual platform where they have access to all healthcare institutions and also ensure that they can afford their medical bills.

We do not leave hospitals with all the task but also help both parties (patients and healthcare institutions) with artificial intelligence assistants, just to mention a few advantages over our competitors.

1. Through our platform, patients gets to find the healthcare center closest to them (in case where that are in a new environment), they can relate to this as Google map

2. Patients have their medical reports history saved on our secure database which can be flexibly accessed anywhere and can grant a hospital access to this data. Also Patients have access to a personal artificial intelligence medical assistant to help where there is no doctor and help doctors quickly analyze patient's health status, and can be related to mobile AI assistants like Siri, Alexia and Google Assistant.

3. We offer rapid response services in case of emergency using robotic medical drones, our network of nearby healthcare volunteers and virtual doctor presence on the spot of incidence or accident or other emergencies.

4. Healthcare institutions can quickly track records of patients, attend to them on time and pharmacy and other health institutions get to verify patients health records before administering drugs.

1. Over crowded hospitals are major challenges towards proper medical care towards patients, not all cases needs to get to the hospital and we would introduce that change through virtual hospitals.

2. Lack of flexible record keeping results to high death or complication rate, we would introduce a secure and flexible platform where patient's medical history can be access anywhere and further assistance with artificial intelligence to analyze the patient's past and present health status.

3. Lack of rapid response as to emergency, through the use of smart medical drones and nearby healthcare volunteers, we would render our services within a few minutes of an accident or incidence.

4. High medical bills, or unaffordable healthcare would be managed by systematic and flexible approach whereby patients can easily cover such bills through a medical savings account or insurance.

Efficient and affordable healthcare should be affordable for all irrespective of social status, healthcare at some level should also be subsidized by the government in instances where such services are only available in private hospitals and these we believe is a social and public concern, given the situation of healthcare in Nigeria and across African communities.

By partnering with the Federal and States governments, we would be able to integrate our system into all primary healthcare and other healthcare institutions. Bringing every citizens / patients on our platform would enhance effective, affordable and fast responsive healthcare services.

Just like every social media platform which the society revolves around, we are very user friendly in terms of AI medical assistance, responsive, human and behavioral interactive platform (for both patients and healthcare institutions), flexible medical finance plan as to normal bank savings account and real life and real time responsiveness to accident and other medical emergencies.

We are operating on existing technologies which have not been introduced to the healthcare system but widely used as daily routine assistance.

Artificial intelligence assistants are common on mobile phones like Google assistant on Android, Siri on iPhone and Alexia on Amazon ,.

But we are introducing our medical AI assistant in a form of smart band (like sport tracking wrist band); this would help the patients where there is no doctor and help us remotely track the health status of a patient. 

We use smart medical drones in emergencies such as cardiovascular illnesses where a patients chance of survival are within 5 minutes and with our network of nearby healthcare volunteers, such an emergency can be quickly contained

Our platform (website and mobile application) is human and behaviorally responsive to assist users on how best to navigate and optimize our services on our platform. 

For area with low connectivity, we would be partnering with the government and telecommunication companies who provide network services to ensure that these areas are connected to the internet and have access to our services. Our AI medical assistant would be efficient as effective even in the areas of low internet connection.

In the first year of operation, we would have a minimum of 100, 000 patients (users) and 1,000 healthcare institutions (hospitals, clinics, pharmacy amongst others).

By our fifth year of operation we plan to have a minimum of 10 million active user/patients and 200,000 healthcare institutions across West Africa.

For our first year in operation, our services would help patients find healthcare institutions closest to them, provide a secure online database where patients medical history would be saved and flexibly accessible and enjoy virtual healthcare services.

Our AI medical personal assistant would be available for both patients and doctors (healthcare institutions) and also our medical finance plan.

By our fifth year of operation, our medical rapid response system would be fully operational with the assistance of smart medical drones, augmented and virtual reality assistance in case of delicate medical operations where specialized doctors are not on site and a flexible medical system of both conventional , alternative and traditional medicine.

In our first year of operation, our likely barrier would be poor internet connection and receptiveness by healthcare institutions.

By the fifth year in operation, our likely challenge could be funding to cover infrastructural cost.

Firstly, we would be partnering with telecommunication companies who provide network services to ensure that these areas  (rural areas) are connected to the internet.

Secondly, we would sensitize healthcare institutions, making them see the huge benefits they have to enjoy using our services and by working with public (government) primary healthcare centers, we would easily gain public acceptance.

As regards funding for future sustainability, effective delivery of our services and necessary infrastructures, we would be partnering with the government both at States and Federal level to acquire what we call the "healthcare subsidy" for patients/citizens (so they can enjoy affordable healthcare services in both public and private healthcare institutions). Also to be able to receive grants to help us get the needed infrastructures and facilities.

Currently we are five (5) at this period of research and ideation.

We are a team of curious and innovative individuals who question the status quo of things and believe we can change the world.

We are from different educational background (Pure and Applied Physics, Nutrition, Basic Medical Science, Economics, Laboratory Technology) and have experiences as patients, staffs of healthcare institutions and academicians.

We are risk managers and committed to the course of humanitarian services.

We are currently not in partnership with any organization.

We would generate revenues through our different subscription plans (Regular, Classic and Premium) where patients/users enjoy a varieties of services.

We would also generate revenues from advertisements of products and services from healthcare institutions on our platform and also through commission of transactions made on our platform (between pharmaceutical firms and hospitals and patients).

Also through, personalized healthcare services where we attend to patients directly and also from sales for our smart medical band.

At our initial stage, we seek startup seed capital in form of grant (equity free) and later on, in the long run, we would generate revenues through our services on our platform (which includes commission on transactions, advertising and a variety of subscription plan for both patients and healthcare institutions). 

As to ensure availability and affordability, we would seek grants from both private organizations and  the government.

We have not generated any revenue yet and we are also not generating revenue at the moment.

$250,000

Grant

We would be generating 'steady' revenues by the eighteenth (18th) month of operation.

Legal, insurance and licensing fee

Office Space/Rent

Utility bills

Communication cost

Purchase of operation facilities/Technology

Operational cost

Advertising/Marketing

Salaries.

Winning this prize would help us overcome the barrier of access to startup seed capital (funding), which would further enable us scale and address other limitations which would require us partnering the government and local network providers.

These partners would help us by means of raising funds for our company, legal and regulatory matters (within and outside our country), and with the right network connection to key industry players (in the healthcare system and related industries) and solutions technology (where and how to access firms that produces technological facilities to help us deliver our solutions to our customers).

At the moment, our proposed partners are the government (at Federal and States level) to incorporate our system into public healthcare for quick and easily mass acceptance.

Also, the local network providers to connect rural areas to the internet.