Prompt2Act

Leveraging the availability of data to proactively detect, manage, and share information to control the spread of infectious diseases more effectively and efficiently.

Joseph Mulabbi

When pandemics such as Covid-19 emerge, the ability for government to quickly pivot and mobilize to determine the most opportune course of action and identify vulnerable population based on facts rather than speculation is critical. 

Government agencies need to streamline and more effectively manage the services provided to constituents. Issues such as homelessness, behavioral health, and judicial reform are a few areas government agencies are trying to understand and resolve effectively, efficiently, and economically. According to the US Census, over 52 million people received government assistance in 2015. COVID-19 and the current economic environment has added to and exacerbated these issues. 

Already heavily tasked government agencies are now at the precipice of where and how to allocate limited funds. This is a nationwide, if not global, issue impacting everyone receiving government assistance. 

Social issues are all inter-related. Data is at the core of every policy, service, and program provided by agencies. Agency departments need the ability to share data easily and in a timely fashion internally or externally to be effective and understand the complexity and correlations of issues faced by constituents. Without this, when faced with an epidemic or pushed to the limit, staff is forced to act ineffectively and hope things go well. This lack of information results in panic, reactionary overspending, less than adequate assistance, and possibly death. 

Data mismanagement is very dangerous and creates an environment of confusion and chaos.

The target population includes all citizens but particularly those individuals requiring multiple government services, federal and local.  

Prompt2Act helps government agency staff address the needs of individuals requiring services provided or managed by government agencies. This includes disease management, behavioral health, prisons, suicide hotline, and homeless service recipients for example. The system enables the staff to address each individual's unique situation by leveraging evidence-based programs that match the individual’s situation. For example, approving an integrated treatment plan for someone who is not able to be quarantined on their own differently than someone who can. 

For COVID-19-kind of issues requiring the collaboration between medical facilities and government, hospital data can be shared directly using the standardized interoperability data format. This allows for real-time data to be shared with the agency bidirectionally. This ensures decisions for the most efficient use of resources and disease control are made with accurate information.   

For prison disease management, facilities can be leveraged to quarantine inmates based on disease severity and population demographics to control the spread.

Prompt2Act provides an open-source data services that can be accessed by our clients. Nevertheless, our data is shareable securely with a wider audience to allow for external analysis to discover correlations and find pathways to success.  

Prompt2Act 's Community Analytics Portal offers the sharing of certified code, reports, and solutions to be shared and implemented globally. This capability allows for our clients to extend their resources, build upon and reuse others' work, and collaborate to find solutions to control and manage spread of disease. 

We also intend to integrate a free ussd code platform specifically for those with no access to smart phones and internet to be able to easily access credible and accurate information about disease occurrences and other related health services and messages. This will be a free-to-access platform that even the governments’ Ministries of Health an leverage for data collection, disease detection & morning as well as a good platform for dissemination of disease preparedness and response strategies to the general public.

The target population includes all citizens but particularly those individuals requiring multiple government services, federal and local. 

Prompt2Act allows for the collection, integration, management, analysis, and sharing of data in real-time. The technology foundation provides agencies to contextually understand the population impacted by an epidemic such as COVID. The system helps government agency staff address the needs of individuals requiring services provided or managed by government agencies. This includes disease management, behavioral health, prisons, suicide hotline, and homeless service recipients for example. The system enables the staff to address each individual's unique situation by leveraging evidence-based programs that match the individual’s situation. For example, approving an integrated treatment plan for someone who is not able to be quarantined on their own differently than someone who can.   

Input: 

• Government agencies centralize data systems
• Government agencies are able to connect with partners and exchange data
• Government agencies have a platform to collaborate and address problems 

Short term outcomes:

• Map areas of infection with multiple demographic and service overlays to visualize potential correlations 
• Automate critical resource inventory such as beds, testing kits, and ventilators to identify areas of need and surplus locally, nationally, and globally
• Identify areas to reduce cost and reallocate funds
• Identify over-utilized and under-utilized services 
• Identify fraudulent and inaccurate billing 
• Securely share public data real-time with research and community to promote transparency and advance research capabilities
• Create critical, targeted dashboards to monitor areas of concern
• Analyze correlations between services, people, locations, time, and providers to gain greater insight into finding resolutions
• Identify high-utilization individuals that may need alternate recovery or treatment plans 

Medium term outcomes:

• Develop policies based on contextually accurate data for the betterment of the population 
• Share algorithms, methodologies, and reports with other agencies to use or enhance for disease detection and containment
• Develop and implement integrated programs founded on evidence-based decisions
• Monitor Provider performance with the development of Key Performance Indicators and ranking
• Monitoring and analysis of patient progress
• Identifying of risk factors to intervene at earlier points
• Annual budget creation and justification based on actual costs
• Rapid response capability and plan of action development to address pandemics efficiently

Long term outcomes:

• Move to constant improvement government model  
• Determine best possible outcome based on machine learning algorithms
• Smart city integration points
• Improved population health
• Citizen involvement, awareness, and cooperation for disease containment and control
• Partnership between government, research, and private sector for the betterment of the population 
• Success stories of moving from homelessness and unemployed to employed and self-reliant

In one year, we are conservatively projecting the number to be 7 million within the US. 

In 3 years, we are conservatively projecting we will serve 100 million globally with conservative and controlled growth. 

For us to successfully achieve that impact, we shall ensure collaboration and partnership are key indicators. New and old partnerships with both public and private bodies will help us scale our product to new markets and empower communities to guard against infectious disease outbreaks like Covid-19.

Our plan is to infiltrate the African market first before venturing outside Africa. We plan to enter Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, and DR. Congo within one year and be able to explore and partner with South Africa, Burundi, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Ghana, Ethiopia, Libya and some other West African Countries in year 3-5.

Upon successfully taking foot in those areas, will be a good ground for us to leverage and venture into Asian countries and impact millions of people.

Our impact indicators are hinged on the number of public and private partners and collaborators we have on board helping and working with us to achieve our common goal and vision of ensuring we are well prepared to deal with any infectious disease both current and those to come in the future.

Also the rate of effectiveness and accuracy of our system to allow our clients be able to detect, manage, and share information to control the spread of infectious diseases more effectively and efficiently using data will be key to help us determine the impact of our solution. We believe this will lead to both public and private appreciation of our efforts through awards and grants which we shall also base on to still determine and measure our impact.

The number of communities and people who will be able to engage with our free-to-access USSD Code public good mobile platform for credible and accurate health related information and engagements will help us determine how impactful our solution is to the general public.

Prompt2Act's current barriers are financial, technical, the corona virus pandemic and economic environment. 

In order to deal with such barriers, we will be partnering with managed service providers and resellers to penetrate the market. The second strategic direction is to provide online seminars on data management in the government realm. The last strategic direction is to respond to RFPs. We shall continue sourcing for both financial capital and human technical capital where need be.

Ministry of Health

Expert Boda

ArqLite Green

RefuConnect

Prompt2Act is applying to The Trinity Challenge for the following main reasons:

1. Secure funding to provide the platform and solution at cost to organizations who do not have the budget for implementation but have the need. 
2. To reach a wider audience in order to gain support and receive guidance and mentoring
3. To partner with peers in order to have a bigger global impact 

Though our team is highly experienced in the core areas, we are open to guidance, mentoring, and partnerships with those who can assist with marketing and exposure to a larger audience as well as help establish partnerships globally while staying within the legal boundaries for ethical operations.This is why we shall first of seek to leverage the MIT Networks as well as The Trinity Challenge for mentorship and technical advice. We shall also seek partnership with Google, Facebook, Microsoft for both financial support and software development support and mentorship.