ORS-Health (Health-Tech for marginalized school children)

inclusive health-care technology to monitor and bring equitable health-care for school children in tribal communities.  

1. Even in countries where the conditions for universal health coverage are broadly achieved, inequities persist between different socioeconomic, ethnic and geographic groups.

in south-India certain communities are quite marginalized and are labeled as scheduled casts (SCs) and scheduled Tribes  (STs). they have limited access to social support, less access to education, medical care. till recently they were not even allowed to come to same schools.

fortunately Indian Government opened special schools and hostels for these children. but nearly 90% of these children suffer from one or the other health problems affecting their academic progress.

2. we developed school health software to assess, track and monitor health problems in these children. 

our software  helps medical teams identify, advocate, and solve all health issues at early age through screening, as many children are suffering from multiple health problems like low-weight, anemia, respiratory-tract infections etc.

ORS technology platform enables medical team to outperform in short time and real-time analytics help organizing treatment plans and tackle the disease burden. This helps to prevent most of the health problems, and deficiencies (3Ds) in children. more over our technology helps in decision making and referral system to higher centers and tracks the out-come in real time. 

dashboard was given at multiple levels like local/district health officers, health-commissioners and at ministry levels to access data at the click of a button.

3.  We are committed to eradicate health issues at the early age. Our motivation is to make all children healthy and give them freedom of concentrating on education, sports, and other activities they are interested in.  This is going to impact extremely high on poor and economically weaker children to become healthy. We want to reach-out to  un-reach and bring equitable health-care to scheduled tribes and schedules casts.

for last 2 years we have been serving nearly 500,000 of these marginalized children. its time for us to expand and bring inclusive health-care to more of these communities. 

we are early birds in south India. ORS focuses not on just digitizing health-information, but tracks health of each child.  

we built a real time reporting function (command center), staffed by our tech-team and medical team. if any child gets sick from any school, they will get a call and child's condition gets tracked in real-time including suggestions on referral, where the patient needs to be taken, how long was admitted, what was the discharge plan. this gives complete health security, closing the care-loop.

on-top of this, our solution supports medical screening at regular intervals to identify prevalent health conditions.

ORS is complete end-to-end technology platform. 

Visiting medical team will have Tab-based application to view children's data. team will collect data at source through  work-flow applications and integrate to cloud.clinical information made available in real-time to view as analytics through segregated charts. This helps to understand and quantify information. 

Central-Office schedule treatments immediately after screening to specialized doctors. All doctors are on mobile working environment, and access to screening records, to view information in real time.

planning to expand tech-team to integrate Artificial-intelligence and block-chain (ethers based scoring for schools)

we are looking for significant expansion in the next 12 months.  

we are in advanced negotiations with 3 large organizations/governments to offer our solution to their schools.

so-far we have been doing public private partnerships.  one of the target this year to get in to private schools and private hospitals.

technology team need to expanded to meet the work demands and also capacity building with in the team, specially towards artificial intelligence and  block-chain

in 5 years time we want to emerge as market leaders in school health solution. we believe we have a fair chance to do so. we want to impact at-least 5 million children in 5 years time.

currently we have contract binding us for another 3 years (total-5-years) with the existing 500,000 children. which is extend-able for another 5 years. our pricing is so competitive that our customers will not look else-where, and our quality of work retains our customers.

applications installed in Schools, Anganwadi centers,institutional agencies and clinics for communities to access and information available near the care-taker. 

each child was given an unique identification number to access on web. we are working towards individual user-app.

dash-boards were given for each institution to monitor the health locally along with central office.

we are currently serving 500,000 children through one organization,

with very minimal resources (financial, manpower). all these children are residents of scheduled tribe/cast hostels. medical teams visits schools and does screening, collecting the clinical information through app. those who found to have medical problem, will be referred to nearest clinics, who have access to our application.  our solution helps to assess the prevalence of health problems in school-children and immediate treatment as required. we also help to track child health and preventive care for children with existing morbidity. 

command-center can monitor progress of all schools with convenient dash-boards.

we expect to be serving at-least 1 million children in next 12 months, majority of them are from disadvantaged communities. we monitor almost all common health problems in this children including nutritional deficiencies, ear infection, gum diseases etc.and specific inputs given to schools to treat and prevent these problems. so-far we helped 0.5 million children. some benefits like treating infections are immediately evident and some benefits like nutritional deficiencies are evident after few months.

in 3 years time we want to impact at-least 3 million children.

our team built this solution from scratch and we are well versed in this platform. our technology team leader worked for few multinational companies and has more than a decade experience. our business development executive has been in this field with us since beginning of our journey and quite apt in building market relations. we recently recruited clinical director to improvise our solution from medical front. he joined as a partner and investor. he has both medical and management experience. soon we are looking to build medical screening teams so we can offer one-stop solution both medical and technology solution.

we charge the organization that we hold contract with. we follow modular pricing strategy and  charge a basic rate per child per moth, to keep the pricing competitive. for every additional value added services we charge itemized billing e.g. price for each screening, time tech-team deployed to complete the screening etc.

with half million children generating around $100,000 per year, we are just about breaking even. our business model is lean business model breaking even with just one contract and surely with further contracts we are poised to make profits in this financial year.

SOLVE being a global innovation platform, we are looking for global visibility to expand our services to needy international markets.

more-over serving marginalized communities may not be achievable by government institutes alone, we are looking for non-profit and corporates to support us  reaching more children, who could not be served equitably with existing systems.

we are also looking for technology mentor-ship and technical collaboration with SOLVE.

government institutes do not have enough funds to reach-out most of the needy children. these children live far-away from cities, that medical teams do not receive either financial incentives nor recognition for doing this work.

with SOLVE on board and recognition on international innovative platform, we can bring pride to this work and keep our medical teams motivated to reach the unreachable.

with the help of SOLVE we are hoping to join hands with large organizations both  for-profit and non-profits who are interested in building equitable communities