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Solution Overview

Solution Name

Med-Guanxi

One-line solution summary.

Med-Guanxi is a health social community which is a separate social media of it own with certain advance feature, her members are meant to be health professionals and patients only.

What is your solution?

My solution is a health social media, prior to the two major pandemics that has occurred for the past decade if there was an invention in which people can use to interact with doctors, nurses , pharmacist and other health professional across the world on the guild lines of prevention and treatment and education of the patients perhaps there could have been more preventable to death. Our invention merges our social life and health together. So here is the description of how the social media looks like , on acquiring the Med-Guanxi app you would be given an option of creating an account which can create as either a health professional , student health professional or as a patient. Under the health professional one would be required to select what type or armlets of the health professional they belong. The app is designed as an all encompassing health platform where even e-commerce of health products, machines and devices can be sold.

The social media is built to contain several educative videos , books , dictionaries and educative materials .

What specific problem are you trying to solve?

1) Patients and health professional education on disease state both on prevention treatment and management.

2)Patients adherence to therapy and quick guidance on how therapy should be followed in case of mistakes.

3)Education of both health professionals and patients on all areas of interest in the health profession except for those restricted to the health professionals.

4) Creation of mentorship platform to both student health professional and health professionals across the globe.

Who does your solution serve? In what ways will the solution impact their lives?

This solution targets the every human and animal living in the planet but sees the whole as comprising of just two sets of people which are the health professional(health care givers) and patients(health care recipients)

.The health care recipients are either healthy or sick .

Our target markets remains those who are interested in improving their health status and health professionals who wishes to improve and learn better and also interact with fellow health care givers. Never have there been a time in point in which a platform of this kind which grants access such measure of Connectivity between fellow health professionals and patients and such platforms barely grant access for patients to interact more socially with their care giver.

What steps have you taken to understand the needs of the population you want to serve?

Though we haven't acquired a website and an app yet we have built a community of health professionals on WhatsApp and Facebook in which once in awhile we go out to educate the Masses.

Which aspects of the Challenge does your solution most closely address?

Improving healthcare access and health outcomes; and reducing and ultimately eliminating health disparities (Health)

Our solution's stage of development:

Prototype: A venture or organization building and testing its product, service, or business model

Explain why you selected this stage of development for your solution—in other words, what have you accomplished to date?

I selected this stage because we already have a team that has already started executing this idea I had conceived, and we have being growing from one stage to the other slowly.

Where our solution team is headquartered or located:

Lagos, Nigeria

Team Lead:

I am the lead , my name is Godswill Etim .