Lafia platform

Current healthcare data practices are fragmented, inefficient, and drive up the cost of delivery, discovery, and risk for healthcare ecosystem stakeholders. Here’s how each stakeholder is affected: 

Stakeholders list:

1. Patients

   1. Primary Patients

   2. Caregivers 

2. Providers 

   1. Hospitals 

   2. Clinics

   3. Dentists

   4. Pharmacies 

3. Commercial and Government

   1. State Govt

   2. Federal Govt

   3. NGOs

4. Health Plans 

   1. Insurers 

   2. HMOs

5. Life Sciences 

   1. Pharmaceutical Companies

   2. Lab companies

   3. Genetic companies 

Overarching problems

1. Interoperability - Platforms today do not allow for easy and automated exchange of data. Everything is siloed. As a result, it's hard to price, deliver efficient healthcare outcomes and impossible to share data in a scalable manner. 

2. Security and Privacy - Data, especially healthcare data today, is built in ways that are inherently vulnerable to data breaches and hacking. 

3. Poor data ecosystem leads to a lack of infrastructure for data-driven interventions/ preventative healthcare opportunities. 

4. Patient Centricity - With fragmented systems - there’s no way for patients to truly own data because it's all over the place. We also don’t have a full picture of the patient. 

Our problems can be even broken down to the customer level as well. 

Patients problems 

1. Poor service delivery - As a result of fragmented data - we don’t see the whole picture of the patient. This can lead to misdiagnosis and poor patient experience. It is impossible to KYP (know your patient) if you only have pieces of the data puzzle missing. 

2. Patients don’t have ownership of their data.  They need a safe, secure, and convenient way to procure their data from hospitals, clinicians, and other stakeholders. They also need to be educated about how to get their data and why. 

3. Pay the brunt of the cost for inefficient healthcare -  Most costs get passed down to patients. As a result, the cost of care is so much more expensive in fragmented healthcare systems and patients end up spending more of their expendable income on health and wellness. 

4. Cheaper ways to improve health - prevention: Inability to provide preventive interventions to improve health by driving patient behavior does not exist. 

 Providers: 

1. Providers lack full data picture of patients: Providers lack a full image of patients and as a result, shoot in the dark when it comes to healthcare interventions 

2. Providers lack the tools to get a comprehensive view of their patients and operations: Without reporting or insights, it's impossible to improve quality/outcomes and provide the best experience for patients. 

3. Increasing cost of care: Due to fragmented costs and process issues like misdiagnosis, recidivism, etc, providers, specifically, hospitals and clinics end up paying more to deliver healthcare interventions to patients. 

4. Lack of connectivity: Providers lack the tools and platforms to speak properly to other parts of the ecosystem. 

Commercial and Government 

1. Lack the ability to enforce and regulate data policies around healthcare. Governments lack the tools and resources to audit, enforce and discuss data policies. 

2. Inability to see the state of healthcare for a population: Governments lack the reporting, insights, capabilities to get a 10k ft to view on healthcare nationally, regionally, and locally.  

3. Inability to enforce quality of care/value-based outcomes on providers: Without additional insights structure - there's the challenge of enforcement when it comes to the future of preventative/value-driven healthcare. 

4. Connectivity:  Due to a fragmented ecosystem - most stakeholders in this segment have to do a lot of work (chasing down different groups) to get a whole picture of what’s going on in the healthcare space for patients. 

Health Plans 

1. Fraud: Due to different types of stakeholders and process inefficiencies, fraud is a significant problem for health plans. 

2. Connectivity:  Due to a fragmented ecosystem - most stakeholders in this segment have to do a lot of work (chasing down different groups) to get a whole picture of what’s going on in the healthcare space for patients. 

3. Facilitating Preventive Care: Health plans have high utilization rates. They are wondering how they can help improve outcomes for patients without them going to the doctor. 

Life Sciences

1. One part of the picture:  The stakeholders need help trying to connect their research to health records. They may have clinical trials information but they don’t have the data records to access the other side of the picture. 

2. Acquiring customers/data: Life sciences companies spend a lot of marketing budget trying to acquire people for clinical trials and studies. 

Current opportunity sizing for healthcare big data for the African market is still being calculated but looking at the global trends - this is a 23 Billion USD opportunity growing at about 16% YoY. There are a couple of interesting tailwinds to be excited about. The burden of healthcare will continue to increase due to the increased population trends in Africa. Secondly, the healthcare industry is exploding at the moment. We've seen a 200% increase in venture capital go to the healthcare sector. This is along with other indicators shows the market is maturing. 

Lafia is building a healthcare ecosystem driven by consent. We provide products and solutions to help healthcare ecosystem stakeholders solve some of their biggest data challenges in order to decrease the cost of care, ensure secure data sharing, and most importantly, drive a more patient-centric experience. 

Lafia Service  

• Enterprise platform that empowers secure, interoperable, and efficient sharing of data all driven by patient consent. Key features/ value proposition for stakeholders:

  • Data compliance at its core - All data is managed in compliance with HIPPA, FHIR, and HL7 standards, ensuring lawful application across the globe.

  • Customizable - Fully customizable based on size and need. Optimized for performance and cost

  • Cloud-native - working with other orgs is way easier 

  • Decentralized - work with other orgs without losing data or fear of data manipulation

  • (customer service proposition) Engineer support - engineers on call to help solve any issues or modify based on need

  • Open source ecosystem - continuous improvement in platform that ensures platform stays up to date. 

Lafia Service is the foundation of products and solutions that can be built for our ecosystem stakeholders. From this foundation, we can or others can build just about anything on it. 

For Patients (Patient Companion App) (Built) 

1. Patient Companion App puts patients in the driver's seat and empowers them to take ownership of their healthcare data. 

2. In the future, if we have a whole picture of a patient, we can work with providers and health plans to work on preventative interventions and protocols through recommendations, telehealth, etc

3. Patient companion app also creates an opportunity for patients to have a true health passport that gives a source of truth for health records

4. Provides an opportunity for patients to monetize and derive value from their data (clinical marketplace / data exchange) 

5. Provides platform for preventative healthcare opportunities (recommendations, digital prescriptions) 

6. Can be the go to health platform for patients - imagine delivering mental health interventions on the patient companion app. 

7. Easy access to scheduling and engaging with providers in the physical space and digitally. 

Providers

1. PCA empowers providers to KYP and drives improved health quality outcomes. By having access to a holistic view of patients, providers can make better-informed decisions on healthcare decisions. 

2. Saas solutions empower providers to focus on what they are good at - patient service delivery and leave the data challenges to the professionals

3. Saas solutions help create a bridge to other parts of the ecosystem helping to increase opportunities for collaboration, monetization, improved healthcare outcomes for patients, and improved service delivery. 

4. PCA app empowers providers to have an ongoing relationship with their patients increasing returns, loyalty, and increasing LTV for providers. 

Commercial and GOVT

1. Power to regulate and audit the healthcare ecosystem with powerful audit tools 

2. Healthcare population reporting and insights in ways that never could exist before. Leading to improved data-driven policy and interventions. 

3. Support in managing government-based insurance schemes. Easier to set up government-based insurance schemes. (Healthcare ecosystem in a box) Increase transparency, reduce waste, improve patient adoption and outcomes. 

Health Plans 

1. Improve billing speed - with more connected experience between stakeholders, billing, and verification will be a lot easier to manage. 

2. Reduce claims fraud, with our services, we can use AI / ML models to evaluate claims reducing fraud, incorrect payouts, etc 

3. Improve utilization rates by driving preventative healthcare interventions on the PCA app

4. Provide tools to improve risk assessment for individual patients unlocking opportunities beyond group pooling. 

5. Provide more data on providers to help health plans understand the best providers to partner with. 

Life Sciences 

1. Provide a distribution channel for studies, trials, and other needs that require data from patients 

2. Designing optimized real-world trials 

3. Centralized portal to engage patients

4. Tools to help understand the fragmented world of clinical + Patient data.

We've built on these solutions globally for the last 5 years. We also have local context as we've faced these challenges as we've navigated the healthcare system in Nigeria, and tried to navigate from Nigeria to the US.

We're building in a market and solving for something that few understand. We have the skillset to build and cultural context but we need help telling our story to people who understand this is where the future is heading and we need to build this out now to capture the opportunity to put the patient at the center of healthcare data exchange going forward. 

A couple of innovative areas:

1. We're taking a systems approach - we are providing pipes for all stakeholders instead of just one. We realize the real value is actualized when more companies opt into our platform. 

2. We've leveraged the blockchain for consent - Using the blockchain helped us drive more scaleable consent solutions for patients. This brings patients at the center of their healthcare data and patient experiences. 

3. Additional interesting features built into the patient companion app. There are a bunch of cool features that scale telehealth in a way that most other teams aren't thinking about - Physicians should be able to provide support to patients in micro-moments not just when they need to go see a physician. We've built the infrastructure for that. 

High level 

Within the next year:

1. Onboard 50,000 patients onto our network and provide immediate care and provide a better picture of their health

2. Collaborate with state or federal government to provide population health reports on the population we serve, proving the value of healthcare data to drive policy and political priorities. 

Within the next 5 years:

1. Provide technology and systems to increase insurance penetration from 10% to 30% by empowering insurance companies with more accurate and valuable data. 

2. Drive down HMO utilization rate by 20% due to preventative health programs. 

1. CAST Studies on the platform - work to understand health concerns/ baseline and look to improve (quantitative + qualitative) 

2. # of reports queried + policy informed decisions made using our data. 

3. Insurance Penetration 

4.  Partner HMO Utilization rate

Currently, healthcare data exists in siloes. As a result, healthcare stakeholders are making decisions with missing pieces of information. As a result, we see increased mortality in situations that could have been best solved with access to data. 

Not only do data siloes exist for care, but there are other areas where healthcare stakeholders could benefit from patient data. It can lead to more efficient delivery, improved preventative healthcare outcomes, and more data-informed decisions. 

We see a future where lafia provides the infrastructure to facilitate the secure sharing of data in a way that will unlock value for all. 

Currently -

1. Cloud (Azure) 

2. Blockchain - Consent 

3. Mobile app (Built on Flutter for Android / IOS) 

Future 

1. Building a privacy sandbox for more secure sharing 

2. ML/ AI models for increased insights for patients and for companies. 

Diversity is at our core - We believe the best ideas come from places that represent the full spectrum of who we are trying to serve. We look to employ for diversity where every we can.