Hopimobil

First we have to define what is a destabilizing event. Destabilizing event mean some events that cause a loss of equilibrium as a conflict, displacement or natural disasters. For certain societies where access to health care is difficult, these destabilizing event cause problem in the availability , accessibility and quality of health services.

The specific problem within the challenge that we are working to solve is to have access to health care even when the community is facing armed conflict. Because of armed conflict, people are more exposed to fragile context with higher risk to death. That include that people can not have primary care when needed because of local capacity issue. That also means that people can not have a quality of health service because of insecurity.

For example those armed conflict can be leaded by armed gang. In the community that we are working in, the percentage of armed gang is about 75% which cause a huge issue that prevent people to access properly to health care when needed. The whole population of a country can be affected by this problem. The right to health being part of the fundamental right, everyone should have an efficient health system and a way to receive help when needed. This is the reason why the team leader and the team thought about a solution to improve local capacity and build resilience in health system.

Our solution provides a low-cost, secure and mobile platform matching patients with our network of trusted health specialists located anywhere in the world and local fixed or mobile medical centers/laboratories to provide access to quality care even in destabilizing situations. 

It allows patients suffering a specific health problem (ex: headache, bellyache, etc) to quickly connect in a matter of seconds with one or more of our trusted remote physicians located anywhere in the world and who is/are well-suited to assist them for this specific health problem. The platform can match remote physicians working on a specific patient case with other  remote physicians located anywhere in the world. If the physician asks for the app, this makes our platform even more powerful.

The way it works is very simple:  The client uses his/her smartphone or any other small phone in case there is no access to internet connectivity and tells our system what he/she feels. Our platform thus connects them to one of our remote trusted health specialists for assistance. 

There are two scenarios: 

1) The problem does not require any physical intervention. In this case, the remote physician tells the patient which medication to take and might plan the next online appointment with the client for followup. 

2) The online communication is not enough so that the physician can diagnose the patient, he asks him to make a  laboratory test or he wants to have access to his/her vital signs. In this case, the mobile app using GPS technology, guides the patient to one of our well-suited local laboratory partners/medical centers partners or in some very destabilizing situations, asks them to use our gadget which can take the patient's vital sign and assign this information to the patient document on the system so that the remote health specialist can access it and uses this information to provide a medication prescription and plan next appointment for other follow up. 

Several remote health specialists can collaborate on a single patient case via the platform if there is need for that. Also, our mobile platform allows remote health specialists to collaborate with local generalist physicians working in local partnered health centers in order to better provide care to a patient on a specific health problem.

In some cases, clients might feel uncomfortable to identify themselves. In situation, during online meetings on the platform between patients and remote health specialists, clients might have the choice to identify themselves or not. 

Also, in order to make our platform a trusted place for patients, we define a safe strategy for health specialists to join the platform. They will be validated by a hospital or a university and sign a legal document engaging them to be accountable legally for the service they are provided on the system.

The target populations that interest us are those where people live in difficult situations because of destabilizing events that can put them in fragile contexts. Particularly people who live in countries where the government cannot respond effectively and efficiently to the  needs of the population. Therefore we are working to bring a significant change in the lives of these people. 

The health system being one of those that requires more logistics, staff and equipments, it becomes unavoidable that the governments of low-income countries where there can be violence, armed conflicts, poverty cannot not meet the healthcare needs of our target population.

In addition, because of these difficult contexts, the population is on its own, moving to a hospital can be difficult, so it is the wealthiest people who will have the means and access to health care.

What we offer with this solution is unlimited access to healthcare personnel at any time at any time. It will therefore meet their needs in an effective way because There will therefore be available to Our target population Specialists from all over the world ready to serve them and advise them on any of the diseases as real on our platform. In addition, thanks to this solution, anyone with a smartphone will be able to communicate, exchange with health personnel without having to move from one city to another.

Several reasons make us the right people to design and deliver this solution to the target population, but the biggest is the proximity we have to the target population that we serve this solution.

As said before, the target population to which we propose this solution is the one whose government cannot adequately meet their health needs while the population is facing destabilizing events such as armed conflicts or who have experienced destabilizing events in the past. As a natural disaster and the people are still dealing with the repercussions. The first example of a country that lived and still lives in this situation is the country that the team currently live in, that is to say: Haiti.
The team leader and the team come from the Haitian community, we have experienced and knowledged the problems of access to health care because they are part of the daily lives of our loved ones. This is why as young Haitian leader we made a field observation to better understand the needs of our target population. When designing this solution, the team leader and the team also called on health specialists and asked their opinions on this subject.
Its design and implementation are guided by the demand to be able to discuss and have medical opinions online. Several people that the team has consulted about this project in Our target community have admitted to having probably thought of having a means like the one we are proposing but which can come to nothing because of a lack of resources and logistics.

The design of Hopimobil and its implementation in the real life of the Haitian population could be a turning point in the health system in Haiti. It could guarantee access to a mobile platform of health experts for all in real time

Concepts are created (named) to describe, explain and capture reality as it is known and understood. A prototype is the representation of the concept. It focuses on the full functionality of all included features.

Our solution is rather a prototype because we have gone beyond the ideology of this solution, we have materialized it.

Hopimobil is an application that can be operational with the necessary funds and resources. It has been tested by developers and can be installed already on smartphones. Hopimobile works and we can already connect to the platform and register as a patient, present the symptoms of the illness. The platform then compiles a medical file and sends the request to a specialist who can later give his medical opinion.

 Of course it remains a prototype because we still have a lot of work to complete so that our solution can achieve its full effectiveness and viability.

Our solution being still in the prototype phase, it is not yet on the market and is not yet available on application stores such as Google play store or apple store. Therefore currently Hopimobil has not yet helped anyone in the health system but our team is working to make this dream a reality in order to resiliently solve problems with health access even in destabilizing events.

We are applying to solve for several reasons: 

1) Financial reason: If selected to be a Solver team, the 10 000 USD we will receive will be useful. For now, I am the only mobile developer working on the prototype. This is why I can start developing the solution without expending any money. And because I use (Firebase powerful, scalable cloud-based back-end solution, and flutter as a multi-platform solution from Google, and based on my experience on developing and releasing mobile app on both play store and app store, I am able to develop the prototype on my own. So, my team can use the 10 000 USD to pay additional developers to work on the solution and we can pay also for cloud services with a part of it. 

2) Support to help our solution go to production and be scaled : We saw that solver teams have access to mentorship, coaching, and strategic advice from experts, as well as the Solve and MIT networks. This will help us to advance our solution.

3) Inspiration : As mention on the "become-a-solver" page at the Solve website, solver teams join a class of impressive peers acting as trusted as trusted support, inspiration and guidance, we will enjoy being part of that teams to get inspired and have enough energy and motivation to make the solution a reality. When being among like minded-people try to solve challenges of our time, we are more motivated. 

4) Trust of the brand: Even if our solution is efficient, people need to trust it. For that to happen, being showed in the media and at conferences will help a lot. People will trust a brand better when they see people are talking about it everywhere. Even people in my community, they will have a higher image of the solution if they see people are globally talking about it. They will have a kind of pride.