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Doctor7
A mobile app to connect medical doctors and patients alike, bringing healthcare to more people.
Define three specific objectives that you would like to achieve with your proposal.
- Improve Honduras healthcares availabilty.
- Help unemployed medical doctors to get jobs.
- Increase availabilty for specialized doctors to Honduran rural areas.
What problems (particularly in value chain competitiveness and global disruption) are your community’s stakeholders facing due to the Covid-19 pandemic?
- Because of the pandemic Healthcare systems worlwide faced a disminution up to 70% in patients' being this really problematic in countries like Honduras where Healthcare fails to update to newer solutions such as telemedicine.
- Honduras is seeing an unprecedented time of medical unemployment with over 10k medical doctors currently unemployed
What minimum viable solution(s) are you proposing to address the challenge(s) in your community?
We are building a mobile app to help patients get healthcare and for medical doctors to keep working during this time of pandemic.
Share your story (your narrative)
Because of COVID-19 people are having a tough time getting healthcare and I as a medical doctor see that my colleagues are losing their jobs because of this, that's why we created Doctor7 a mobile app that unites patients and medical doctors in a same place. There has been 70% reduction of patient afflux worldwide and our latin american countries are being severely affected by this because healthcare fails to update to new technologies such as telemedicine. With Doctor7 we are able to give a viable alternative to classic healthcare without having any risks of contagions as hospitals and clinics have high contagions risk. Doctor7 allows people from every rural area in Honduras to access Healthcare at lower prices.
Please provide any additional relevant information that you would like to share.
We were winners of Techstars 2020 Startup Weekend COVID-19 Honduras as "Médico en Casa" and Honduras Digital Challenge 2020 in COVID-19 National category.
Hello Eduardo,
This is a good concept. But my question is how will you educate and bring this concept to what everyone both literate and ilitrate can easily use .
Hi Eduardo,
It is a good initiative, but, add some statistics on how the Honduran healthcare delivery is insufficient to meet the Honduran population needs. And also, how is the rate of unemployment of the medical doctors?
Hi Eduardo, great idea, is this a for profit or social enterprise? How is the rate of unemployment of the medical doctors?
Hi Eduardo,
Awesome submission and I am happy that you're very passionate about health care for people in rural areas. I just wanted to highlight something. First I would want you to narrow down your target market and clearly state your customer, people in rural areas have issues to do with internet connectivity and technology how best do you intend to address that. Then some statistics in your submission would be great to actually give us a clear picture. Then regarding doctors losing jobs that to me is not very practical as this period require as many doctors as possible. Then also state your revenue model on how you will sustain the app. Thank you and all the best.
Hi Eduardo, Great idea, my concern for any health applications or systems is data protection/privacy, how are you planning to address this? Most people are forgetting that digital space come with the cost of protecting information so they don't think about cyber security issues such as information theft and data leakage. Please remember you will carrying confidential data in your platform.
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Ola Eduardo, como estas compadre?! Todo bien espero. I like your initiative. You mentioned telemedicine. How data intensive is this? Do you need to have a home internet/WiFi connection or does it run on a mobile network? Does it consume a lot of data (cost to the patient)? What are the charges for the patient? Is there medical cover from the government?
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Hi, can you please let's us know the Ownership and usage gaps of mobile phones to smartphones in rural areas? By mobile I mean phones that can atleast browse the internet and do Facebook but don't have capacity for Playstore
Hello, you mentioned: Increase availabilty for specialized doctors to Honduran rural areas. How do you plan to solve the problem of high speed internet connectivity in rural areas, high internet costs for health diagnoses against orthodox traditional medication and internet literacy. Thanks
I was wondering if this app will consume a large portion of data/Wifi for both patients and medical?
Thanks.
Hi Eduardo. It is wonderful to use technology into making the health system efficient by connecting Dr - patient. My quick question is how does the app validate doctors and ensure they are 1. Qualified 2. Not impostors? If i am looking to recruit/hire a doctor, would i be able to do so via this platform? And then of cause just to echo again on on patient confidentiality and data protection. Its important to have measures in place to avoid law suits. Lastly, in terms of data storage and expiration, how long/far back will you keep medical history and 1. how much storage are you looking at, 2. how efficiently does the app fetch what won't be readily available in its cache/local DB?
Hello Eduardo,
My advice Start small and build momentum, Being a social entrepreneur can be very difficult, you are constantly in a field dominated by changing dynamics, you will often face business challenges, and you have to start small and build your enterprise from the ground up. You must be resilient, realistic, and passionate about your goals and the impact you are trying to achieve.
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Thank you
Great Concept. I am curious to know more about pricing strategy and how would you bring doctors to use your App?
Hi Eduardo, Great initiative! Did you already have a chance to test proof the app? What is number of citizens of Honduras that have mobile phone with possibility to use apps? And which number of those has downloaded your app? What is your plan to promote the usage of the app, getting people (doctors and patients) to learn about it? Please specify all the modalities of the app for final application. Many thanks, Ivana
this is great innovation good luck to you
Hi Eduardo, being in the same field I totally support your idea to make use of the available technology to enable better healthcare. I am very curious why so many doctors are unemployed ? Especially in this situation where medical doctors are in high demand everywhere ? Is there a specific reason that doctors from Honduras cannot be employed in other latin American countries because I imagine unlike South East Asia where different countries speak different language many latin American countries have shared linguistic ability.
Also if you have so many unemployed doctors do consider getting onto the healthcare content rather than just telemedicine. In my experience content is what drives the users to the app rather than just telemedicine service. It also increases the value of your service.
Good luck !
Hi Eduardo, I like this goal: Increase availabilty for specialized doctors to Honduran rural areas. Because this is a very common need in our countries. And it is a very good oportunity to reduce the gap in the access to health for this comunity. They normally have to assume costs of traveling to a main cities to have a date with a specialized doctors.
In Colombia, for example, the public health service do not include this kind of services of telemedicine or similar, in this case, this service is for private health systems. How do you solve this problem, if people in rural areas normally have limited financial resources?
Hi Salgado,
Good job. But why only medical doctors? When a patient has access to a medical doctor and vice versa through Doctor7 and certain drugs is recommended, how will the patient have access to quality pharmacy stores/pharmacies to get the drugs? Is inclusion of qualified pharmacies/pharmaceutical stores in your app part of your plan? Can you look at use of drone technology in drug delivery to the patients?
Hello Eduardo,wonderful idea,i will want to know how is this going to be sustainable?also you said you will be targeting the rural areas my question is considering the literacy level of this group people how will they be able to understand your innovation and adopt it as well?I wish you good luck you have my vote.I will like you to visit https://cocreate.itu.int/post/3466710 for your comments and vote as well.
This is an incredibly great concept. To improve your submission, highlight who will use your app. What are the literate capacities of those? Is it a subscription plan or one that operates on freemium model? Most importantly, what does your app do? Be detail enough to guide your audience to the benefits, provisions and the value your app adds to people in your community. Please endeavor to follow me on my journey throughout the ITU challenge. Many thanks
Hello Eduardo
Great initiative and target field.
Most of my questions have been highlighted by the team.Although Kindly elaborate the pricing strategy and the security measures that have been implemented to ensure data been collected and history being shared are protected.
Good Luck Sir Keep at it.
Best Regards.
Hello Eduardo, This is a good idea. How do the clients pay the private doctors?
Thanks.
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