DigitalHealthNg

Building the Nigerian health tech ecosystem.

[Nigeria Health Watch @nighealthwatch]

Online pharmacies have the potential to improve product delivery at scale across the African continent.

But to harness their benefits in sub-Saharan Africa, they must be well regulated.

Read some key recommendations in today's #NHWPost

👉🏽 https://t.co/7sfyKiH2lV @PCN_Registry

[Melissa Menke @melissa_menke]

I've raised over $4mm for my first startup in Nairobi.

It was a slog.

Now I work with teams that are helping to drive more investment to African healthcare startups.

A thread on the pain points we are hearing so far from the perspective of entrepreneurs:

[DigitalHealthNg @DigitalHealthNg]

Join @TCHealthNG and @docneto on the space discussing Nigeria's diagnostic industry.

https://t.co/8a2qT8Z0Jp

[TC Health @TCHealthNG]

Set a reminder for tomorrow’s Space with @docneto
https://t.co/dedA5twuHw

[TC Health @TCHealthNG]

Join us for a Twitter Spaces event with Dr. Ikpeme Neto this Saturday, February 12 at 7:00PM WAT / 1:00PM EST

We’ll be discussing insights from our latest article on Nigeria’s growing diagnostics industry, leveraging @docneto experience as the Founder of Digital Health Nigeria.

[Nigeria Health Watch @nighealthwatch]

The health sector in Nigeria is seeing very gradual disruption in digital innovations!!!

In this piece, @mcdeelaw highlights the importance of digital innovation in healthcare to boost access to healthcare services & delivery.

Read here: https://t.co/14XfepgA5l #NWPost

[DigitalHealthNg @DigitalHealthNg]

We're back with a meetup happening tomorrow alongside @EkoInnovation in Ikoyi. Come through and network while hearing Jennie speak about her journey with @clafiya. Tickets are free.

https://t.co/U8nePTRpty

[DigitalHealthNg @DigitalHealthNg]

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[DigitalHealthNg @DigitalHealthNg]

Wohoo! We were recently released from twitter jail and are excited to start tweeting again about Nigerian and African #healthtech. A lot has happened while we were languishing in jail. Like if you've missed us on your TL and are excited to have us back.

[DigitalHealthNg @DigitalHealthNg]

Missed the #digitalhealth newsletter last month? Well it's back with a bang and reviews recent progress in the African #healthtech space. Read and share, 'Exits Without Markets' - https://t.co/pUXiJjhq0A

[DigitalHealthNg @DigitalHealthNg]

Building an on-demand healthcare #startup? Here are a few things to be aware of: https://t.co/woSeorJaaT by @uteeto

[DigitalHealthNg @DigitalHealthNg]

February #healthtech newsletter out. Covers loads of notable event and a commentary on the opportunity ongoing Health Insurance reforms presents for #startups. Read, RT, share - https://t.co/DSFWrOJWar

[DigitalHealthNg @DigitalHealthNg]

Working on a #digitalhealth solution? Come tell the industry about it at the pitch event at Digital Health Summit holding in Lagos on the 21st of March and win a cash prize. Learn more and apply to pitch. https://t.co/FNc1IFbtaP

[DigitalHealthNg @DigitalHealthNg]

January newsletter out. Learn why this award winning startup needs to educate its market in order to succeed. 'Market Education' in your inboxes now - https://t.co/cNglGaYIuW

[Nigeria Health Watch @nighealthwatch]

Only a few minutes to the #Vote4HealthNaija Tweetchat!

This is a conversation you don't want to miss.
Join us at 3 PM as we discuss health as a priority in the 2019 elections.

[Neto @docneto]

We @digitalhealthng worked with @TechCabal on this #healthtech report which is going to be a landmark one so don't miss out. Join us at TC Townhall: The State of Healthtech in Nigeria | TechCabal https://t.co/3W80OhMLbS

[DigitalHealthNg @DigitalHealthNg]

Estimates at the end of '17 were that the Nigerian e-commerce market was worth ~$13B, with over 300K orders made daily

Our team and @caring_palms were curious about whether this growth in recent years could also support an online pharmacy
#OnlinePharmacyViability

[DigitalHealthNg @DigitalHealthNg]

We surveyed 907 people over 2 months and their demographics are detailed below:

A fair mix of women and men,
most people with tertiary education |

#OnlinePharmacyViability

[DigitalHealthNg @DigitalHealthNg]

@nighealthwatch @NigeriaInfoAbj @docneto @DoctooraHealth @caring_palms @waledash @HealthTechNG @ProfOsinbajo @NOIPolls This final image is our favorite and begins to answer the question around identifying the target market.

off this data, you could make the assumption that Women aged 18-25 who are Entrepreneurs and live on Lagos island are most likely to purchase drugs from an online pharmacy

[DigitalHealthNg @DigitalHealthNg]

@nighealthwatch @NigeriaInfoAbj @docneto @DoctooraHealth @caring_palms @waledash @HealthTechNG @ProfOsinbajo @NOIPolls The rest of our survey report can be found at this link.
https://t.co/OOEHE25Vs6

Share, let us know what you think..

If you have any ideas of healthcare markets you'd like us to research, our DMs are open and we look forward to hearing from you

#OnlinePharmacyViability

[DigitalHealthNg @DigitalHealthNg]

The following tweets summarize our findings from the #OnlinePharmacyViability survey

63% of respondents preferred online drug purchases to in person purchases at the pharmacy

[DigitalHealthNg @DigitalHealthNg]

@nighealthwatch @NigeriaInfoAbj @docneto @DoctooraHealth @caring_palms @waledash @HealthTechNG @ProfOsinbajo @NOIPolls we acknowledge the limitations of this report: sample size, location

we also understand that there is still work to do to understand the barriers in place that prevent these optimistic survey results into actual online orders for online pharmacy companies

but this is a start..