Aki mkioniona nikitafuta funding , mnisaidie because we need resources to move forward . To get that world class team of cracked engineers , ship our hardware and have the system on full rollout by Q3 , we need funding .
I would greatly appreciate if you speak a word about us to people and organisations that can help us make @spairally work .
@Dr_AustinOmondi Healthcare cannot and will never be free. Someone must pay for it directly or indirectly and its always expensive. Health infrastructure availability will depend on whether people can afford to utilise them otherwise no one will bother setting up the Infrastructure
@kdfinfo Recruits should go mandatory medical tests before onset of training to pick out underlying potential lethal cardiac conditions. @DOSHS_KE does these
@mbiti_mwondi The value prop for telehealth I believe is in Just in time convenience, and most of us in general would never think of health that way. Still it's doable I believe
@mbiti_mwondi Very limited. I've looked at it and 90% of patients still prefer the traditional hospital visit, mostly coz our health seeking behaviour in general isn't preventive and that's really where it excels. But in other instances it'll definitely work. We can discuss further
@mbiti_mwondi Patients with NCDs, or specifically things like lab tests or prescriptions, it's very difficult. Only if applied in mainstream delivery do I think it will work well, since even after you get something from telehealth, you still need to be refereed to a physical facility.
@mbiti_mwondi True and therein lies the difficulty. If interfaced with mainstream service provision it would be easier. Plus we really overestimate what value people derive from smartphones. It's more fu than utility. Unless its targeted to a specific niche say monitoring and following up