Connect Pharmacy

A medicine affordability program that connects patients to professionals

Project start date : 01/01/2013

Beneficiary country : Philippines (the) Viet Nam

Healthcare themes targeted

  • Access to quality medicines/pharmacies
  • Chronic diseases
  • Cardiovascular illnesses

Fields of application

  • Information, education and communication for behaviour change (IEC)
  • Patient monitoring and medical data
  • Financial access to care, microinsurance

Stage of development

  • Routine project/operational

Financing method

  • Public (grant/subsidies, call for proposals/call for tender, etc.)
  • Private (private investors, crowdfunding, philanthropy, etc.)
  • Government agency (USAID, etc.)

Area where the project is utilised

  • International (in several countries)

Economic model(s)

  • Revenue generated by the beneficiaries/healthcare facilities
  • Sales of data analysis

About the project

Connect Pharmacy is a medicine affordability program that allows patients to receive sponsored discounts by providing their mobile number. In return, they receive health education messages and refill reminders to help them maintain their condition, while also building customer loyalty with their local pharmacies. In addition, the program provides insight on market research data that was previously not available to pharmaceutical companies and health organizations.


In many emerging markets the key problems that healthcare usually faces are affordability, accessibility and adherence.


Connect Pharmacy helps address the key healthcare problems through sponsored discounts, ease of enrollment, and automated health education messages.

260 Full-Time equivalents

260 Employees

N/C Volunteers

1 Service providers

Connect Pharmacy

200 000

Number of beneficiaries since launch

Target audience

  • Sick people

Project objectives

  • Decreased mortality
  • Decreased morbidity
  • Reduced suffering
  • Improved treatment

Materials used

  • Cellular (mobile) phone
  • Smartphone

Technologies used

  • Mobile telecommunications (without data connection)
  • Internet
  • Mobile app (Android, iOS, Windows Phone, HTML5, etc.)

About the sponsor

mClinica

mClinica is a start-up designed to improve healthcare access by networking pharmacists, pharmaceutical companies and patients.

Sector : Industrial (Startups, enterprises, etc.)

Country of origin : Singapore

Contact : Sponsor website Project website

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Offline use

Yes

Open source

No

Open data

No

Independent evaluation

Yes, auto-evaluated or evaluated by a related organization

Partners

  • Drugstores Association of the Philippines

    Institutions (Communities, public authorities, NGOs, foundations, etc.)