Connect Pharmacy
A medicine affordability program that connects patients to professionals
Project start date : 01/01/2013
Beneficiary country : Philippines (the) Viet Nam
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



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
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.)