Smart Health Ltd

Making healthcare services more accessible, affordable and efficient

Project start date : 05/05/2016

Last updated : 16/03/2022

Beneficiary country : Mauritius

Healthcare themes targeted

  • Primary healthcare
  • Access to quality medicines/pharmacies
  • Chronic diseases

Fields of application

  • Patient monitoring and medical data
  • Financial access to care, microinsurance

Stage of development

  • Pilot project/testing/trials

Financing method

  • Private (private investors, crowdfunding, philanthropy, etc.)

Area where the project is utilised

  • Provincial/regional (in one region of a single country)

Economic model(s)

  • Income generated by beneficiaries
  • Revenue generated by the beneficiaries/healthcare facilities

Target audience

  • Healthcare professionals and structures (hospitals, healthcare centres/clinics, health networks)
  • Entire population
  • Sick people

Project objectives

  • Reduced suffering
  • Improved treatment

Materials used

  • Smartphone
  • Tablet
  • Computer
  • Connected objects

Technologies used

  • Internet
  • Mobile app (Android, iOS, Windows Phone, HTML5, etc.)

Offline use

Yes

Open source

No

Open data

No

Independent evaluation

No

About the sponsor

Smart Health Ltd

Smart Health Ltd is a software and hardware development startup specialised in healthcare. Founded by two medical doctors with passion in computer programming and electronics, Smart Health aims to make healthcare services more accessible, affordable and efficient. We develop user-driven mobile health applications to connect patients along the journey of care. Smart Health Ltd was the only African startup to have made it to the finals of the European Telemedicine Innovation Competition in Oslo, Norway. Our first application, Doctor Assistant, which is a free EMR App has been published on the first page of the WHO Compendium of Innovative Health Technologies for Low Resource Settings.

Sector : Industrial (Startups, enterprises, etc.)

Country of origin : Mauritius

Contact : Sponsor website Project website

Partners

  • Swan

    Industrial (Startups, enterprises, etc.)

  • Medisave

    Healthcare (professionals and structures)

  • Medical Council of Mauritius

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

  • The University of Edinburgh

    Academic entities (Universities, research laboratories, etc)