Month: July 2022

For rural India, access to proper healthcare is more a privilege than a right.

This was the insight that led Dr. Neha Verma, a biomedical engineer, to become an entrepreneur who incubated Intelehealth at Johns Hopkins as a Global Health Innovation Fellow.

The greatest challenge in rural areas is a lack of doctors and inadequate capacities of mid-level providers in PHCs & HWCs. Intelehealth, an open-source digital platform, bridges that gap by empowering public health services deliver affordable primary healthcare to rural communities through telemedicine.

As an ACT For Health grantee, Intelehealth has partnered with the Odisha state government to deliver comprehensive primary healthcare across 30 districts by training frontline workers like ASHAs & ANMs, enabling less specialised health workers to take up specialised tasks & strengthening eSanjeevani telemedicine for access to specialised health workers, where required.

This project aims to develop a resilient and accessible primary healthcare while improving health outcomes and we’re excited to see the transformation it will bring to Odisha’s public healthcare system in the time to come!

If you’re a social entrepreneur working on an innovative solution to the access to affordability gap on healthcare in India, get in touch with us here.

Because we believe that everyone can be a co-founder of social change!

Sanjay Vijayakumar is a tech entrepreneur who leverages his engineering background to problem solve for the social sector. In 2020, he identified the pandemic as a grave threat before most others and decided to ACT!

In addition to leveraging his network to gather real time data, Sanjay mobilised a vibrant group of individuals to come together as the Coronasafe network and created CARE – a pandemic management tool that streamlined information and action on managing COVID patients in partnership with the National Health Mission.

Since then, the software has supported over 3.5 lakh patients and has allowed multiple state governments to make timely, data driven decisions.

As the pandemic receded, Sanjay and his team at Coronasafe began to understand the severity of the actual problem – rural India still struggles with lack of healthcare infrastructure because of a lack of qualified healthcare professionals. It was a problem that required a tech driven solution – a tele ICU that could enable specialists to virtually connect with doctors in rural areas.

Since developing and maintaining such technology was expensive, Coronasafe inducted the best student developers in the country and with their help, CARE was enhanced to have a TeleICU feature that ensures availability of quality critical care in rural India.

Today, as a part of the 10 Bed ICU project, CARE is being deployed in 1250 ICUs in government hospitals across Karnataka, Meghalaya, Manipur, Nagaland, Sikkim and Assam.

We’re proud to have them on board and look forward to the impact their work will have on accessibility to quality healthcare!

If you’re a social entrepreneur working on an innovative solution to the access to affordability gap on healthcare in India, get in touch with us here.

Because we believe that everyone can be a co-founder of social change!

After years of working in the pharmaceutical sector – Aditi Ganju, a clinical biochemist, and her husband Dr. Aakash Ganju began thinking about how they could enable healthier futures for India’s underserved communities.

Saathealth, their entrepreneurial venture, was born as an attempt to help low-income families get easy access to credible health information and make timely healthcare decisions.

At the peak of COVID’s 2nd wave, they realised the wide gap between such communities and healthcare providers and decided to create an AI powered app. One that could not only share health information in an engaging and gamified way but also drive better health outcomes through connections with affordable healthcare.

Today, the Saathealth app is tailored to vernacular needs and has already reached over 7 million individuals across 10 cities!

We’re so excited to see the change their efforts will bring in India’s healthcare landscape in the coming time!

If you’re a social entrepreneur working on an innovative solution to the access to affordability gap on healthcare in India, get in touch with us here.

Because we believe that everyone can be a co-founder of social change!