Revolutionizing Global Health: Modernizing Primary Care through Digital Solutions
By empowering individuals and local providers with technology, we aim to create integrated, accessible healthcare systems that address chronic diseases, improve outcomes, and ensure true health equity.
Global Health
Effective primary healthcare is the centerprice of a well-functioning health system. Holistic, integrated primary care through trusted, empowered and properly incentivized local providers can address 90% of an individual’s lifetime health issues, helping identify and manage problems early, treat chronic diseases effectively, and prevent escalation of treatment and cost down-the-line. Yet, despite rapid advances in medicine and technology, this most essential of health services remains elusive, as most of global health continues to focus on fragmented, disease-focused vertical programs. Clients are treated as passive recipients, and not as capable agents of their own health and wellbeing.
While the health sector focuses on a few diseases and conditions, people continue to suffer from chronic diseases and pains, gastrointestinal aliments, skin conditions, mental health disorders, end-of-life needs and other universal health issues. 67% of deaths in developing countries today are from chronic diseases, and 8 Million people die each year due to poor quality of healthcare. This mismatch between people’s needs and the services rendered causes loss of agency and erodes trust in health systems.
We belive that empowering people to be effective agents of their own health and well-being, and building a robuts, modern, community-based primary healthcare system is a key to achieving true health equity. BY leveraging the exponentially growing power and reach of technology (smart devices, digital heatlh platforms, AI, rapid diagnostics, etc.), people’s inherent agency, and trusted local providers, we can foster better health outcomes and deliver delightful care experiences affordably and accessibly, even in low-resource health systems.
In addtion to catalyzing innovations in effective digitally enable preventive and primary-care models, we also invest in integration and continuity of care across currently fragmented systems, and enabling regulatory enviroments and financing models for such novel systems to scale in Asia and Africa.
Primary healthcare can address 90% of lifetime health needs, but receives <10% of global health funding
Of deaths in developing countries are from chronic diseases, but few countries have proactive mechanisms for monitoring and managing them
Up to 70% of primary healthcare in many countries are provide by informal providers of healthcare such as drug shops, whitout any training or oversight
Of all deaths in low-resource countries happen due to poor quality of care
“By empowering people and their trusted local health providers with rapidly advancing health technologies like AI and diagnostics, we can finally democratize access to quality healthcare for people in some of the furthest reaches of the planet”
Our team
For the past 10 years, our team has been researching, designing and delivering technology solutions in established and emerging markets through sales, donations, partnerships, and investments.
Featured projects
We invest in and support companies and organizations that work on the issue of technology and Healthcare.
We are supporting PSI to develop a new methodology for mapping journeys and measure their outcomes and care experiences at scale, using remote engagement and AI
Penda Health, an urgent care clinic network in Kenya, in developing an AI-enabled Whatsapp chatbot to enable their chronic patients to stay on their ideal care pathways and manage conditions even after they have left the clinic.
Innovations in Healthcare, an incubator aliated with Duke University, has trained an LLM based bot on a curated knowledge repository on global health innovation procress and case studies, with the goal of making it easy for innovators to access the frontiers of knowledge
We’re proud to support these organizations
Our vision: The whole world, empowered.
We believe youth should shape technology, not be shaped by it. We imagine a world where every child is a creator. A world where kids are pulled not just into playing games, but into building them — and in the process, become coders, designers, storytellers, and changemakers.
What would the world look like if every teen grew up with the tools to challenge the injustices of the modern world? What if the next generation could not just use technology, but use it to rebuild what’s broken?
If we succeed, we’ll see the answer in the world around us.
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