Kenya’s HealthTech AfyaRekod Announces Universal Patient Portal for Global Health Data Mobility Management

AfyaRekod, a Kenya-based health technology business, has unveiled the world’s first completely automated universal patient portal, which was created using blockchain technology.

This portal will revolutionize patient care in Africa and around the globe.

Patients and the medical staff caring for them would have real-time access to their health data and medical history through a secured central platform, ensuring appropriate continuous medical treatment as well as crucial rapid access to information in an emergency.

“We identified the collection and storage of correct data at all levels of the health infrastructure as a fundamental issue. The answer was to provide real-time access to data that reflects the mobility of health records. Our platform now gives patients sovereign ownership rights over their data and, most crucially, enables them to construct a gateway with all of their health information. The patient logs in and can view all the data that has been shared with them by every healthcare professional. The ability of patients to control their medical data and have immediate access to their information can save lives, and it is their right to do so, according to Kamara.

As an Adanian Lab start-up, AfyaRekod was created in 2019 by CEO John Kamara with seed funding from Mac Venture Capital and Next Chymia. When a buddy passed away as a result of receiving incorrect medical treatment during an emergency, Kamara witnessed firsthand how a lack of medical records and static data could result in bad medical management. In order to bridge the gap between health care and therapy for individuals, medical professionals, providers, and organizations, Kamara created an AI platform that would track health data.

Medical records are an essential tool for maintaining health, alerting healthcare personnel to prescriptions, chronic conditions, prior issues, and treatments, and finally enabling them to choose the most suitable course of therapy.

Misdiagnosis is a severe issue that might cause real-condition treatment to be delayed. In the USA, a nation with a highly developed healthcare system, there are over 12 million cases of patient misdiagnosis each year, according to an IOM report published in 2015. Misdiagnosis can be avoided, but only if medical records are precise and portable.

The epidemic has pushed the fast-forward button, making health data analytics and accessibility more urgent. AfyaRekod, a patient-centered innovation in health care, is addressing this global issue.

The blockchain-based Universal Patient Portal, which is subscription-based, provides patients with real-time access to a marketplace of different healthcare providers as well as a consolidated mobile data health passport that gives them consistent access to their health records.

The AfyaRekod Universal Patient Portal provides a secure, decentralized, intelligent telehealth solution, healthcare resources, symptom trackers, reminders, and notifications, as well as the mobility of the record across multiple channels and devices, in addition to letting patients securely manage their health records, including health diaries, prescriptions, and summaries of hospital visits. Although all patients should use these resources, those with chronic illnesses, parents, expectant mothers, and people with inherited conditions can benefit the most from them.

Doctors and other healthcare professionals can use the AfyaRekod platform, which offers an electronic health management system with digital tools to handle all important areas of hospital services and clinics.

The system has many features, including hospital administration, patient management, knowledge management, and inventory management, as well as an AI-driven reporting tool that enables businesses to make data-driven decisions, forecasts, and illness early detection. The portal allows NGOs and other associated organizations to register and administer their beneficiary groups.

Through AICE Africa, AfyaRekod, a component of the NVIDIA AI initiative, has more than 150,000 users in Kenya alone and more than 50 hospitals as it expands to Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Zambia.

The Association of Sisterhoods of Kenya (AOSK), Healthy Mind Foundation (Nigeria), AURA (South Africa), GE Healthcare, Telkom, The Africa Block-Chain Center, The AI Center of Excellence, Adanian Labs, and Lishe Living are just a few of the important organizations with whom AfyaRekod has partnered.