CEO and Co-founder
| Selected winner: | CP Health Innovations Inc. |
| Solution name: | CareGoEMR |
| Origin of the winner: | Philippines |
CareGo EMR is an early-stage startup that is focused on co-developing healthcare innovation with rural communities in the Philippines. The team’s combined work experience in public healthcare, academe, and information technology aims to deliver human-centered solutions to achieve the company’s long-term vision of a more equitable healthcare in the Philippines.
CareGoEMR
CareGoEMR is a vaccination management and an SMS nudge system.
Based on the developers' experience that despite having free public health services, the community is not fully engaged due to inefficient health records management and lack of public awareness, CareGoEMR allows health workers to scan automatically enroll qualified participants to health programmes, and invite them through personalized SMS messaging.
Also by streamlining the communication chain of general local announcements and word-of-mouth to SMS nudging, more than 1000 participants were brought to vaccination programmes using measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccines to prevent measles outbreak in partner municipalities. Through the solution, health workers also noted a generally improved health-seeking behavior developed by the community, making their work easier and more efficient.
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