Motivation
A lot of countries have a vital shortage of trained doctors universally when compared to the WHO recommended ratio. Additionally, with about 80 per cent of the medicinal workforce focused in the top 8-10 towns and treating only 28 per cent of the total residents, access to healthcare remains a hope for many. In rural India, a patient may have to travel to another city to meet a qualified doctor. Remote areas suffer with an acute shortage of trained personnel and equipment. Also, in times of global pandemic, the medical workforce is getting over-worked due to poor doctor to patient ratio.
Objectives
The necessity of time is to provide good quality healthcare and a home-monitored healthcare system, to minimize the workload on the medical workforce monitor and patients with low or mild problems remotely.
- To connect patients in remote and rural areas with the best doctors of their choice.
- To provide essential medical services at the lowest possible cost.
- To provide a proper patient medical history management system.
- To provide proper patient monitoring equipment in remote areas, where medical reach is hard or disconnected due to lack of connectivity.
- To evolve, innovate and renovate the concept of Tele-medicine using IoT.
- To promote technical job opportunities for people to work as an authorized user of the Medi-Buddy kit.
- To make the process of Policy claims easier for the patients, with all the legal procedure documents required for policy claims available online
Solution
Medi-Buddy is a Real-Time Health Monitoring and Medical Consultation System. The website and mobile application offers people better access to healthcare support beyond their bounds of convenience and connects them to doctors, specialists and healthcare experts on a digital platform, which provides them access to an online expert without a physical visit.
Product
- IoT device - To be worn by the user for realtime health monitoring.
- Website and Mobile Application - For virtual consulation through video chats.
What's next for MEDI-BUDDY
- Integrating an AI-based chat bot for assistance.
- Website tour for first time users.
- Mobile application tour for first time users.
- Text-based doctor consultation.

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