Transforming Global Healthcare Systems

May 16th, Apps For HealthMohawk College

Presentation byZakir HussainCEO

May 16 2013

• BA, majored in economics & government at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY • member of public policy committee to reform healthcare in the

USA• MBA from Bentley University, Waltham, MA• Pioneer in videoconferencing from PictureTel which helped

launch the telemedicine sector in the US• Director of Marketing for CDI Education Corporation• CEO & Founder of VeloSolutions a leading wholesale telecom

company in VOIP – since 2000• SVP & Founder of Pharmavida, SA• CEO & Founder of Velo Mobile Health since 2012

About Me

Welcome to Velo Mobile Health

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What We Do• We envision, build, and market health care applications that reside on mobile

devices and the Internet. Our products make it easy for health care stakeholders and patients to communicate with each other and share and collaborate on medical data.

• Our company builds and markets products globally and is the process of launching our Vdoctor platform throughout Canada and Central America and later other parts of the developing world.

• We participate in the emerging field of mhealth bringing systemic change to the practise of medicine and the information systems which support it.

• Doctors everywhere are accessing the internet, doing research and learning about new treatments, procedures, and techniques faster and quicker.

• Information on advantages and benefits of Important trends and concepts such as the adoption of EMRs, EHRs are spread and also being adopted.

• All doctors want to upgrade their skills and promote better health – not just doctors in Canada• A recent survey by the University of Rafael Landivar in Guatemala

revealed for example:• 83% of Doctors had a smart phone• 88% of Doctors felt it was important to invest in technology!

Its’ a Flat Connected World

Major Differences in Adoption Drivers

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Canada Developing World

Govt incentives for EMRs, EHRs, and other electronic systems which drive adoption averaging 25K plus

Low to no government incentives except those provided by NGOs or external donor nations

Wide spread avaliablity of Internet Lack of internet access

Higher adoption of smart phones typically averaging 30-50%

Low adoption of smart phones – less than 20%

Easy access to heath care facilities – universal care

Low or difficult to access health care facilities

Regulators such as ehealth Ontario forcing adoption

High cost of EMRs prevents adoption

Highly educated medical force and public

Doctors and populations are not technologically savvy

Little to no mobile carrier involvement

Mobile carriers are often driving programs in partnership with NGOs

• Its focused on apps primarily• There are thousands of Apps everything from counting

calories, to diet plans, pulse meter, you name it, we got an app available via the android or iTunes store.

• There are so many apps that we have to seriously consider regulating them like the FDA is planning to do in the USA

• Legacy system providers of EHRs, EMRs are responding to a mobile society by investing heavily to mobile-enable their platforms to make themselves accessible via apps

• Doctors are conservative and resistant to change and adoption of new technologies and are not very patient centric. • This behavior is fostered by the government reimbursement

system

mhealth in Canada

• As per the New York Times, the jury is out on mhealth in the developing world*

• There are many mhealth initiatives in the developing world funded by Ngos in cooperation with mobile operators• Most are program specific solutions• They work at pilot levels• Applications are not robust or designed to scale• Applications are not patient centric• Most successful applications are localized and customized to the

societal conditions. • Most people don’t have smart phones, so mobile app strategy

does not achieve scale or scope

*The Benefits of Mobile Health, on Hold , By TINA ROSENBERG, March 13, 2013 http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/13/the-benefits-of-mobile-health-on-hold/?smid=tw-share

Does mhealth work?

• 247 million people have downloaded a mobile health app• There are apps for almost every health need

• Almost every mobile operator in the world has identified mhealth as one of their top 3 strategic business opportunities.• Remote monitoring – wearable sensor technologies• Remote diagonistics

• Robust, localized and scalable applications are needed• Apps need to be integrated into the overall health

management process- systemic approach• Its a big big world filled with opportunity and better health

The Global mHealth Opportunity

zak@velomobilehealth.com19-1151 Denison Street Markham, Ontario, L3R 4B3, Canada Office: 416.497.3885 Fax: 416-352-6190 www.velomobilehealth.com

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