It takes a village...

The majority of the world’s people currently live in rural and remote areas, representing a shift that is seen in developing and third world nations. However, the majority of health workers and infrastructure remains centralized to the cities and semi-urban areas. This concern is common to almost all countries and poses a major challenge to the timely and adequate providence of healthcare.

For example, with Nigeria’s increases in patient populations and lack of improvement in health status, health providers, health centers and governments are struggling to provide proper primary care and to keep patients out of emergency rooms, hospitals and other high cost settings. Care workers are forced to explore new ways to extend care to homes, villages, rural and urban communities, with little tools available. Some are un-diagnosed and far too many die. 

Traditionally, the diagnostic capabilities in these environments have been sparse, expensive and disconnected, leading to declining health, lost time and higher mortality rates.

Solution: Clinician Mobility

We are working with Rijuven to solve this problem by improving the diagnostic process, facilitating remote monitoring and patient examination and increasing access to lower cost, higher quality care in the places it is needed the most. Rijuven's patient examination platform allows diagnosis and, many times, treatment of patients in one place, at one time and with higher quality and outcomes.

Rijuven has created the Clinic In a Bag (CIB) program as a fully equipped single ultra-portable care delivery system that can be deployed in any area. With the simple design and wirelessly connected suite of medical devices, labs and instant clinical analytics, care workers can diagnose and treat patients in even the most remote settings.

Medical devices, point of care labs, clinical analytics, telemedicine and remote patient monitoring connect into cloud-based patient management and reporting to extend existing care models to any place and time a clinician is available creating accurate and timely diagnosis across the full care continuum.

For emerging markets affected by the rural health crisis, CIB is seeing strong adoption as a platform delivering comprehensive exams using non-physician clinicians, with new business models to meet the needs of vast underserved areas.