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Quali Health

Posted by michaelianrm18

· Monday, October 1st, 2018

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Dr. Nthabiseng Legoete is the founder and CEO of Quali Health which is based out of South Africa. Dr. Legoete graduated in 2003 from the University of Pretoria and qualified as a doctor. At the time South Africa’s medical industry was very poor, and it continued its poor reputation for years. People who worked in South Africa were faced with a choice when they needed medical treatment which was either skip a day of work and wait in line at a medical treatment facility all day, or go to work and hope their problems go away. Multiple people would become terminally ill throughout this time period due to the fact that they couldn’t afford skipping a day of work. Dr. Legoete saw this as a major problem and decided to do something about it.

Dr. Legoete established Quali Health in May 2016 when she opened the first public facility in Diepsloot. Quali Health’s goal is to “improve access to primary healthcare in under-serviced communities.” The vision was simple. Solve the problem of choice between work and healthcare in South Africa. According to their website (qualihealth.co.za) their plan is to “provide effective primary healthcare to this segment in South Africa in the short term and Africa and other emerging markets in the medium to long term.” By 2017 they had expanded with three new facilities located in Alexandra, Tembisa, and Soweto.

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Quali Health begun with only 40 employees and has grown to over 200 employees across four locations. Dr. Legoete’s first facility was only receiving an average of 62 patients a day upon opening in May, but it didn’t take long to take off. By August of 2016, Quali Health had over 400 patients visiting the one facility every day. The impact on the poor communities around the facilities has been incredible. Residents now have access to affordable health care that also allows them to receive assistance in the morning and be out and off to work by mid-morning. These facilities also have created over 200 new jobs, the majority actually residents within the communities. Quali Health is also working with small businesses around the areas by offering catering, plumbing, and maintaining of the facilities. Quali Health also offers training opportunities for potential new staff. Dr. Legoete is making it her personal goal to change healthcare in Africa, and community by community she is slowly achieving her goal.

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Categories : Medical, Medicine

African Prison’s Project is Helping the Helpless

Posted by fisherkoons

· Sunday, September 16th, 2018

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Alexander McLean is the most inspiring man I have ever met. This past summer, I had the opportunity to talk with him at the life-changing Praxis Academy. He started our conversation by handing me a card with his name and contact information, encouraging me to reach out to him if I were to ever need anything. For the next hour or so, Alexander poured out his heart. At a young age, Alexander became extremely concerned about the social injustices taking place in Africa. He also grew an intense interest in the justice system. After he graduated high school in the UK, he spent time in Kampala volunteering at a hospice center. It was during this time in 2004 when Alexander felt called by God to begin African Prison’s Project. This ministry provides prisoners with basic health and education services, clothing, food, and legal assistance. About halfway through the conversation, the girl to my left hesitantly asked, “How do you see all of the injustice and traumatic experiences without losing hope and faith?”. His response drew tears from both himself and all of those listening. “The Lord is helping me feel emotions again. I cut them off for years and He is helping me become human again.” He spoke with a passion I have never experienced before, a passion of someone in complete surrender to the Lord. My friend Alexander is being the hands and feet of the Lord in places where it is needed most. He has inspired me to never question the Lord’s calling. This man truly loves.

Below are just a few of the high-profile awards Alexander and APP have received

UK Charity Volunteer of the Year 2006
UK Young Philanthropist of the Year 2007
Overall Winner, Beacon Prize for Philanthropy 2007
University of Nottingham Alumni of the Year 2007
UK Graduate of the Year 2007
Winner, Vodafone World of Difference Prize 2008
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (2008)
Ashoka Fellow
Time Top 30 Under 30

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Categories : Blog, Bootstrap Business, Education, Medicine, Social Entrepreneur, Social Justice

EchoMark and EchoSure

Posted by kiskaea1

· Monday, November 20th, 2017

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David Narrow has created substantial waves as an entrepreneur in the field of healthcare. At the mere age of 25, he is the CEO of Sonavex and creator of EchoMark and EchoSure.

David’s career with Sonavex began when he noticed that doctors would often have trouble locating previous surgical sites on patients. Locating these surgical sites is crucial for doctors if they are performing a follow-up procedure on a site. Usually the sites would be marked with implants that could be viewed later with an ultrasound. However, the implants that were currently being used were often difficult to accurately pinpoint in the ultrasounds. David realized that the healthcare industry needed a better implant that could be more easily seen and located with an ultrasound. So he started Sonavex and designed EchoMark.

EchoMark is a surgical implant made from a polymer material that is harmless to the human body. At the end of surgery, a doctor can insert EchoMark into the surgical site to mark it for later procedures. EchoMark’s unique shape causes the sound waves of an ultrasound to bounce off of it at multiple angles, enabling doctors and nurses to distinguish its location more quickly and accurately than previous surgical markers. If a second surgery in the area is not needed, EchoMark dissolves within 18-24 months after insertion, without needing to be removed. David’s product aptly filled an important need in healthcare, but it wasn’t long before he found a new need to tackle.

Another problem that medical professionals face is the occurrence of blood clots in patients who have undergone any surgical procedure in which veins or arteries are reconnected. Over 550,000 patients per year experience this type of surgery, which always involves the risk of blood clots. If a clot occurs and is not diagnosed and treated quickly, the patient may experience serious harm and have to undergo even more extensive surgeries. In response to this problem, David designed EchoSure, an ultrasound system that monitors patients’ newly connected blood vessels for clots. The system automatically alerts medical personnel of flow loss in a vessel. EchoSure’s intuitive interface allows medical professionals to use it without needing any training in ultrasound. As such, EchoSure acts as an early warning system against blood clots, allowing for rapid diagnosis and treatment before they can cause substantial damage.

David Narrow’s creativity and innovation to solve problems in healthcare have benefited numerous patients and have paved the way for even more valuable technology.

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Categories : Medical, Medicine, Millennial Entrepreneurs, Technology

Jolt — A New and Innovative Concussion Prevention

Posted by kiskaea1

· Tuesday, September 26th, 2017

· 21 Comments

Ben Harvatine, a wrestler and a junior MIT, had no idea that he had just suffered a concussion during one fateful practice. Unfortunately, neither did the MIT training staff. Ben continued to practice and compete, trying to push through what he thought was general fatigue or dehydration. When his dizziness persisted, he sought further treatment and was diagnosed with a concussion. This late diagnosis put his wrestling career on hold for a time and precipitated multiple hospitalizations. If Ben could have been diagnosed earlier, his injuries would likely have been much less severe.

While recuperating, Ben began to brainstorm ideas for how this type of situation could be prevented in the future. He and a friend, Seth Berg, eventually designed Jolt, a sensor that could be clipped on to virtually any type of sports headgear (helmet, hat, headband, etc.). Jolt would monitor head trauma during any physical activity and vibrate to alert the wearer of significant injuries. It would also send data and alerts via Bluetooth to an app on a smartphone, tablet, or other device. Jolt has a range of over 200 yards and a battery life of up to two months. Additionally, the app can monitor an unlimited number of sensors at once; and, another huge feature is that a Jolt sensor only costs $99.

This would allow sports players, coaches, or parents to monitor the head impacts sustained by the players. With the information Jolt provides, coaches, parents, trainers, etc. can know when their players suffer serious hits and decide whether the players should keep playing or stop. Jolt would act as an important prevention system to catch concussions before they worsen from further trauma.

In true entrepreneurial fashion, Ben Harvatine and Seth Berg found a need from personal experience and then brainstormed to solve that need. Now, their inventiveness is aiding players and coaches in the fight against concussions. Jolt is keeping players playing and protecting them in the process.

Jolt website — http://www.joltsensor.com/

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Categories : App, Athletics, Fitness, Medical, Medicine, Millennial Entrepreneurs, Technology

Fever Smart – Colin Hill, Aaron Goldstein

Posted by raabeej1

· Monday, September 25th, 2017

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In 2012, Colin Hill was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma right as he was about to start college at the University of Pennsylvania. Hill had to undergo extensive chemotherapy treatments, leaving him susceptible to life threatening infections, and a constant need to monitor his temperature to detect these infections as soon as possible. He would check his temperature consistently throughout the day, but at night, this became difficult. One night before he went to bed he had a normal temperature reading, but hours later he woke up with a dangerously high fever and was sent to the emergency room to treat the infection that he did not detect during the night.

He and other U Penn students, William Duckworth, Aaron Goldstein, and Becca Goldstein, began thinking of a solution to this problem. They developed Fever Smart, a smart device that constantly monitors the wearer’s body temperature, sends alerts to a smartphone/tablet/etc. via Bluetooth, as well as uploads the data to the cloud for access anywhere in the world. The device is only 32 mm long and is worn comfortably under the armpit. Although the hospital applications of Fever Smart are wide ranging, Fever Smart is marketed toward parents who want a way to effectively monitor their child’s temperature all throughout the night or when they are not present. Within months, they had a working prototype as well as FDA approval on the device. After an Indiegogo campaign for manufacturing funds raised 75% of its $40,000 goal in the first 24 hours, and then exceeded their goal with $65,000 raised, they launched Fever Smart in January of 2015.

Colin Hill and his group of entrepreneurs identified a significant problem through his own medical experiences, and the insight that those experiences gave them allowed them to formulate an innovative solution. None of the students had any medical background, and yet created a product that was a winner of Entrepreneur Magazine 2014, and can be utilized in the entirety of the medical field to improve healthcare. Fever Smart is just another example of a good idea coming from your personal experiences.

Resources:

http://www.businessinsider.com/fever-smart-patch-from-upenn-students-monitors-fevers-2014-8

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/09/prweb12181431.htm

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Categories : App, Medical, Medicine, Millennial Entrepreneurs, Smartphone, Technology

Another Drop Out Success

Posted by Paul Morrissey

· Friday, October 7th, 2016

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Another drop out become successful entrepreneur. Elizabeth Holmes dropped out of her sophomore year at Stanford to pursue her entrepreneurial dream. She dropped out as a chemical engineering major to create a blood diagnosing startup. The problem of correctly diagnosing was the problem that Elizabeth noticed. Too many people were either having to wait hours for expensive testing to get done at hospitals or they were incorrectly diagnosing themselves online. The company, Theranos, created a mini blood testing lab that is the size of a microwave. It is portable and does a majority of the tests that usually takes a large lab to do, with only small samples of blood. This method gets results faster and at a fraction of the price. With this, the company even innovated the finger prick device into something that requires less blood and gives a more accurate result. not only this, but all the devices are being produced in the USA to create American jobs.

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If you have ever watched an Episode of Grey’s Anatomy, there will usually be someone complaining about labs taking too long or patients freaking out about the cost of taking too many tests. This product innovates the entire lab process into one device. It is like a computer that blood is an input, and it condenses all the tests into one place. My opinion is that they are focused on creating a cheaper method, so why aren’t the producing in the cheapest way possible, overseas? What are your thoughts on this?

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Categories : Great Ideas, Medical, Medicine