GHIC 2021 – We had the opportunity to present a session at the Global Health Innovation Conference 2021, sponsored by Unite for Sight and Northwestern University, on April 8-11. Our session “Join Us! Virtual Support for Unlimited High-Quality Care” highlighted 2 of our partners, Blessings International and the African Christian Fellowship (ACF), and focused on our joint work to provide virtual care to rural communities.
Blessings International
In our pre-recorded video, Barry Ewy, CEO of Blessings International, talked about exporting high-quality, verified medications to medical teams providing healthcare in low-middle income countries (LMICs) during COVID-19. Counterfeit and substandard drugs are a growing problem in several LMICs, and Blessings is able to ensure quality medications by exporting directly to the medical professionals overseas.
Blessings International measures their impact by a factor called their “Human Treatment Value”. It consists of 2 numbers aggregated together to estimate the # of lives touched. The first value is the the Daily Treatment Value, which is the # of days a medication helps a patient – for example, any daily medication indicates a day of treatment per pill. The second value is a Curative Treatment, which is a medication meant to cure, such as Malaria medications or antibiotics. Over the past fiscal year, Blessings had a Human Treatment Value of 95 Million, which translates to an estimated 4 Million lives touched!
African Christian Fellowship
Dr. Joyce Olutade with the ACF-South Region and Victor Nwoji with the ACF-South Region’s Samuel Town Clinic in Sierra Leone also joined the discussion to talk about working with Blessings and BackpackEMR to bring virtual care to rural communities in Sierra Leone, despite ACF doctors’ inability to join the mobile clinics in-person. They highlighted the ability for doctors in the US and in Nigeria to view patient details from their homes using BackpackEMR’s web portal, and to give feedback to local health workers on diagnosis and treatment in real-time. The remote doctors were also able to see the list of medications that Blessings exported and that were available to prescribe to patients from within BackpackEMR, as well.
We are very thankful to both of our partners for contributing to this video and for partnering with us on virtual care. We can’t wait to collaborate again!
And, if you provide any of the following services, and would like to partner with us to provide virtual care, please reach out to us: Solutions@BackpackEMR.com
- Rural Medical Teams
- Virtual Patient Chart Reviews
- AI and Predictive Analytics / Decision Support
- Portable Diagnostic Devices
You can watch our session HERE!
