Sunday, July 14, 2019

MEDICA – Solution to improve primary health care services in Sri Lanka

New start up Bluevoke Holdings Private Limited with the branded as MEDICA is trying to revolutionise the primary healthcare industry in Sri Lanka building an eco-system of general practitioners, dispensaries, pharmacies and laboratories though a cloud application.

MEDICA is a cloud-based patient management and prescription management platform for doctors. From patient registration to patient walking out with the medicines from a pharmacy is managed within MEDICA.

Doctors with MEDICA will register all Patients trough receptionist or nursing staff tablet application as well as channelling. Once the Patient visit the doctor, the MEDICA doctor will make the diagnosis and type is the prescription to issue a printed prescription as well as send the digital prescription directly patient’s smart phone application.

The Patient then can visit any pharmacy with the printed prescription as well as get enhance experience at a MEDICA enabled Pharmacy where the patient can search and send the prescription prior to collect drugs at the special counter.

MEDICA enabled Doctors; Equipped with a laptop with MEDICA desktop application and a printer to print prescriptions as well as the system will send a digital prescription to Patient smartphone application.

MEDICA enabled pharmacy,laboratory; Integrate current Systems with MEDICA over the internet to scan and verify MEDICA QR code.

Bluevok CEO Ravi Abeysekera said, “the concept for MEDICA was initiated, simply to provide a printed prescription to patients reduce errors made by pharmacies. Today we have evolved the application to build a network of doctors, pharmacies and laboratories to improve primary care in Sri Lanka. MEDICA powered patient can see all the past prescriptions, diagnosis and reports in one smart phone app and share with any MEDICA enabled doctor or Health care service.”

With the ICT initiative in Sri Lanka government hospitals too are progressing into EMR solution for hospital management including at the Out Patients Department (OPD). In hospitals such as Avissavela, Dompe and Karapitiya the OPD has a system to register patients as well as provide printed prescriptions. MEDICA is planned to be one of the biggest digital disruptors in the primary health care industry. MEDICA give the power to visit multiple doctors seamlessly and share history. The cloud-based system will give access to any MEDICA enabled to doctors to view patient history shared by the Patient.

MEDICA will be a single platform to manage patient records, investigation reports and secure prescriptions eliminating current practice of error prone paper prescriptions. 

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