DiagnoseMe Africa to provide diagnotics treatment tools for health care providers
DiagnoseMe Africa, a platform that provides diagnostics and treatment tools for healthcare providers in Africa has been unveiled in Nigeria.
The online platform is also a patient specific dynamic digitalized problem solving platform with numerous advantages made available to both patients and doctors across the 36 states in Nigeria.
The free doctor portal is said to provide one of the most innovative tests, improve patients’ experience and save costs while also getting to the route of their ailments.
Speaking during the unveil of the DiagnoseMe Africa, Ani Nchiewe, a medical adviser at Stacks Diagnostics, said the platform affords doctors the unparalleled ability to improve healthcare service delivery and uptake in Nigeria, eliminating certain avoidable needs for referral abroad for test not usually done in Nigeria.
Nchiewe further explained that on the platform, there is availability of tools that help improve precision medicine based on personalized therapy, adding that hindsight of the genetic makeup of the patient helps to eliminate 50-50% errors in patient management, ultimately ensures high success rate in cases such as cancers breast, prostate, colon, autoimmune and hormonal diseases.
More importantly is that it improves the delivery of telemedicine and explores the use of ICT in health care service delivery.
According to Nchiewe, benefits for patients include “Ease of HC service delivery and uptake. Patients can now find specialist on the platform to provide specific, targeted patient centered care, less stress, saves time, Improved Patient doctor’s navigation.
“Create a provider account on DiagnoseMe provider portal, Order and pay for tests in test section of account, DiagnoseMe will pick up tests (in some geographies, providers may take tests to partner locations), Diagnostic Experts analyze your samples in one of our CLIA-certified laboratories. You will receive a prompt notifying you that the test result is ready and you can view it on your secure provider portal account,” she explained.
Speaking on the idea behind the online diagnotics platform, Abasi – Ene-Obong, founder and CEO of Stacks Diagnostics said the platform will partner with health stakeholders to provide solutions that actually work, adding that the company is Nigeria’s first molecular diagnostics and personalized Medicine Company.
“We provide genetic testing services and other hard-to-access services to providers and patients, using a centralized lab approach, and an online marketplace for ordering tests, receiving test results, confirming diagnosis, and referring patients for secondary and tertiary care,” Ene-Obong added.
He assured that some of the services the platform offers directly to consumers consist of hereditary breast, ovarian and endometrial cancer test, cervical cancer test, pharmacogenetics (drug metabolism) tests, non-invasive prenatal test (Down syndrome, Patau syndrome, Edwards syndrome, sickle cell, amongst others), early detection cancer screen with CTC and paternity tests.
Solutions the platform promises to deliver to providers include breast cancer test, ovarian cancer test, cervical cancer test (high risk HPV panel and cervical smear), non-invasive prenatal test, early detection cancer screen with CTC and ctDNA (liquid biopsy) and drug selection based on cancer gene and protein expression.
Other solutions to providers include detection of mutant resistant genes in cancers, Hepatitis B and C viral load, genotyping, amongst others, solid and blood cancers (biomarkers and genetic oncology) allergy – food, inhalants, medicine and DNA fingerprinting – paternity, transplants.
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