Audere, a digital health non-profit developing HealthPulse™ solutions to advance health equity, today announced, in partnership with Fionet Inc, the delivery of HealthPulse AI embedded in Fionet Suite, a mobile health platform for primary care, to be used by over 50,000 community health workers (CHWs) and over 1,000 Health Posts in Rwanda.
“To partner with the Rwanda Ministry of Health is to partner with excellence in many forms – their vision, knowhow, talent, and dedication made them leaders, with whom it is motivating and productive to work. We thank Audere for making outstanding AI practical for primary care.”
Rwanda’s Ministry of Health has recently rolled out the joint solution to 2,000 CHWs across 800 villages in 4 of Rwanda’s 5 provinces, with countrywide scale-up continuing to proceed over the next 12 months.
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“Rwanda Ministry of Health, and stakeholders including the Rwanda Biomedical Centre, is nationally scaling a mobile health platform powered with AI functionality. This technological empowerment of frontline health workers reflects the Ministry’s mission to provide equitable, affordable, and high-quality healthcare services that enhance the well-being of all Rwandans and strengthen our health system.”
– Sylvere Mugumya, Rwanda Ministry of Health Business Analyst; President Rwanda Health Informatics Alliance (RHIA)
Fionet entered into an agreement with the Rwanda Ministry of Health to nationally provide Fionet Suite, an integrated, primary care digital infrastructure consisting of guided case management, mobile EMR, point-of-care testing, and large-scale data capture and analytics. HealthPulse AI has been integrated into Fionet Suite’s point-of-care testing module, ensuring that a wide array of diagnostic results can be trusted.
“To partner with the Rwanda Ministry of Health is to partner with excellence in many forms – their vision, knowhow, talent, and dedication made them leaders, with whom it is motivating and productive to work. We thank Audere for making outstanding AI practical for primary care.”
– Dr. Michael Greenberg, Founder and CEO, Fionet
In parallel with Fionet’s efforts, Audere, in partnership with Jhpiego, engaged in a study in Rwanda demonstrating the value of AI-enabled digital tools supporting CHWs administering malaria rapid diagnostic tests. In the study, through the use of HealthPulse AI solutions, Jhpiego and Audere observed a 72% improvement in CHW ability to read faint lines and were able to identify 9% of the CHW study participants that required additional supportive supervision.
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“We are privileged to work with Fionet and a progressive Ministry of Health to scale AI solutions in Rwanda. Through AI, we are delivering an impactful quality assurance tool that provides the Ministry actionable insights into the use of rapid tests, along with an understanding of how to best support their frontline health workers.
Based on the successes of both Fionet and Audere in Rwanda, the promise of AI-powered healthcare solutions, and the approval of the Rwandan MoH, Fionet and Audere partnered to integrate HealthPulse AI into Fionet Suite for deployment in Rwanda. HealthPulse AI augments Fionet Suite with AI-powered interpretation of rapid diagnostic tests, enabling quality-assurance checks, disease surveillance, and supportive supervision for community health workers, health posts, and facility-based healthcare professionals.
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Source – businesswire
