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Access to quality healthcare is the only way to maintain a healthy and productive population. But millions in remote communities across low- and middle-income countries face barriers to basic medical services.

Among these challenges, a critical issue stands out: the lack of efficient, reliable systems to manage patient information. Paper-based records are still the norm, leading to misdiagnoses, delayed treatments, and lost health data.

Many US-based non-profit organizations and local clinicians will bring care into remote villages with mobile outreaches. They will bring a small team of medical professionals and volunteers into the remote communities, and pop-up a small clinic.

Without any digital records, each patient must recount their entire medical history to the provider, and try to remember all of the medications and treatments previously prescribed. In most cases, patients cannot remember everything, and they focus instead on immediate problems like a headaches, a stomach issue, or other acute illness. Chronic or long-term illnesses are difficult to treat without consistent records to highlight illnesses like hypertension, diabetes or other non-communicable diseases.

While patient outcomes are a key reason to use a digital system, sustainability of the clinic is also important. Many health centers and mobile outreaches need to shut down due to lack of funding without a sustainable income from patients, inefficiencies, or hard-to-manage inventories.

We are in a unique position right now! With a growing global movement toward health equity and advancements in digital health technologies, we have an unprecedented opportunity to make a lasting impact. 

The biggest barrier to technological innovation in remote areas where we work in Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia is a lack of access to electricity and the internet. But we focused on this problem as our #1 architecture challenge, unlike all other EMRs in this space.

BackpackEMR shares data among all of the clinic station devices without access to electricity or internet, which is perfect for remote mobile clinics or health centers where the internet or electricity go out during the day.

Our innovative architecture uses a local wifi radio signal that all devices jump onto. The "secret sauce" to data-sharing is embedded within our BackpackEMR App. When each device "sees" each other, they immediately start to share their data to keep all of the devices up-to-date on all new data.

This means that when a patient is registered, that registration profile is shared immediately with the devices at the other clinic stations. So when the patient is seen by the provider, their profile and vitals are visible.

An EMR alone is a good start, but we are partnering with key healthcare companies targeting the same remote communities as BackpackEMR. Our EMR's impact is amplified when paired with other innovations like tele-health specialists, medical supplies companies, personal health records, diagnostic tools, and decision support.

Another example is Global Vision 2020 who provide a low-cost and easy-to-use vision diagnostic tool to determine a patient's exact prescription. A set of color-coded right and left lenses allows the vision provider to pull the exact prescription lenses and pop them into the GV2020 universal frames. These end up costing less than $5/glasses, and anyone can be trained to provide the exam! GV2020's innovative system is integrated with BackpackEMR's vision tools.

While paper is our biggest competitor, other EMR companies are operating in our target regions. Competitors have developed solutions that are either cloud-based, requiring consistent internet access, or client-server based, requiring consistent electricity, expensive local servers, and a full-time IT resource to configure, maintain, and support the solution.

Additionally, other solutions focus on larger hospitals, which are too complex for the smaller, rural clinics we target, or focus on community health workers (CHW), which typically include wizard-like protocols to walk CHWs through basic health assessments.

And one big differentiator we've seen in the market is our customer support. Most EMR providers struggle to give clinicians personal support when they need it. Our team is ready at any time , welcoming questions from medical teams because we know that if a team is struggling in the field, we could likely resolve the issue in a matter of minutes rather than having the team struggle for hours or longer on their own.

"It's been exciting to be able to lift the level of care by capturing comprehensive clinic visits with BackpackEMR."

DOUG SMITH | Mildred Smith Mission Health Center

"Before we started using BackpackEMR, managing chronic patients on mobile clinics was a guessing game. But now by using BackpackEMR, we are able to provide excellent care, now including follow-up care and historical data. By demonstrating that excellent care is our top priority, we have built more trust between us and the people we serve."

KRISTEN HUNT | Mission of Hope Haiti

We have focused on some key partnerships and opportunities this past year, and are excited to execute our plans in 2025. Your investment would directly impact these projects and help us to roll out a pilot in Uganda, and develop new features for our work with VIEBEG Medical (in Rwanda, Kenya, and Democratic Republic of the Congo) and AHSIA (Adventist Healthcare Services - InterAmerica).

Forward-looking projections are not guaranteed.

We intend to build out our sales, marketing, implementation, and support playbook in Uganda, and then take our learnings, and apply them to additional countries. We'll start with other East African regions, and look to expand in other key areas where we have built-in networks like Haiti and India.

We have been preparing for our pilot in Uganda for several months, and are ready to kick off our implementation in January 2025! Our minimum investment of $50k will cover the costs of our pilot.

Our stretch goal of $300-500k would unlock an additional $450k of investment. That total investment would provide us with 12-18 months of runway with funding for US-based sales, marketing and support, along with much-needed product features for clinic management, and our in-country sales and implementation team in Uganda.

Any amount of investment will help us toward our goal of supporting medical teams in emerging economies!

**THANK YOU to the many non-profit groups who provided footage for our video!

• Flourish Collective
• Friends of Barnabas
• LifeLink International
• Mission-Haiti
• Seacoast Churches
• Soaring Unlimited
• Waves of Health