About our project

Asclepieia Health tools facilitate a culture of health data management and sharing which can create a tremendous impact on patient care and health outcomes, particularly in primary care settings. The application of Asclepieia Health in rural settings has the potential to transform how hospitals collect, manage, store, use, and share health information.

Asclepieia Health helps remote communities coordinate care, improve disease surveillance, target
health education, and compile regional data, all activities that improve health.

Unfortunately, the limited information available on health IT adoption in small, rural hospitals
provides only modest guidance on how to manage the unique financial, structural and human
resources that affect the successful implementation of health IT. To describe the depth and
breadth of challenges experienced by small, rural hospitals, and what strategies to employ to
overcome them.

Coordinated healthcare in any community is currently a very costly initiative involving multiple parties. Underserved communities and those in poverty stricken regions are vastly more challenged for general access to eHealth (ICT- Information and Communication Technology in Health) tools and resources. They are also at much greater risk in disaster situations.

Most health care programs in lower socio-economic communities and developing countries manage their information with simple spreadsheets or small, poorly designed databases … if anything at all (OpenHealth News Oct. 2012). Critical health information is buried in thick medical files, and facilities are plagued with severe shortages of those who can heal (Rockefeller Foundation Report). The World Health Organization (WHO) recently noted that many countries, particularly those in Africa, will not develop economically and socially without substantial improvements in the health of their people.

While eHealth initiatives have the potential to transform health systems, reduce costs and change the role of hospitals, there are still much needed efforts to ensure such services and infrastructure are being deployed in the most susceptible or critically affected communities.

We believe hospitals in underserved communities, and especially in developing countries, should be beneficiaries of the eHealth revolution; not the victims of a fragmented software industry, infrastructure constraints, trickle down philosophies or politically defective healthcare policies.

The current state of affairs is that despite various initiatives, software vendors typically charge thousands of dollars for implementation and ongoing monthly service fees for hospital and integrated health management products. Solution options are limited to very few vendors keeping prices high and prohibitive for many community clinics and hospitals serving low income populations. Secure data-exchange across regions and borders is still an issue. Moreover, those in control of critical services and infrastructure outside the purview of hospitals (e.g. telecom, power, transport, etc.) influence how efficiently the needs of health institutions will be served. Any open eHealth solution needs to address these variables.

The vision for Asclepieia Health is to serve clinics, hospitals and communities in need by providing effective Open eHealth services and by leveraging the skills and intellectual capital of a global network of engineers, practitioners, service providers, sponsors, NGO’s and other parties.

Asclepieia’s goal is to deliver added impact to emerging open eHealth programs. We provide much needed technology and infrastructure to improve Hospital management programs in various regions that cannot otherwise afford to pilot such trials.

At the core of our solution is an ad-hoc networking and customized software-as-a-service approach to front and back-end data-exchange. A user friendly product is being developed to optimize engagement and deliver currently lacking logistics automation, administrative processing, evaluation metrics and integrated patient data and digital medical records management; all via secure, conditional access levels between Hospitals, Administrators, patients and their physicians, to enhance the quality of their health care.

Asclepieia’s Hospital Management SaaS extends the reach of health management programs by customizing and making them accessible through a SaaS network and connected devices including low-cost tablets. The service will be available on multiple devices and a first beta deployment is being planned in South Eastern Europe and Asia.

In order to promote awareness of our efforts, we decided to deploy a demo site and give everyone an opportunity to login via various accounts to see the actual platform and its functionality.

http://asclepieia.eu/siteia/ (This is a local Hospital in the Community of Siteia, Crete)

Its important that those who decide to support our efforts see our work.

The contribution from these funding will help enhance several integrated “modules” that each address a specific process or function in the work-flow (e.g. BloodBank, Lab, Pharmacy, Patient Portal, Medical Imaging, etc.). The next phase of software development will extend the ability for practitioners to track issued prescriptions/medicines; and a robust database to manage regulatory, ICD9/ICD10 Global Diagnostic Classifications, Accreditation, Preventative Care Procedures and Billing/Accounting/Reimbursement Policy Management Procedures.

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