The company behind the app says it helps more people get qualified medical attention without having to pay for it in cash.
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00:18 For me it's an achievement because sometimes when I want to go to an hospital for a phantom pain,
00:25 I need to have some money for the consultation and everything.
00:29 But with the app, I only ask Dr. Nick if I can see him, like, through the app,
00:34 if I can see him in his available hours.
00:37 And he was like, "Yeah, you can just come. We'll solve that with the app on us."
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00:49 When the patient logs on our platform, he has two choices.
00:52 Either to take part of our data monetization program,
00:55 or just simply pay via M-Pesa, pay cash, and proceed to book a consultation.
01:01 If they choose to be part of our data monetization, which again, our data is all anonymized,
01:07 they will earn at least 33%, or a third of their earnings from our data set.
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01:24 I have been using this application for about two years, and it has really changed the way I practice.
01:32 I am now able to put my available times on the application,
01:37 and the patient on the other side is able to see the time.
01:40 This has improved the time management such that the patient doesn't have to wait for too long,
01:45 and now I am also able to earn through the app.
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01:58 What would be the holy grail here in drug development is a drug that is tailored specifically to the needs of an individual person.
02:07 And this personalization of drugs could be achieved through big data approaches,
02:16 through techniques of machine learning, so AI technologies could be used here.
02:21 But this again requires this huge amount of individual health data.
02:27 Once it's anonymized, that means we'll never know what the encounters are only between the doctor and the patient,
02:33 and we cannot trace back to which particular patient is diagnosed with what.
02:38 The algorithm is only kicking out the information we are searching.
02:42 So let's say a data customer is searching for specific things like malaria patterns happening in certain sides of the country,
02:50 then SNAC-Health is able to show all these analytics.
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03:02 Blockchain technology can be secure because it's immutable, it's tamper-proof, it's pseudonymous,
03:11 and then there's the cryptographic authentication.
03:14 However, it's not foolproof, and it is specific to the type of blockchain.
03:18 Ethical standards when it comes to healthcare are particularly high as you're dealing with vulnerable segments of society
03:24 or those in a vulnerable state or a vulnerable state of life.
03:28 So the first thing I would advise is to have accurate rhetoric around the capabilities.
03:35 That has a key ethical consideration because people download it and think this app promises them the world.
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