Quro Medical (visit website)
Industry — Health, Wellness & Fitness
Location — Johannesburg, Gauteng
Founded — 2018

The future of health care in Africa
Health care in Africa remains the worst in the world, with a lot of challenges facing health workers. As a result, the delivery of quality services seems unachievable. Consequently, we experience a lot of preventable deaths that could have been avoided with better technology in place. Technology is a major tool to help Africa address its health care challenges and see new innovations.
In the last few years, some innovative ideas have sprung up to address health care challenges in Africa. Quro Medical is one of them, Africa’s first tech-driven healthcare at home company. It uses healthcare technology to analyse real-time data to monitor patient health. Also, providing constant healthcare monitoring, outside of acute hospital care, for patients that need support remotely.

Dr Vuyane Mhlomi, Zikho Pall and Rob Cornish founded Quro in 2018 with the goal to digitize the whole process of providing healthcare. Dr Mhlomi grew up with parents who had chronic health issues and spent a lot of time waiting to see doctors and specialists. Later, he studied medicine at the University of Oxford and on returning, founding Quro became his response to an ailing healthcare system.
There just have to be an alternative solution to hospitalization. Sadly, the Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for digitally-enabled home-based healthcare solutions. Front line health workers were overwhelmed, patients were turned back, those were our reality. The healthcare sector across the globe experienced extreme pressure with the COVID-19 pandemic and desperately needs digital solutions to ease many of the problems.
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Additionally, traditional hospitals are experiencing excessive demand, placing strain on bed capacity and hindering effective patient treatment and recovery. However, research has shown that acute patient care at home can lead to better clinical outcomes. Also, lower cost and improved patient experience. This makes Quro’s solution groundbreaking! Certainly, monitoring patients remotely will be a game-changer for the health industry in Africa. Also, leading to better productivity and care.
Quro Medical’s solution combines software and clinical excellence to manage acutely ill patients in the comfort of their homes. Also, Healthcare is changing; healthcare professionals are facing the pressure to provide care at a reduced cost, without sacrificing quality and patient satisfaction. It is worth noting that hospitals are increasingly proving to be sub-optimal environments for treatment and recovery for many patients. And also, hospitals are not a one-size-fits-all solution for patients.

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A little more about how Quro delivers its solution…
It offers 24-hour remote vital sign monitoring in real-time to patients in the comfort of their own homes. Also, Its software leverages artificial intelligence and machine learning as well as key physiological data of patients in order to detect and predict the health status of a patient.
They achieve continuous 24-hour monitoring wirelessly through biosensors attached to the patient. The chest biosensor communicates via Bluetooth to a relay device, which is a customised mobile phone. Afterwards, stream all the information to Quro Medical 24-hour command centre, operated by clinical professionals. As a result, they are able to mobilise the necessary intervention for that patient at the earliest sign of clinical deterioration.
Additionally, they offer virtual oversight or ward rounds and consultations for these patients by doctors and nurses; this ranges from telephonic to video-enabled check-ins with the help of a comprehensive monitoring kit given to the patient. It comprises monitoring hardware, relay device, power bank, plug and play, full internet capability, video calling capability
They partnered with MTN to ensure that patients don’t need to use their own data or have wifi access. If there is decent network coverage, they can provide remote patient monitoring.
On a final note, Introduction of chest bio-sensor is a fundamental transformation for Africa’s healthcare. Eventually, It leads to a better health care delivery, reduced cost of normal hospital and improved clinical outcome for patients. Also, lowering the risk of hospital acquired infections,go in for one thing and come out with something else. Innovative start-ups like this are a win for the Africa continent and we need more of them.
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