Oncomate: App for info sharing in oncology remedy.

Oncomate is an App designed for day by day use that gives most cancers sufferers on Pfizer therapies with content material on life-style suggestions, acts as a platform to document ‘emotions’ and generate reviews {that a} affected person can share with their well being care supplier, along with serving as a medicine capsule reminder thereby enhancing the general high quality of care.

Most cancers is an growing well being burden in sub-Saharan Africa with excessive prostate, breast and cervix most cancers charges.

An estimated 752,000 new most cancers instances (4 per cent of the worldwide complete) and 506,000 most cancers deaths occurred in sub-Saharan Africa in 2018 and the quantity is predicted to greater than double in 20 years. In Kenya, most cancers is the third main reason for loss of life after infectious and cardiovascular illnesses. From 2012 to 2018, the annual incidence of most cancers elevated from 37,000 to 47,887 new instances. Throughout the identical interval, annual most cancers mortality rose almost 16 per cent, from 28,500 to 32,987 cancer-related deaths.

Lengthy ready occasions and distance between sufferers’ properties and healthcare services are a part of the challenges confronted by sufferers residing with most cancers and an ethnographic research carried out by the College of KwaZulu-Natal confirmed that the gap from the hospital, or journey burden, negatively impacted these affected by most cancers. In Kenya, almost 23 per cent of sufferers don’t search healthcare resulting from a number of obstacles, together with excessive prices, the necessity to journey lengthy distances and lack of healthcare literacy.

This may be addressed by way of the adoption of digital well being. Telemedicine, the deployment of ICT to ship healthcare digitally, might be adopted to restrict bodily human interplay.

In the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, sufferers appreciated the digital medical expertise with out having to go away residence.

We’re delighted to help this trigger with the launch of a brand new App for info sharing in oncology treatment. The Oncomate app gives most cancers sufferers on Pfizer therapies with content material on life-style suggestions, acts as a platform to document ‘emotions’ and generates reviews {that a} affected person can share with their well being care supplier, along with serving as a medicine capsule reminder thereby enhancing the general high quality of care.

Digital well being options might reply some challenges that public hospitals face, similar to a scarcity of certified well being care professionals for added human assets, and gear failures.  Nevertheless, there are obstacles to implementing this in sub-Saharan Africa, together with urban-rural and gender divides in connectivity, entry to cellular units, low digital literacy, excessive value of web entry, and restricted entry to electrical energy.

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