Iryo featured on MedtechEngine

Our Refugee project (providing a modern electronic health record system for refugee camps in the Middle East), which we are working on in collaboration with Dubai-based telemedicine company Ver2 and the non-profit organisation Walk With me, has been featured on MedTech Engine — an online platform for people in medtech offering insight, resources and connections.

Refugees are one of the most vivid examples of the importance of medical data being accessible to the patient first. All across the world, patients currently have little or no power over access to their own records. Furthermore, medical data is scattered across different institutions among different care providers — all struggling with a lack of interoperability. Medical experts consequently do not have an accurate picture of their patients. Doctors have no option but to work with incomplete information about an individual’s medical history, medication and needs when treating people abroad, for instance. Applying blockchain technology could change everything.

As featured in the article, the initial use of the Iryo system will begin in refugee camps located throughout the Beqaa Valley of Lebanon, soon followed by implementation in other countries. Over the coming year, Ver2 will expand the service scope to include teleconsultations, education, physician support and more. As for Iryo, this is only the beginning. Access to medical data by patient first is, after all, a much-needed global paradigm shift.

Read the full story on MedtechEngine.