1. Telehealth: Mobile Diabetic Remote
Monitoring in an urban African City
MoDiSe so far, so good
Dr Adesina Iluyemi DDPH
Co-founder
adesina@modise.org

2. MoDiSe: Our Focus
• MISSION: Collaborate with private sector
innovators / biotechnology researchers and local entrepreneurs
to facilitate the development of Point of
Care tools to prevent, diagnose and treat
neglected tropical and non-communicable diseases in the
developing world.
• www.modise.org
– Incorporated in Canada

3. Service integration
• Long-term conditions • Glucometer
• Diabetes
• Hypertension
• BP reader
• Self-diagnosis • Mobile phones
• Patient-Hospital 2- • Web-interface
way communication (doctors)

4. Patients’ uptake
• Satisfactory acceptance of ‘quantified-self’
– 64% on average compliance rate
• High perception of usefulness
• Possibility of behavioural change
– i.e. improved medication compliance

5. Service uptake
• Satisfactory hospital service integration
– Prompt emergency response
• Encouraging doctors’ acceptance
– Access to longitudinal clinical data
– Perceived clinical usefulness
– Fosters collaborative case management

6. Commercialisation
• Enrolled over 1000 clients
– Hospitals
– Employment-based schemes
– HMOs
• Planned National roll-out
• Subscription pricing

7. Concerns
• Ensuring compliance • Getting technologies
– Variation in ‘quantified – Strips churn & cost
self’ activity – Manual data inputs
• Providing feedback – Expensive devices
– Wary of patients’ • Engaging doctors
engagement
– Data-led clinical care
• Reinforcement &
Reassurance – Change management

8. MoDiSe so far ......
• Progress
– Technology Partners- North America & Europe
– Implementation Partners- Asia & Africa
• Challenges
– Emerging markets
– Inappropriate technologies
– Still not low-cost
– Reverse innovation
– Financial constraints

9. Acknowledgements
• Instrat Global Health Solutions
• University of Portsmouth

10. Telehealth: Mobile Diabetic Remote
Monitoring in an urban African City
MoDiSe so far, so good
Dr Adesina Iluyemi DDPH
Co-founder
adesina@modise.org