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Last update : 29 jan 2021
Helium Health
Nigeria
E-health & well-being
E-health | Electronic Medical Record
Regions impacted
West Africa | North Africa | East Africa
Year of establishment
2015
Number of employees
87
Description

Helium Health gives healthcare providers a comprehensive suite of technology solutions dedicated to managing every aspect of healthcare delivery, from electronic medical records and telemedicine, to administration and financial management.

Maturity level
Series A
Curent investor(s)
  • Tencent
  • VentureSouq
  • YCombinator
  • The World Bank Gem Project
  • Western Technology Investments
  • AAIC
Support(s) via hubs, incubations, programs
  • YCombinator, Summer – 2017
  • Google Launchpad – 2018
Awards and honors
  • Recognition by the Nigerian Presidency – 2016
  • 9Mobile Prize for Technology – 2016
  • Forbes 30 Under 30 – 2018
  • CNBC Upstart 100 – 2019
  • Africa Netpreneur Prize Top 50 – 2019
Last update
  • 25 March 2021

Helium Health – A software to improve the hospital-patient relationship

East Africa, Nigeria, North Africa, West Africa
Digital medical record | E-health | Medical record management system
Helium Health has set up a series of tools to respond to the flaws in the health system in Africa - Photo credit Helium Health - RR

The Nigerian startup Helium Health conceived a digital medical record management system that includes a billing and payment solution and a patient management system to improve efficiency and health funding in emerging countries.

The issue

To digitalize the hospital-patient relationship to improve hospital efficiency

Hospitals in emerging countries suffer from intern management like the loss of patients’ medical records, defaults of payment, and paperwork burden. It results in a decrease in the efficiency in those facilities.

The solution

A data collection system in the hospital world
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Founded in 2016, the Nigerian startup Helium Health conceived offline software with easy access dedicated to hospitals. “We launched Helium Health to fight against the absence of reliable and usable data concerning health in emerging markets, Tito OVIA, co-founder, explains. Africa represents 24% of the global morbidity burden but contributes only to 1% of the worldwide government spending on health care. It is mostly because of a lack of data. It’s like trying to convince an investor to give you money without knowing the size of your market, the efficiency of your financial performances.”

The stakeholders

The three Nigerian entrepreneurs Adegoke OLUBUSI, Tito OVIA, and Dimeji SOFOWORA, initiate Helium Health.

Tito OVIA, head of the public sector, graduated in biomedical sciences at Manchester University and worked for the national agency to combat AIDS in Lagos.

Adegoke OLUBUSI, the CEO, is an engineer and manager who graduated from the State Morgan University and then the John Hopkins University.

Finally, his classmate in high school, Dimeji SOFOWORA, the COO, is graduated from the law school Queen Mary in London.

The impact

Better intern management in hospital for better health result
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Helium Health’s digital solution improves incomes and extends hospital funding while monitoring public health indicators. All of this improves patient care and operational capacities of hospitals. Since its launch in Nigeria in 2016, the startup extends its field of action to 3 more western African countries and becomes the biggest provider of e-health solutions in Africa. “More than 400 care facilities and 6000 professionals use our solutions to cure hundreds of thousands of patients each month,” Tito OVIA said. Helium Health raised 10 million dollars on May the 7th to extend its presence in North and Eastern Africa by the end of the year.

Digital Africa's perspective

Issues of digitalization in the health sector in Africa are not little. The startup Helium Health managed to face this challenge in Nigeria, allowing big urban hospitals and rural clinics to centralize and automatize their process. This solution leads to the defragmentation of the health care system to increase its efficiency and aims – thanks to data collection in real-time- to spread governmental decisions in health. Helium Health is the fusion between e-health and data to improve medical staff and patient lives significantly.

Find out more:

  • La santé numérique, une chance pour l’Afrique, L’Usine Santé
  • 5 projets qui font progresser l’e-Santé en Afrique, AFD
  • Pandemic is drawing attention to promise of digital health technologies, World Bank
  • The mHealth opportunity in Sub-Sahara Africa, Deloitte
  • Covid 19 : L’Afrique joue la carte de l’e-Santé, Le Point Afrique

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