Connect For Life removes barriers between patients and healthcare workers by allowing healthcare workers to receive real-time feedback on their patients. The result? You have the information you need, when and where you need them.
The success of Connect for Life is made possible by closely collaborating with local partners and governments. By leveraging technology and forging these partnerships, Connect for Life continues to expand, with on-going implementations in India, Philippines and Uganda and more starting soon!
Whether your patients live in remote locations, face social-cultural pressures or simply exhibit low health literacy—overcoming these barriers is key to improving health outcomes.
Connect for Life uses mobile phones to extend the reach of a healthcare worker and patient, which makes it easier for the patient to access quality care, even in the most remote villages.
Connect for Life empowers and educates patients through behavior change, using simple reminders, adherence feedback, motivational messages, symptom management tips and relevant information.
Using a mobile phone to privately access information through a PIN allows patients to circumvent situations where they might face stigma and social pressures.
Using simple communications like text messaging and interactive voice response, allows patients to better manage their health (including the importance of medication adherence) and understand what their diagnosis means.
Whether you face time constraints, limited access to patient data or the challenge of integrating records in remote settings overcoming these barriers is critical to providing effective healthcare solutions.
"It is the dream of any healthcare worker to get additional support to make an impact, not only to the patients, but also to healthcare workers and policy makers."
- Prof. Elly Katabira, Prof of Medicine, College of Health Sciences,
Makerere University Uganda
Connect for Life bridges the distance between patients and healthcare professionals, promoting inclusion and equal treatment, regardless the location of patients.
Providers can use Connect for Life to access real-time feedback on their patients between visits including medication adherence, missed appointments or symptom reports to create a more seamless continuum of care and improve their patient's visit.
The Connect for Life interface includes a tool that provides an instant overview on relevant patient information, including integrated electronic medical records and lab results, all uploaded to the dashboard in real-time.
With a real-time feed of patient data, providers can make instantaneous adjustments to their treatment plans to account for lapses in medication or abnormal lab results and customize their health tips accordingly.
Connect for Life can be customized to address your healthcare challenge, by supporting a broad range of diseases and disorders.
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Connect For Life removes the confrontation with stigma and the challenges of remote access by allowing you to communicate directly with patients any time, anywhere.
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Prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV and improve Maternal and Child Health within vulnerable communities in India.
The collaborative program utilizes locally-relevant approaches to educate pregnant women with know-how to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission. Leveraging the unique Connect for Life approach, HIV positive pregnant women are enrolled in the program and followed for 18 months post-delivery across two states in India addressing the disease burden in private and public healthcare facilities.
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Use effective interventions to drive human behavior change and improve health literacy to optimize disease prevention and treatment outcome for people living with HIV.
In 2015, Connect for Life implemented its first flagship program in Uganda in partnership with the Ugandan Ministry of Health and the Infectious Diseases Institute, focusing on HIV, TB, and maternal and child health. The program was launched in two clinics and is now available to all patients in the Infectious Diseases Institute as part of clinical practice.
* The person in this photograph is not a real patient.
Significantly reduce the burden of HIV in The Philippines by understanding the factors that affect patient adherence to medications, as well as assessing efficacy and availability of current care.
The diverse geography of the Philippines often limits access to healthcare services.
Better interconnectivity between health providers
could reduce variations in quality of care across the islands.
Connect for Life offers treating phisicians a clinical information system to further
engage with their patients and offers patients the means to stay connected
across remote locations.
IAS 2019, Mexico City, Mexico: Sustainability of mHealth interventions: Patients’ preferences and willingness to pay user fees for mHealth ART adherence support tool in resource limited settings
CROI 2019, Seattle, USA: Call for Life Uganda, An RCT using interactive voice response for PLHIV on ART
IAS 2018, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Interactive Voice Response (IVR) messages and reminders increase completion of early infant diagnosis in a private sector PMTCT intervention in Southern India
IAS 2020, Virtual: Reaching the Third 90 in the Philippines: Outcomes of the Connect for Life mHealth Adherence Support Project
Connect for Life allows healthcare professionals to receive real-time feedback on their patient via feedback loops.
That means healthcare professionals can track their patient's daily medication intake and take appropriate action to reinforce adherence or motivate behavioral change.
And healthcare professionals can track patient data, like missed appointments or symptom reports and take appropriate action to motivate healthy behaviors.
Everything is captured on an electronic dashboard that allows the provider to easily integrate patient data, messaging, medical records and lab results in a single, accessible place.
Connect For Life was designed for real world performance by our team of medical and technical experts.
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