Meet MedEnhanz, a startup gunning to create an authoritative pool of medical information relevant to Nigeria and sub-Saharan Africa.
Dokun Dairo, a physician, and Wole Faroun, an entrepreneur, partnered and launched MedEnhanz in 2012. Its flagship product, a webapp at medenhanz.com has been live since. The firm says its goal is to “empower clinicians and other healthcare providers with cutting-edge knowledge to manage their patients through instant access to current world-class content such as clinical practice guidelines and algorithms, disease conditions, clinical trials, and drug information all at once.”
Medenhanz.com curates information on clinical trials, guidelines, drug information, diseases and conditions and also runs a drug interaction module that examines how drugs interact in order to aid informed prescription by physicians.
Skimming through the webapp (that requires you signed up to have access), one is confronted with the robust information available on medical conditions and drugs. The drug interaction module seems most interesting. Users can enter the drugs whose interaction they want to check and get an insight into possible fallouts of the prescription.
The webapp seems optimized for physicians hence my inability to easily interact with some functions in it – the Diseases and Condition module for instance – but generally, the website is simply an overambitious beta as of now. Some tuneups in user interface and user experience, and an even more robust library is sure make all the difference.
In an e-mail to TechCabal, MedEnhanz Physician Executive, Seun Odiase said they are partnering with Nigeria’s federal government and the country’s Medical and Dental Council to continue work on the product.
There are no talks yet on monetizing the offering, but a paywall for access to information on the website is a probable model.
MedEnhanz says it is also working on a Consumer Health mobile app that will wrap content from medenhanz.com and also feature health calculators; like the heart risk caculator and BMI calculator, and also a ask-a-doctor feature that provides an on-demand link-up with physicians on the medenhanz network. The app obviously reads like WebMD’s medical resource app, Medscape. Medhanz says the mobile application will be ready by May.
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