About Mondial Health

Why Mondial Health Network?

The last decade has witnessed an outburst of investment in Electronic Health (eHealth) solutions resulting in an explosive demand for the use of Artificial Intelligence technology. eHealth can be defined as the secure use of information communication technologies in support of health and health related fields, including health-care services, health surveillance, and health education. By prioritizing high-risk patients for screening, improving disease prevention, predicting health-outcomes and optimizing treatment for patients, enabling earlier diagnoses and improving patient monitoring, eHealth systems have the potential to make health care more effective and affordable.

Furthermore, the reduction in communication costs, the increase in international travels as well as the scattering of families around the world and within each country, are all factors that are still contributing to the development of health care systems. Another element that has been playing an active role in the elaboration of eHealth platforms is the repercussion of medical errors in the death rate of populations. According to the estimations of Johns Hopkins’ investigators, medical errors are the third cause of death in the U.S. The overall misdiagnosis rate in healthcare is estimated at 30 percent, and it can be as high as 50 percent in certain situations; this means that oftentimes 1 in 3 patients will be misdiagnosed.

Moreover, the use of eHealth Platforms prevents conflicting and costly treatments. Indeed, according to certain estimations, around 30% of the total treatment’s costs have been unbenefited.

While the majority of these platforms are focused on Teleconsultaion and consider it as the most accessible way to take advantage of new technologies, according to experts of Grand View Research Inc, the transition of the healthcare platforms into a digital healthcare system for management and analysis of patient health will be the most vital driver of the eHealth demand in the future. Digitalization along with the increasing manipulation of home care by patients is expected to propel eHealth growth over the forecast period.

In an effort to meet these challenges, governments, hospitals, doctors and patients are effectively turning towards eHealth systems that prioritize collaboration, analysis, management, and homecare solutions. Yet, as the experience of the later decade has showed us, many obstacles are still blocking the widespread growth of such systems. Governments expect eHealth platforms to reduce and save costs, while hospitals see in these platforms a tool for hospital management and accounting. For physicians, registering patient records in the office is a major issue in an electronic health care system; while from a patients' point of view, a comprehensive initial evaluation, an accurate following examination, clear and accessible Medical Reports and the possibility of Homecare Monitoring are the basic parts of an efficient eHealth system.

… In a situation where each hospital and each physician has designed a separate eHealth platform, the possibility of collaborationg physicians and medeical staff and sharing a patient's medical record between these hospitals and offices is more than difficult, if at all, impossible. In opposition to popular believes, the existence of eHealth systems does not necessarily mean that the patient has a shared file, nor does it reflects the patients' ability to have access to their medical record, and ultimately does not give the patient and physicians' the ability to share and access the file worldwide.

To deal with this issue and overcome the impasse which is the use of separate health systems, governments are increasingly moving to build patient-based platforms instead of local, hospital-based or office-based systems. Today, eHealth patient-base systems are inevitably the only keys to a universal access to patients’ medical records on a worldwide scale. Furthermore, patient-based systems can save up to 30 percent in individual medical costs, in addition to at least 20 percent in national costs. Moreover, the use of such systems, when global, can bring substantial benefits to some regions and countries, especially to those experiencing pilgrims, medical or normal tourism.

… In short, eHealth programs, when not patient-based, are hospital management tools in which patients do not have access to their records and documents, since these are not useful for them. If it is patient-based but within the framework of a number of compatible centers, the patients’ record will only be available in those centers and can only be viewed and examined there. If it is public and includes most of the hospital centers, in this case, firstly, they are not able to keep the patient's medical secrets, and secondly, in practice, they have turned into an electronic program just to do away with paper communications. And if they are an application to record the patient’s information, they become a sort of drive in cyberspace, not an eHealth system. This is the challenge that eHealth platforms have been confronted to nowadays.

By observing and examining these challenges, benefits, problems and obstacles that the establishment of a patient-based electronic health system faces, it is now possible to better evaluate the Mondial Health Network (MHN) approach. Our method, from the beginning, was based on a specific conception of collaborative network around anonymous patient files; that the unsuccessful experiences has demonstrated both its validity and clarified its direction. Our approach has been based on using all the positive achievements and trying to prevent their negative consequences.

In short, MHN is a system through which medical staff can work together to achieve desired projects for their benefit and the benefit of the patients. It offers them the possibility of offering varieties of Health Products, without geographical limitation. However, the collaboration or offer area may be restricted depending on the nature of the project or legal obligations.

For example, some doctors and nurses form a group on the MHN to organize home hospital solutions, virtual polyclinics, emergency services, or seek others on MHN to expand their group, for research projects, exchange of experiences, ask second opinion ... at the national or international scale. They can also collaborate on an anonymous patient file or with his authorization.

The MHN is therefore a network, together with a medical platform which is its base, and serves as support for the various teams that are formed there. Doctors not only can make groups, but also realize their projects thanks to its multifaceted and evolving platform.

On the other hand, with regard to the patient, he can create his own file independently and consult a doctor from the network to complete it. In this case, he will be the decision-maker of his file and will have access to it. MHN also by providing access to the patient and his or her family, allowing family members to become members of the medical staff and their assistants as part of home patient care, such as capturing the patient's vital signs and communicating  with his doctor.

The network doctor, for his part, can also allow the patient to access the file at the time of filing, or only allow him or her to be informed or not of its content.

We can summarize the advantage of MHN as follows:

The existence of a specialized medical platform that meets the needs of doctors, medical staff and other beneficiaries, allows them to create records and files and generate the means of communication and regrouping. These various possibilities are the foundation for projects on which the concerned parties can collaborate.

Automatic attribution of a unique twelve-digit file number for each beneficiary, allowing them to remain completely anonymous.

A web-based platform, allowing accessibility on all devices and anywhere in the world.

There is also the option for the beneficiary to create his file, enabling him to have an independent status and become an active party on the decision making surrounding his record.

The possibility to be flexible in different circumstances, by restricting access from the broadest levels to the most limited, according the needs, the legal requirements, or the wishes and objectives of the project leaders.

… We should emphasize once again the open and global nature of the MHN platform. In this regard, the level of complexity of the system and its features are designed to be compatible with the conditions of most countries and existing electronic health care systems. In other words, each country and region should be able to adapt to the platform based on existing structures and based on the characteristics of its different systems.

Another consequence of the global and open nature of the MHN platform is that we have no local offices, representatives or exclusive agents in any country or region. All initiatives and efforts to expand the platform at the local level, even if by the members of the MHN Committee, are considered private, personal and non-exclusive. Every individual, private or public group or organization has the right to take the initiative to invest in the development of the platform.

We know also that common judgments, even among professionals, cannot really understand the difference between an “app” and a “system”, and even sometimes between “Telemedicine”’ and “Skype”. The rapid proliferation of mobile devices in recent years and the fact that they have become part of modern life has persuaded us to invest particularly in an eHealth application that supports the MHN system, making it accessible for all doctors and patients around the world.

These are some of the main characteristics and features of MHN eHealth system and platforms. Actually, for both structural and conceptual reasons, there is no other electronic system in the world platform market that could put all these features together. None of them are universal in the real sense of the word. Those who claim to be global can only be seen and effective in the adapted medical centers. None of them have the possility to be anonymous or unidentifiable. None of them are open and they are all interdependent and connected to specific systems. Most of those who seem serious, in addition to all the other shortcomings, are very complex, and those who are not complex are unserious and useless.