Vula Mobile
The Vula platform is a unique health technology solution, which was designed by healthcare practitioners for healthcare practitioners. It has grown organically in South Africa by meeting the critical needs of a high-demand system. It connects a broad range of HCPs, including pharmacists, GPs and community health workers, to localized specialist services within geographical areas, thereby delivering locally relevant specialist guided health care at primary facilities. It helps build primary HCPs' capacity through digital-based learning, which occurs during their daily work because they learn each time they contact a specialist. It helps develop relationships and build trust in a healthcare ecosystem by improving care for patients at primary facilities. Also, it helps deliver relevant information to patients and provides a system for data analysis and reporting. Today, we have helped hundreds of thousands of patients receive specialist guided healthcare in a secure and efficient environment. Additionally, previously unrecordable communication data is aggregated, valuable and made available to healthcare workers to optimize their practices and identify opportunities.

Purpose

Vula is a medical referral app and online platform that makes it easy for primary healthcare workers to get advice from and refer patients to specialists. Vula connects clinicians to each other and their patients, with a seamless, integrated, secure platform, in order to deliver high quality, cost effective, accessible healthcare.

William Mapham

CEO and Founder , Vula Mobile

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Summary

Vula Mobile will improve access to specialist healthcare in Africa by connecting 50,000 health workers weekly by 2024.

Activities & Initiatives

Vula Mobile runs software that connects health workers. It improves referral systems and our focus is on the public sector. The software is made available at no cost to all health workers and all health systems. Vula's impact has been studied indepenedently see https://www.vulamobile.com/research

Measures & Targets

Vula Mobile will measure progress by tracking the number of health workers connecting on Vula per week with a goal of reaching 50,000.

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