Daffodil enables Sagitarix to provide affordable healthcare delivery across Kenya through an integrated on-demand healthcare application

The engagement started with the Daffodil team setting up a strategic requirement gathering process in place. This was done through our unique Discover & Frame workshop, wherein we document app ideas, target market, persona, business model, competition, revenue streams, etc. This helps us get a clear understanding of what is the client’s expectations and effectively develop a project roadmap. Once, all the aforementioned aspects were documented, our expert business analyst team analyzed the application requirements, created user stories, feature lists, process flow diagrams and clickable prototypes of the application. On the techno-commercial front, they suggested the most viable technology stack, identified third party tools and Integration and proposed a block level architecture of the application.

Keeping all of Sagitarix’s requirements into consideration, Daffodil recommended developing a health information exchange (HIE) platform. The platform could enable users to access information on how, when and where they could seek quality medical care, diagnostics, and medicine in and around their area. iSikCure, an integrated platform was developed, wherein healthcare professionals, physicians, pharmacies and diagnostics centers could register themselves, and the patients could connect with them. The frontend architecture was built using modern technologies such as AngularJS and Ionic to deliver the best in class user experience. The API was developed using NodeJS and the DBMS was built using MongoDB, which allows document-oriented storage and is easy to scale, for faster retrieval of medicine details on the user’s request. These modern technologies helped us make iSikCure a high-performance and scalable application. The application was developed in adherence to the HIPAA compliance and the data breach laws to ensure confidentiality which is vital for a healthcare solution like iSikCure.

Some of the key modules that Daffodil developed were:

Telehealth Module: This feature enables the medical practitioners to remotely monitor the patient’s health and prescribe them health advisory accordingly. This also includes a medicine adherence module in which doctors could prescribe medication and remind patients to take their medication, on defined intervals.

Electronic Record Management System (ERMS): This feature was added to keep a consolidated record of the medical history of the patients including symptoms, prescription, appointment details, etc.

Appointment Booking System: This allows patients to book appointments using the mobile application to connect and communicate with doctors, labs, pharmacies, and health counselors.

Offline Support: This feature enables users to have a seamless experience in slow or no network connection. Caching, manual replication and real-time data synchronization approaches were followed to develop an offline-first application architecture. This was done considering the telecom infrastructure in Africa.

Integrated Gamification: This feature enables higher user retention by setting up an integrated reward point system in place, called the Medpoints. Its goal was to make users interact with the application and experience a sense of accomplishment each time they receive MedPoints. Hence, making them repeat the required actions acting as a successful reward and loyalty program in the long run.

Database System: A detailed database of medicine was developed in MongoDB which allows document-oriented storage and is easy to scale, for faster retrieval of medicine details on the user’s request.