Lagos-based e-health start-up Helium Health has launched its operations in Kenya. The startup is partnering with three local providers, Philips Healthcare Technologies, Carepay, and Savannah Informatics, Helium Health to integrate new services, including an EMR to serve the entire East African market. Launched in 2016, Helium Health is the largest Electronic Medical Records (EMR) and Hospital Management Information (HMI) Systems provider in West Africa. The start-up was founded by three entrepreneurs, Adegoke Olobusi, Tito Ovia and Dimeji Sofowora, with a shared passion for solving the practical problems that they identified within the Nigerian health sector using technology.
Helium Health offers a full suite of products covering the complete healthcare value chain, from Electronic Medical Records (EMR), and Hospital Management Information (HMI) Systems, to credit and telemedicine products. Over 300 healthcare providers and 5,000 health professionals in Nigeria, Senegal and Ghana currently use Helium Health’s technology, allowing healthcare facilities to accept payments and issue invoices with ease, access quick funding, and hold televisits with their patients, making it easier for patients to get diagnosed from their homes. In 2020, Helium Health won the IFC Tech Emerge award, an award that matches innovative health tech start-ups with leading healthcare providers across Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda to implement pilot projects and build long-term partnerships. Helium Health will pilot its technology in the East African market.