An android and IOS enabled mobile app that will serve as a hub for all healthcare professional is set to be launched in Nigeria.
The digital platform is an innovation of IQVIA, a global provider of information technology solutions and human data science.
The Mobile hub app as gathered has been developed to connect healthcare professionals across Afrika and the Middle East.
The move is aimed at deepening networking and collaboration among health care providers and help stem the trend of inter-professional rivalry in Nigeria and the continent at large.
According to Country Manager, IQVIA West Africa, Pharm. Remi Adeseun, the platform designed to bring together all specialties and sub specialties of Doctors – Pharmacists, Nurses, Medical Laboratory Scientists, and all other Healthcare Professionals.
The app will help them to connect follow Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs), discuss medical cases, establish public/private groups, view videos for increased knowledge, earn Continuing Professional Development, CPD points from content provided by approved bodies and KOLs, find jobs and career opportunities across multiple regions in Africa and the Middle East.
He said, “we believe in collaboration and networking in an environment that can be trusted and one which is dedicated to verified healthcare professionals across Nigeria, Africa as a whole and the Middle East.
“The IQVIA HCP Space will help improve the Healthcare Professionals’ practice, patient experience and produce desired healthcare outcomes.”
It would be recalled that a Communiqué was issued at the end of the Inter-Professional Collaboration Symposium organized by the Nigeria Academy of Pharmacy in collaboration with the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, PSN.
The event which held on May 11 2017 at the University of Lagos encapsulated an 8-points resolution, and identified the concept of universal communication and collaboration among healthcare professionals that is yielding documented benefits and gains in the healthcare sector across the world.
