Africa shouldn't be where access to good medicine stops. It's where ours begins.
Health Hub was founded on a single observation: African healthcare isn't broken because medicine is hard. It's broken because the connective tissue between patient, doctor, pharmacy, lab, and specialist is missing. We are building that connective tissue: clinical-grade, multilingual, and designed for the device you already have.
Every person in Africa has access to a qualified doctor, the right diagnosis, and the right treatment, regardless of location, income, or complexity of condition.
To connect African patients to care through an intelligent digital health companion, and when their condition requires it, to bring them safely to world-class specialist care in India.
Six rules we don't bend.
They sit at the top of our engineering specification. They are the first thing every new team member reads.
No patient bypasses the Healthcare Assistant. Structure isn't an obstacle to good medicine; it's a precondition for it at scale.
We are not a medical-tourism funnel. The India pathway is a clinical fallback for cases that genuinely cannot be handled locally, not the default.
USSD is not a Phase 3 nice-to-have. 36% of Sub-Saharan Africa has no smartphone. They deserve the same care everyone else does, from the same platform.
Triage scoring, red-flag detection, and the allergy gate are deterministic. The language model writes summaries and conducts conversation. It does not decide whether you are safe.
Every clinical record access is logged immutably. Every doctor decision is locked, never edited. Every override has a typed reason and a timestamp. We design as if we will be audited tomorrow, because eventually we will.
African patient data does not cross to India without explicit consent, and the architecture enforces this. Not policy, not training. Code is law where it matters most.
Three forces have converged. The window is open.
Africa has crossed the threshold where a digital health platform can actually reach the majority, and India has built the world's most cost-effective specialist medical capacity. Health Hub sits at the intersection.
Smartphone & connectivity
64% smartphone penetration in Sub-Saharan Africa. 81% 3G coverage. Affordable handsets under $100. The remaining 36% are reachable via USSD and SMS, and we don't abandon them.
Clinical AI is finally credible
LLM-powered conversational intake is good enough to capture structured history reliably. But it is not yet, and may never be, good enough for unsupervised diagnosis. The right architecture is human-led, AI-assisted.
Indian medical capacity is underutilised
India has world-class hospital capacity at one-tenth Western pricing. African patients already travel, but through unstructured agency channels. A clinical-grade platform replaces a fragmented agent market.
Four phases. Thirty months.
We publish our roadmap so partners, investors, and regulators can plan against it. We update it quarterly.
Patient onboarding, Healthcare Assistant across all channels, doctor portal, teleconsult engine, prescriptions, diagnostics. Live patients by month 6.
Partner portal, pharmacy fulfilment, insurance integration, hospital hubs (KE & IN), coordinator portal with India referral SLA.
Swahili, French, Amharic. M-Pesa & MoMo full integration. Amadeus flights and hotels. Community modules. Africa hospital hub coverage.
AI triage v2 fine-tuned on outcomes. Predictive alerts. Plain-language report summaries. Education content. ISO 27001 and SOC 2 audits.
There is room for clinicians, engineers, partners, and investors who want to build the connective tissue of African healthcare.
If our principles are your principles, we'd like to hear from you.