MACQUARIE MEDICAL CARE: How Armid Azadeh & Tosaline Auene decentralize healthcare with telemedicine

<p>In this interview meed <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/armid/" target="_blank">Armid Azadeh</a>, the founder of <a href="http://www.macquariemedical.com/" target="_blank">MACQUARIE MEDICAL CARE </a>and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/tosaline-auene-a7446a187/" target="_blank">Tosaline Auene</a>, Response Coordinator at MACQUARIE MEDICAL CARE, who speak about how they provide health for remote communities and lodges in Namibia through telemedicine and digital health innovation.</p> <p>It all started when Dr. Armid, after his return to Namibia around 2010 and 11 started to visit remote parts of Namibia and noticed that a lot of employees at lodges or remote sites had no access to healthcare. </p> <p>So initially they just started by providing a doctor on call. However, that service quickly developed into a full service model that helps to decentralize healthcare. </p> <p>In the interview Armid and Tosaline share</p> <ul><li>How they developed their telemedicine offer from a doctor on call to a full service model</li><li>How they price access to their telemedicine offerings </li><li>Which procedures and strategies enable them to treat a vast majority of calls they get remotely </li><li>And what plans they have for growing their telemedicine and digital health innovation business</li></ul> <p>They also talk about how entrepreneurs new to the sector can set up telemedicine businesses and what their advice to young Namibians is. </p> <p>There are a lot of insights in this interview and we hope that you enjoy the conversation with Armid and Tosaline as much as we did. </p>