SnooCODERED is a healthcare logistics system enhancing access to efficient emergency medical response and care in hard-to-reach and hard-to-operate areas.
Built on the SnooCODE digital addressing system, the SnooCODERED Control Centre (SRCC) platform enables responders to determine the nearest health assets (ambulance stations; hospitals; pharmacies; individual doctors) to a patient and navigate easily to & from the emergency scene, improving response time and chances of survival – 99% offline.
SnooCODERED’s family of cost-effective mobile technologies is making Emergency Services, Public Health, and Epidemiology more efficient.
SnooCODERED Value Proposition
WHERE WE ARE TODAY
SnooCODERED has evolved into a modular solution to fit 4 applications for Emergency, Public, and Primary Healthcare:
Stationary emergency call centre
Mobile EMT (ambulance)
Stationary primary e-healthcare outpost
Mobile clinic
Each application has 3 main components in common:
Power Source
Satellite Internet
Tablet with SnooCODERED Control Centre, now integrated with AI (Genie)
Any health worker can now set up a simple mobile health outpost anywhere on Earth.
A rudimentary version of our stationary primary e-healthcare outpost
We have designed the e-healthcare outpost as a fully-fledged health kiosk that houses our AI-integrated tablet, a human health assistant, CCTV cameras that can scan ID cards for patient data, and basic equipment like a thermal imaging gun for public health emergencies (and ultimately primary healthcare) in both rural and urban areas. The image here shows the most basic version, showing the system can be set up anywhere, including remote areas and during disaster.
Healthcare can be accessible and efficient at a fraction of the cost
There is a critical deficit in emergency healthcare support, severe doctor shortage, and restricted rural healthcare access in roughly 80% of Africa. This puts entire public healthcare systems at risk.
But getting doctors to see more patients, make fewer mistakes, and ultimately improve patient outcomes even in remote and resource-constrained settings is possible.
That’s the power of the SnooCODERED system.
Through SnooCODERED’s solutions we aim to cut down lengthy patient wait-times, effectively reducing doctor exhaustion. This includes reducing the hourly cost of physician consultation by as much as 70%, with doctors seeing more patients and making better decisions.
With SnooCODERED, healthcare access is managed by both medical professionals and laypersons, and in areas where there is limited internet connectivity.
the SNOOCODERED story
In 2015, SnooCODE collaborated with the Vodafone Ghana Foundation and Ghana’s National Ambulance Service to launch a variant of the SnooCODE system under our family of technologies for Emergency and Public Health - SnooCODERED - to accurately locate victims in emergency situations.
The National Ambulance Service opened in 2004, largely in response to the Accra Sports Stadium disaster in 2001, where 126 football supporters died in a stampede. Public confidence in emergency services has remained limited since.
Battling with entrenched attitudes, where people often use taxis in emergencies or think of ambulances as used for carrying corpses, finding people in densely populated and rural areas has been a challenge, and responses often come too late. Responders had typically struggled to find victims, and those in need of emergency attention would often waste valuable time trying to direct ambulances to their location. SnooCODERED aims to considerably reduce response time.
Over 160 emergency workers were trained on how to use the SnooCODERED system, which is free and works without an Internet connection.
The SnooCODERED app:
Enables ambulances to accurately locate emergency scenes
Reduces emergency response times in order to meet the international standard requirement of 8 minutes
Provides management of ambulance services with concrete data that serve as the basis for medium to long term strategic operations planning
We also worked on a project with the Embassy of Switzerland in Ghana, the Emergency Medicine Society of Ghana (EMSOG) and the French Development Agency to integrate a model into SnooCODERED that will allow emergency control centre operators to see at the touch of a button a list of the most capable hospitals to handle each particular emergency, helping to save more lives.
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Find out more about how we’re making healthcare way more accessible and efficient at a fraction of the cost.
Our Healthcare Logistics Journey
2015 Customized SnooCODE for the National Ambulance Service of Ghana as SnooCODERED
2017 Reduced emergency response times by as much as 56% in trials with Ghana’s National Ambulance Service. Trained over 400 EMTs to use SnooCODERED.
2020 Integrated drone capability into SnooCODERED
2021 Our Health Emergency Acuity Project (Project Heal) ranked hospitals in Ghana based on capacity to provide advanced medical care and specialist services by the SnooCODERED team.
2023 Simulation of SnooCODERED with LFR International
2023 Equity investment from the African Impact Initiative via the African Impact Challenge (a programme run in collaboration with the Mastercard Foundation and the University of Toronto)
2024 Signed MoU with LFR International
2024 and ongoing Incorporation of AI into SnooCODERED for context-appropriate clinical decision support, with two white papers published with clinicians.