Please describe your proposed solution.
Why is it important?
There are 4 (four) key areas in which we will work to continue linking the world of HEALTHCARE with BLOCKCHAIN technology adn A.I. (artificial intelligence)
· 1.1.1) Launch the Citaldoc Health Token to impact in lower healthcare costs for the patients with the functions of a payment instrument, including rewards and being stored as an investment vehicle.
· 1.1.2) Transforming Citaldoc into a multilingual platform - Internationalization (I18n) and Localization (L10n)
· 1.1.3) Make a deep upgrade of the telemedicine platform Citaldoc.com with improvements in usability, services and facilitating global scaling.
Facilitating medical care for patients and health professionals.
· 1.1.4) Incorporation of an Artificial Intelligence assistant to guide patients in selecting and requesting care with professionals segmented by specialty, geolocation and time availability for face-to-face or remote appointments.
1.1.1) Launch the Citaldoc Health Token to impact in lower healthcare costs for the patients
In this proposal we consider essential the launch of the Citaldoc Health Token
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10 reasons why a healthcare token is important.
1) Launch a token with the functions of a payment instrument, including rewards and being stored as an investment vehicle.
A healthcare token has a direct impact in favoring access to efficient and quality medical care at a lower cost for the patient and recognizing the work of the healthcare professional who carries it out.
But it will not only have an impact on health, social and economic aspects, but also on education and scientific research.
2) The patients using the Health Token benefits from not having to pay Citaldoc's usage fees which range in case of payment with fiat money (30%) or ADA (10%), Health Token (0%).
3) Healthcare professionals who accept the token will be able to exchange it for ADA, which favors fostering Cardano's crypto and blockchain ecosystem and all its benefits of hoarding, transactions, and staking
4) The creation of a healthcare token is part of Citaldoc's road map.
Token + Internationalization and Localization -> SPO — >DAO -> Metaverse throughout the world (multilingual)
Projects we expect to realize between 2024 to 2026.
5) In a second stage, the token can be used for the purchase of medicines, imaging studies, laboratories, interconsultations, medical supplies, hospitalizations, health transfers, medical education, etc.
We seek to be a channel to achieve lower costs in medical care.
Impacting in extending the community to other stakeholders that make up the health universe (clinics, hospitals, pharmacy, pharmaceutical industry, medical supplies, devices, governments, etc.).
6) The incorporation of smart contracts into the healthcare will be a step towards increasing the security and protection of patient’s sensitive health data.
The incorporation of self-sovereign identity systems and boosting scalability, decentralization, and interoperability with other systems.
7) The health token is an initial step for the future development of a global health coverage system based on a DAO.
Through governance, automated or non-automated decisions can be made to support common health situations, but especially those of greater complexity such as treatments for severe pathologies, oncological, neurological, cardiac, renal, endocrinological, transplants and experimental treatments that comply with bioethical standards aimed at curing diseases that are difficult to treat or lack treatment.
8) Enhance the use and education about the Cardano Blockchain.
9) Transfer of tokens between users.
Social responsibility by being able to buy tokens to donate and enable the care of patients without access to health and/or economic resources.
10) Community actions to support complex health situations.
E.g., specific studies or operations, transplants, treatments, etc.
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· 1.1.2) Transforming Citaldoc into a multilingual platform - Internationalization (I18n) and Localization (L10n)
Impact in healthcare requires to be available to big volumes of patients.
Thus, translating Citaldoc into more languages will enable us to escalate our telemedicine services, ADA payment methods and Cardano health smart contracts to be available to billons people around the world.
This action that will allow to reach more patients and health professionals in the world, will facilitate access to qualified, efficient, safe and personalized medical care.
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· 1.1.3) Make a deep upgrade of the telemedicine platform Citaldoc.com with improvements in usability, services and facilitating global scaling.
Facilitating medical care for patients and health professionals.
We enter this Catalyst FUND 10 with a new technology partner Eudaimonia ISO 9001 (Bureau Veritas) certified software development processes a case story of Amazon (2022) and DigitalOcean (2023). <https://ask.euda.com.ar/>
This alliance will be fundamental to advance the milestones of the Fund10 proposal but also to broaden horizons of medicine and its link with the Cardano Blockchain.
The adoption of a health token and smart contracts of Cardano Blockchain in sensible health data such as doctor’s Prescription and Medical records will enable patients to have a more active role in the management and ownership of their health matters.
· 1.1.4) Incorporation of an Artificial Intelligence assistant to guide patients in selecting and requesting care with professionals segmented by specialty, geolocation and time availability for face-to-face or remote appointments.
Euda <https://ask.euda.com.ar/> technology, based on OpenAI, which is self-personalized with Citaldoc data.
As it is self-configurable, it does not need to write the questions-answers like traditional chatbots.
HUGE OPPORTUNITY: We are convinced that the adoption of the Cardano Blockchain and crypto as a form of payment (ADA/Djed, etc) , in the health sector, will unlock the huge potential of smart contracts and crypto to promote prevention and access to health care for more people since nowadays the use of crypto and smart contract in the health sector is low or non-existent.
Enhance this project with the launch of a health token that will have an impact on lower health care costs for patients.
Who is served and benefited from Citaldoc?
● Patients
● Healthcare professionals
● Health care centers
● Health insurance companies
● Companies
● Governments
● Pharmaceutical industry
● Other related stakeholders
Citaldoc has been one of the companies selected by Catalyst Fund8 in the Business Solutions category (BtB, BtC)
We recommend the reading of the presentation made in the Catalyst Fund8 that was selected by the community <https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/61935>
And watch the closing video of Fund8 in
We thank the Cardano Catalyst Community for identifying this untapped opportunity in the health sector and voting for us to achieve the funding requested in Fund 8, providing us recommendations and ideas that have been important to build up the Citaldoc project.
We hope we are providing you in this document solid fundamentals and good grounds to continue receiving your support in this Catalyst FUND10
Our effort is directed to the development of the platform, the incorporation of new languages to scale globally, the education of patients in the responsible and efficient use of telemedicine, education in the impact and importance of the application of blockchain in the health sector, financial education, health care education and ethical and responsible medical marketing.
" Citaldoc Health Token + AI + Global" is a continuation project already in operation, with a constituted team and well-defined objectives, which facilitates its implementation and fulfillment of the goals.
Synthesis of the problems
● Offer a channel to reduce the cost of spending on health of the world population.
Incorporating a token for medical care, smart contracts and enabling payment with Ada and others crypto and stablecoins.
Citaldoc Health Token with the functions of a payment instrument, including rewards and being stored as an investment vehicle
● Reduce language barriers to achieve greater access to health by become Citaldoc multilingual (internationalization & localization)
Every possible language automatically, but with human supervision to maximize the comprehensibility of the translation. (English, French, Portuguese, an all language possible in automatic mode).
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7EilLchaVQ>
How does your proposed solution address the challenge and what benefits will this bring to the Cardano ecosystem?
“Citaldoc Health Token + AI + Global” is the continuation of the project completed in the Cardano Catalyst Fund8 “Help2Health Cardano + Citaldoc”
Help2Health: Cardano + Citaldoc (ideascale.com)
In Fund 8 we have successfully completed:
1) In the area of remote medical consultation via video and messaging we enable ADA as a method of payment of professional fees with discounts.
2) We incorporated in Citaldoc's Electronic Prescription a bash script that notifies about the generation of the medical prescription to the Cardano blockchain.
The information sent contains the medical prescription with its respective data about the prescribed medication, indication (dosage and form of administration) and diagnosis.
In FUND 10 we present “Citaldoc Health Token + AI + Global” project includes the launch of a Health Token for medical care and the translation of the platform into more languages for the purpose of internationalization (I18n) and subsequent localization (L10n) of our Telemedicine services and an artificial intelligence (A.I.) assistant that guides and facilitates the patient to obtain face-to-face or remote appointments with a healthcare professional.
Citaldoc Health Token + AI + Global is the continuation of the project completed in the Cardano Catalyst Fund8 Help2Health Cardano + Citaldoc
You can see here the project closing video
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7EilLchaVQ>Going deeper
Multlingual:
To be global we need to translate both the webapp www.citaldoc.com and the mobile applications (IOS & Android) into other languages, seeking the internationalization (I18n) and localization (L10n) of the services we offer.
Currently the platform is in Spanish, so the incorporation of other languages is mandatory for global scaling and thus obtain new professionals and patients from other latitudes, becoming global.
Health Token
A healthcare token has a direct impact in favoring access to efficient and quality medical care at a lower cost for the patient and recognizing the work of the healthcare professional who carries it out.
Complying with payment method functions, obtaining rewards and being stored as an investment vehicle
But it will not only have an impact on health, social and economic aspects, also on education and scientific research.
Artificial Intelligence Assistant
And as an innovative service that we believe we should include is the incorporation of an artificial intelligence assistant to guide patients in the selection and request for care with professionals segmented by specialty, geolocation and time availability for face-to-face or remote appointments**.**
Euda technology, based on OpenAI, which is self-personalized with Citaldoc data.
<https://ask.euda.com.ar/>
As it is self-configurable, it does not need to write the questions-answers as traditional chatbots do.
Migrate and upgrade the telemedicine platform Citaldoc.com with improvements in usability, services and facilitating global scaling.
To achieve an expansion of the use of the Health Token and the platform in general, we will make important improvements in Citaldoc.
We seek to optimize its usability and functionalities and, of course, to be multilingual.
What is Citaldoc?
Citaldoc (www.citaldoc.com) is an already operational telemedicine platform from Argentina that seeks to incorporate smart contracts based on Cardano and thus offer greater security and privacy in medical teleconsultations, tokenization, electronic medical records, medication prescriptions, transfer of results of studies and incorporate the payment of benefits with ADA.
This will enable patient and professional users to receive bonuses and incentives in said digital currencies.
In Cardano Catalys Fund 10 we will launch a Health Token and make Citaldoc multilingual to facilitate access to quality health care, with lower costs and global presence and incorporate A.I. assistant for arranging face-to-face and remote medical appointments
THE VISION
With the Citaldoc project we aim to become a transformational factor in people's health care, promoting the global scaling of our telemedicine service adding blockchain technology, token, smarts contracts and cryptocurrency transactions (ADA) in the health universe.
With this Project we want to improve the access for more people to safe health at an adequate cost, with high quality and better protection of patient sensitive data.
We consider “Citaldoc Health Token + AI + Global” as an outstanding and avant-garde contribution to regular medical practice, it is a way of transcending and feeling useful to society.
MARKET
Demographics
7.668 billion people / 7,168 languages
430 million deaf / 86% literate
Top 10 Languages by Total Number Of Speakers
1. English / 1.452 billion total speakers
2. Mandarin Chinese / 1.119 billion total speakers
3. Hindi / 602 million total speakers
4. Spanish / 559 million total speakers
5. Standard Arabic / 274 million total speakers
6. French / 274 million total speakers
7. Bengali / 273 million total speaker
8. Russian / 258 million total speakers
9. Portuguese / 258 million total speakers
10. Urdu / 231 million total speakers
Telemedicine market
● Global By 2025, it is estimated that the telemedicine market in LATAM will be 3.48 Billion U$D, an increase of 120% compared to 1.57 billion U$D in 2020.
● Estimated Global Telemedicine Market for 2026 is USD 175 Billons
Note: Latin America is the region with the highest increase in medical costs in 2021 due to the Covid19 effect
Source: Global Medical Trends 2021
<https://insights-north-america.aon.com/research/2021-global-medical-trend-rates-report>
REFERENCES
- Citaldoc - Plataforma de telemedicina
- Healthcare data on the blockchain - Cardano Foundation
<https://forum.cardano.org/t/healthcare-data-on-the-blockchain/63898>
- Sustainable Health Agenda for the Americas 2018-2030
<https://www.paho.org/en/sustainable-health-agenda-americas-2018-2030>
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- Health at a Glance: Latin America and the Caribbean 2020
<https://www.oecd.org/health/health-at-a-glance-latin-america-and-the-caribbean-2020-6089164f-en.htm>
- PAHO - Pan American Health Organization
<https://www.paho.org/en>
- Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
<https://www.oecd.org/>
- World bank.org
<https://www.worldbank.org/en/home>
- Cardano Docs
<https://docs.cardano.org/>
- IOHK
<https://iohk.io/en/research/library/>
- Aldea DAO
<https://aldea-dao.org/>
- Gimbalabs
<https://gimbalabs.com/>
- Emurgo
<https://education.emurgo.io/blog>
- Opportunities and Challenges of Blockchain Technologies in Health Care
<https://www.oecd.org/finance/Opportunities-and-Challenges-of-Blockchain-Technologies-in-Health-Care.pdf>
<u> </u> People who speak English, Portuguese and Spanish in the world (2021 data)
https://es.statista.com/estadisticas/635631/los-idiomas-mas-hablados-en-el-mundo
- English speaking countries
<https://www.worlddata.info/languages/english.php>
- French speaking countries
<https://www.worlddata.info/languages/french.php>
- Portuguese speaking countries
<https://www.worlddata.info/languages/portuguese.php>
- Internationalization and localization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalization_and_localization
- I18next Documentation
- React - i18next documentation
- Latin America: telemedicine market value 2020-2025 https://www.statista.com/statistics/800293/telemedicine-market-value-latin-america
- Global Medical Trends 2021
<https://www.wtwco.com/es-AR/Insights/2020/11/encuesta-2021-global-medical-trends>
- Index Mundi / Health Professionals per country
https://www.indexmundi.com/map/?v=2226&l=es
- Pubmed
<https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/>
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7EilLchaVQ> Opportunities
● Complement what was proposed in the completed Catalyst Fund8 through translation of Citaldoc, promoting the expansion of our Telemedicine services to more people.
● The impact of tokenizing health care.
● The impact of Artificial Intelligence in health care.
● The pandemic and post-pandemic COVID19
● The growth of the blockchain market, especially the ecosystem related to Cardano and the still incipient use in the health sector.
● The positive impact of integrating the use of smart contracts in the health area
● The push for payment of services with ADA
● The expansion and acceptance of telemedicine worldwide
● Have a fully functioning Citaldoc www.citaldoc.com telemedicine platform (+100,000 registered users: health professionals and patients)
Challenges
● Reduce the language gap by allowing users who speak English, Portuguese, French, etc. to join as health professionals to offer their services to patients in their preferred language.
We are looking for a worldwide scaling of our telemedicine service.
● Launch a HEALTH TOKEN to impact in lower healthcare costs.
● Incorporate professionals in the development area with a profile oriented to the Cardano, Haskell and Plutus blockchain.
Stimulate the education of human resources oriented towards this knowledge.
● Another main challenge is cultural and educational.
● Educate health professionals and patients about the relevance of cryptocurrencies and blockchain applied to health care.
● Educate health professionals and patients in the use of telemedicine tools efficiently and responsibly.
● Integrate the rest of the stakeholders (pharma, health coverage, pharmacies, diagnostic centers, governments.
Take advantage of opportunities to solve challenges!!
Through “Citaldoc Health Token + AI + Global” we are convinced of achieving a positive adoption of the use of cryptocurrencies, health token, and smart contracts in the health sector.
Educating the use of health technologies and encouraging financial education will help to generate healthy preventive habits, reduce existing inequity, help reduce health spending and improve the economic income of patients, professionals, and other health stakeholders, thus achieving a remarkable social purpose while safely expanding patient health data sharing and empowering individuals to better manage their personal health data.
The internationalization (I18N) and localization (L10n) of our platform will result in the health of people and in the expansion of the Cardano blockchain in this area that is so significant for the world population.
This stage of our project is called Citaldoc Health Token + AI + Global.
Threats
In the event of a drastic drop in ADA's share price, we will seek ways to meet the most important objectives (launch of the health token and internationalization).
We will reserve the efficient selection of the developments to be carried out in case of a significant drop in the share price.
How do you intend to measure the success of your project?
DEFINITION OF SUCCESS
· Our success is getting patients, health professionals and other health stakeholders to use Citaldoc, incorporating ADA and Djed and other stablecoins of the Cardano ecosystem to their transactions and Cardano Smart Contract in pursuit of better health care and positive economic impact.
· Take an active role in integrating e-health with the Cardano blockchain.
Launch of a health token that impacts on lower costs and quality health care.
· Seeking expansion through translation from Spanish to English, French and Portuguese, with the aim of being one (Internationalization I18N & Localization L10n)
Opening the opportunity of medical care to billion people
· We seek to be a benchmark in the link and integration of the world of health with the Cardano blockchain and artificial intelligence.
PAST - PRESENT - FUTURE - Citaldoc
“Citaldoc Health Token + AI + Global”
October 2023 to June 2024
We will use machine translations for other languages and look for human translators for supervision and proof of reading.
Continue to add languages to globally expand platform operations.
· In the future, we seek to transform Citaldoc into a DAO that implements Cardano and Ada/Djed in the health sector and launch our own token.
· Incorporation of an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant
SHORT-TERM SUCCESS
· Between October 2023 and June 2024, we will launch the Citaldoc Health Token and incorporate the translation into English, French and Portuguese, in later stages we will incorporate more languages
The goal is to continue adding users and scale worldwide.
For this reason, the importance of working on Internationalization (I18n) & Localization (L10n) from this stage.
· In May 2024, we consider it successful to carry out the complete launch of the project and want to get between 50 health professionals to accept payment with ADA when it is available, and at least 300 patients carry out consultations and preventive controls using it as a payment currency and taking advantage of its incentives and bonuses.
These numbers must be put in the context that the crypto market is firmly taking its first steps.
It needs impact use cases such as Citaldoc would also impact the onboarding of new users (patients, health professionals, health companies, pharmaceutical industry, developers and other stakeholders) to our services and through us to the Cardano ecosystem.
We are sure that during the second half of 2024 the platform will scale significantly.
By having a robust medical care platform that links Blockchain technology and Artificial Intelligence
To achieve this, our platform and mobile applications will adapt to the new languages incorporated, as well as elements of the Cardano open-source collection and adding alliances with entities and references of the Cardano universe.
· Workshops and webinars will be held for professionals, patients and providers.
· Video tutorials, manuals and instructions will be distributed.
MEDIUM-& LONG-TERM SUCCESS
If we consider medium and long term to a period between 1 to 5 years
Success will mean that between 3000 and 20,000 health professionals have their digital office and accept ADA, Djed and/or our future token for their transactions and that between 1M and 10M patients use the service.
We understand that by incorporating more languages, global expansion could impact billons of people to whom our service will provide benefits in health care, equity in medical care and protection of their economy and health expenses.
· “Citaldoc Health Token” launch
· Incorporate interoperability, artificial intelligence (AI) tool and the possibility of interacting with external medical devices.
· Be a reference in the dissemination of the relevance of blockchain, focusing on Cardano and its positive impact on health.
· The inclusion of other health actors (pharmacy, health insurance, diagnostic studies, pharmacy offices, related companies, etc.) to further strengthen the care network.
· Global Scaling.
· To be a world reference in health services linked to blockchain and the Cardano network.
· Transform into DAO (IMPORTANT: this goal is a future, requires in-depth analysis and collaboration from the Cardano and Catalyst community)
We emphasize that it is a goal for a few years, but that we must keep in mind on the horizon.
· Health Metaverse (IMPORTANT: this goal is a future, requires in-depth analysis and collaboration from the Cardano and Catalyst community)
We emphasize that it is a goal for a few years, but that we must keep in mind on the horizon.
Please describe your plans to share the outputs and results of your project?
For each area that constitutes the project we will make reports to present in each cycle of Catalyst Fund 10 with the objective of meeting the milestones
Basic fundamentals
· Partial and total progress in each area will be documented for each cycle closing (monthly).
· This documentation may contain, links, text, images and videos.
We will share theinformation with the entire Cardano community and with all potential users outside the blockchain.
Working together with a technology company (EUDA) certified ISO 9001 - 2015 Bureau Veritas Certification requires complete and continuous documentation that we will use to present the status of the development.
Reports will be included for the General Development area, blockchain and Artificial Intelligence and, of course, the actions in Education and Marketing.
The information obtained, for example on electronic prescriptions, is valuable data for scientific research, medical education and health care.
And of course all outstanding data that can be processed to improve the offer of solutions for the world of health and blockchain.
We will include KPIs to report progress and facilitate project monitoring
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KPIs
Citaldoc Health Token + AI + Global.
• For Fund10 we consider relevant KPIs is to document the progress of the translation of the platform into English, French and Portuguese with human supervision and any automatic translations into other languages that we can incorporate
• Launch Citaldoc's Health Token and begin its distribution and use.
• Investment in the development area is the most important (76%) and fundamental to achieving Cardano Catalyst Fund 10's objectives.
Together with Euda (our technology partner) we will be focused on meeting the proposed milestones and generating new and better ideas if we see opportunities.
Documentation and presentation of progress in the development area will be submitted on a monthly basis if applicable.
• Documentation, screenshots, sample video, updating of manuals and instructions for use for professionals and patients (Spanish, English and others it is possible)
• Presentation of the updates of the terms and conditions and of the privacy policies that include the rights and obligations of the users and of the platform in the incorporated languages.
• Statistics on the incorporation of new users from other latitudes and the language selected for communication.
• The statistics of the actions carried out on social networks and their growth.
• Documentation of participation in Catalyst and Cardano events
• Participation in events held by Help2Health aimed at health professionals and patients.
• Meetings with companies and leaders of the Cardano community to achieve specific alliances.
The reports of the KPIs of the FUND10 with their statistical data will be included:
Completed and partial progress in each area will be documented for each cycle closing.
This documentation may contain text, images and videos.**
We segment KPIs into 3 areas
- TRANSLATION
- DEVELOPMENT
- EDUCATION and MARKETING KPIs
A) TRANSLATION of the platform with automatic tools (I18n & l10n) and supervised – proofreading by human translators.
· - On a monthly basis, we will show and document the progress of the translation, initially into English and once this language is advanced, we will move to French and Portuguese. We will include documents, images and/or videos if required.
In these, languages automatic translation tools will be used and will be supervised by human translators to improve the result and the user's understanding.
Of course in the automatic translation tools we will look for the opportunity to add as many languages as possible that will have to be supervised by human translators afterwards.
B) DEVELOPMENT – PROGRAMMING – BLOCKCHAIN – HEALTH TOKEN
These KPIs are the most critical
· We will document progress in the following areas
· We will seek to meet the established objectives but allow ourselves to be flexible when we find an opportunity that allows rapid progress in an area at the expense of putting some part of the development on hold and then picking it up again.
Development is dynamic and it is important to take advantage of opportunities that arise during the progress of the project.
DEVELOPMENT K PIS
1. Migration of Citaldoc to a modern and usable version.
Documentation of partial and total progress in this area.
2. Advances in the development and launch of the Health Token.
Documentation of partial and total progress in this area.
3. Other news related to the development of the platform's software
C) EDUCATION and MARKETING KPIs
* Some items depend on the migrated Citaldoc platform being operational in terms of translation, new features and of course the launch of the health token.
Social & Education KPIs Report
● Attendees to Webinars and workshops
● Guidance inquiries to technical support
● Social Media Advertising Statistics (Instagram, Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter)
● Organic statistics in social networks
● Compliance with computer development times
● Any important news to share with the community will be included in the report.
*With operative platform / at the end of the project if applicable
● New users, patients, health professionals
● Total teleconsultation requests
● Face-to-face appointment requests
● Payment of teleconsultations with FIAT
● Payment of teleconsultations with ADA
● Number of Professionals that accept ADA