A health technology startup founded by three recent management engineering graduates as their 2020 Capstone Design project has been awarded a grant from the Clinton Foundation’s COVID-19 Student Action Fund.
Emre, a cloud-based medical-record system, is designed to help medical professionals deliver high-quality healthcare to displacement and refugee
Co-founders Danial Betres, Victoria Li and Jon Dhanapala plan to use the funding to help with travel and software expenses to pilot the system in a medical clinic within an Iraqi displacement camp.
Emre co-founders Danial Betres, left, Victoria Li and Jon Dhanapala received a grant from the Clinton Foundation’s COVID-19 Student Action Fund.
“Unreliable health care record-keeping plagues a vast majority of displacement and refugee camps, making it difficult to gain an understanding of the health state of an individual or population,” said Dhanapala. “We aim to help solve this issue.”
Emre has been part of the GreenHouse social impact incubator at St. Paul’s University College since earlier this year. [full story]