BIMA, the leading provider of mobile-based insurance and health products scooped the award ‘Best Mobile Innovation for Health & Biotech’ at the prestigious GSMA Global Mobile Awards (GLOMO Awards). The awards recognise and celebrate the very best innovations that help evolve and develop the mobile industry.
Mobile Health services were launched by the insurance startup BIMA in 2016 in Ghana to address the scarcity of traditional healthcare resources in most emerging countries. The mobile service offers subscribers and their families unlimited access to medical consultations and health programmes over their phones and paid for via their phone credit. Since its inception mHealth from BIMA has been launched in Bangladesh, Ghana, Pakistan, Paraguay, and Cambodia and has reached over 2.2 million customers.
Jose Martin, Global Health Strategy Manager of BIMA, said:
“For BIMA to be recognized as a leader in the mobile healthcare industry is incredibly motivating for us. At BIMA we’re focused on providing the best possible mobile-based health service to people who need it most.
“In emerging markets, it is common to have to travel long distances and sacrifice long hours waiting in a clinic before seeing a doctor. For those who work in the informal sector, the hours lost also have an impact on their income. These factors often prevent people from seeking medical help when they need it.
“Our aim at BIMA is to offer an end to end solution for customers that addresses these inequalities. Our aim is to grow mHealth and offer the service to all BIMA customers across Asia, Africa and Latin America.”
BIMA’s mHealth tele-doctor services are affordably bundled with its insurance products, thereby offering greater value to customers and giving them all-round protection against both financial and health risks.
The service is complemented by a suite of online-to-offline services delivered in partnership with local networks of hospitals, laboratories and pharmacies in each of BIMA’s markets.
BIMA has developed a platform that easily integrates with any mobile operator allowing payment through airtime credit or mobile money wallets which allows the organisation to maximise on the opportunities provided by the mobile penetration rates in emerging markets.
The GLOMOs are judged by independent experts, analysts, journalists, academics, and, in some cases, mobile operator representatives.
27 Feb 2019