Noora Health

Our mission is to train patients and their families with high-impact health skills to improve outcomes and save lives. Working closely with local partners, we turn hospital hallways and waiting rooms into classrooms and enable family members to provide care in the hospital and at home.

Benefits

Improved health awareness, understanding, and outcomes

Main Features

Take complex medical information and turn it into relevant videos and text
Upskill hospital staff to effectively train patients' families
Turn hospital waiting areas into classrooms or training faciltiies
Data collection

Primary Audience

Hospital systems
Public health organizations
Health equity advocacy organizations
Governments

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Hospitals are for more than on-site healing, the Bangalore-based Noora Health realized, so in 2014 it began training patients’ visiting relatives on what to do to assist in the recovery back home; it’s now trained more than 76,000 people.

Social Innovation in Health Initiative

Noora Health challenges the status quo of health delivery by transforming family members into equipped caregivers through engaging practical training at hospital premises.

Shahed Alam

Co-founder

Noora Health

Shahed Alam

Co-founder

Noora Health

The thing that I think has really grounded us and kept our approach connected to what we are doing has been our roots in human-centred design, and how it really puts the user first; the basic needs and understanding of the user

Dr. Jeremy Levin

Chairman & CEO

Ovid Therapeutics Inc

Dr. Jeremy Levin

Chairman & CEO

Ovid Therapeutics Inc

On the face of it, they are addressing an important need. Caring for patients at home and educating the families to do so, is an important part of total care of a patient.