Daodad

A digital platform that improves the diagnosis process for patients by bridging the communication gap between General Practitioners and Specialists.

How may we optimize the patient journey for patients in rheumatology sections in order to reduce the diagnostic delay? Rheumatic pathologies affect 2-3% percent of the population, but patients have to wait on average 6 months for a rheumatologist consultation and to be diagnosed. This delay could have consequences and is linked to the lack of specialists and the fact that patients are not directed to the right professional when their first symptoms appear.

One of the biggest problems we witnessed during our research was the lack of means of communication for private doctors to specialists in hospitals. This led to an inability of general practitioners to address urgent patients to specialists, whose waiting list can be up to 6 months. Our solution, Daodad, is a digital platform aimed to better connect doctors. It allows them to search for specialists using advanced criteria and directly ask for an urgent timeslot or peer-to-peer consultation. This platform was specifically designed with and for doctors, all this with a real focus on data privacy.

From almost 6 months of waiting for a specialist consultation to less than a week, Daodad allows drastically fastened medical care of patients with rheumatic inflammation.
As these pathologies are known to be degeneratives, so starting the treatment much earlier in their patient journey will have a highly positive impact in the process of controlling the disease.
Also, it turns out that this platform works for all doctors, and thus, all pathologies, allowing us to see potential for positive impact much beyond the scope of our initial briefing.