By: CorporateIT

After a research and development effort that spanned over three years, the Medipass company launched a new electronic health voucher. “With this, patients will now have an alternative to purchase their vouchers, since the dependence that providers had on a single provider is broken, which also forced users to authorize the registration of their fingerprint on a basis of data ”, highlights Alfonso Escobar, general manager of the company.

This new healthcare channel began operating as a pilot plan on Monday, April 8 at Medigroup Medical Center and Vival Laboratory and Diagnostic Center. During the trial period, which will last for just over a month, Fonasa electronic vouchers will be issued in a free choice modality, as a last check before the system begins operating under the regime, from the second half of May .

“In a first stage, our electronic voucher system will be integrated into Fonasa and we are in talks to be able to incorporate the different Isapres and complementary insurance companies into this service,” says Alfonso Escobar, general manager of Medipass.

The goal for 2019 is to reach an issuance of at least 150,000 electronic bonds between the Fonasa and Isapre systems.

The Medipass electronic voucher was designed as a service-based health care mechanism, so that those providers that have their own procedures will have the option of integrating it into their systems. This will optimize the efficiency of care processes and people will perceive a reduction in service times.

The security of personal data will also increase, due to the use of biometric technology applied by Medipass, a solution that avoids storing the fingerprint and the enrollment of patients, since the system operates with the biometric information stored in the identity card of the patient. patient. This method fully protects the confidentiality of information from system users and avoids impersonation by requiring the presence of the person and their identity card simultaneously.

“Providers are going to be able to offer better service to the public. Before the launch of our electronic voucher, with a single provider, if the system failed, patients would be left with no alternative, generating loss of time and inconvenience ”, having to carry out additional procedures such as going to a branch of their Isapre or Fonasa and requesting a new time in the health center with the consequent loss of time and travel costs, explains Alfonso Escobar.

Benefits

The executive highlights the attributes of the new electronic voucher that Medipass will offer to the health market are summarized in:

✔ A much more robust technological infrastructure, which will guarantee a high percentage of operability, reducing the possibility of failures that leave users without access to the system.

✔ Biometric Identification without enrollment that ensures patients greater privacy, in line with the Bill that regulates the Protection of Personal Data.

✔ A modern service-oriented platform that allows the provider to register all the attention in a single repository, independent of the type of attention, not only electronic vouchers, and to have a business management tool, having access to the reports it requires .

Undoubtedly, the incorporation of competition will have benefits for all players in the industry: patients, health providers, funders, insurance companies, means of payment, etc.

by Ana Toral, MergerMarket

Grupo Inexoos, a Chilean holding company focused on technology solutions for the education and healthcare industries, plans to expand its footprint in Latin America through acquisitions, CEO David Fuller said.

Desirable targets for the 15-year-old holding company would include providers of education and healthcare technologies in Chile, Colombia, Peru and Mexico, Fuller said. Targets of interest should be well managed and have an interesting client base, he added.

Inexoos has already held meetings with a potential target in Chile and plans to close a deal in the next 12 months. In the meantime, it remains receptive to overtures from players shopping themselves and sellside M&A advisors, the CEO said.

The holding company, which generates USD 20m in annual revenues, works with the Chilean legal rms Elton y Cia and Montt Group, Fuller said.

Inexoos has already relied on M&A to accelerate its expansion. In 2015, it acquired Santiago-based provider of school assessment software Mateonet. One year later, it bought Medipass, a Santiago- based supplier of digital payment solutions for healthcare companies. And in 2018, it secured a majority stake in CNT, a Bogota-based provider of health information systems, the CEO noted.

It also owns two other subsidiaries: school management and pedagogic platform Napsis, and Nusystem, an IT provider of resource management systems for large corporations, the CEO noted.

Inexoos serves more than 1,100 customers. Half of its revenues come from its education technology solutions, 40% from its health tech arm and 10% from Nusystem, Fuller said.

Grupo Inexoos seeks acquisitions to expand education and health tech solutions in Latin America, CEO says. The holding company has a physical presence in Chile, Colombia and Peru, and plans to venture into Mexico within the next 12 months. It also plans to sell its education technology solutions to clients in Brazil, Ecuador, Guatemala and Nicaragua through local distributors, the CEO noted.

Inexoos saw the demand for its health tech solutions jump by 50% in 1H20 against the same period last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the CEO noted.

Demand for its education tech solutions has also increased, Fuller said, adding that Inexoos launched an online platform last month, that helps teachers measure the learning performance of their students. The solution is currently being used in 50 Chilean schools, he noted.

Inexoos was founded in 2005 by Fuller, who owns 65% of the business. The remaining 35% is held by his brother and director Jorge Fuller, the CEO noted. The holding company does not plan to cede equity at this time, but could reevaluate this alternative further down the road, Fuller said.