Public health incentives and health data analytics platform.

About Us

Ribbon Blockchain is a healthcare incentives platform that aims to modify health and wellness behaviour through rewardable tasks.

Ribbon channels donated, pledged or sponsored funding directly to patients, community health workers and healthcare practitioners; where such funding is used to incentivize preventative care, adherence to medication and therapy, quality of care delivery and overall population health outcomes.

Our Incentives are distributed in DAI, an asset-backed, decentralized stablecoin on the Ethereum blockchain.

Features

• Ratings : Our Patient Experience of Care (PEC) rating system enables patients to rate their healthcare experience to help identify areas for continuous improvement on the quality of healthcare delivery at both healthcare practitioner and healthcare institution level.

• Incentives : We offer tokenized incentives (paid in DAI) for any private or public health and wellness program or institution that needs to encourage preventative healthcare, disease screening and testing, quality of care delivery, adherence to therapy, disease suppression and behaviour change.

• Analytics : The Ribbon system generates Real-Time Data Analytics which allow healthcare institutions, practitioners, businesses and decision makers to get health insights, draw conclusions immediately and react to healthcare-related issues.

• Decentralized : Ribbon uses smart contracts and IPFS technology to decentralized the information storage to allow for better security and no upfront infrastructure costs.

• Crowdfunding : The DAO allows for transparency of funds from a donor or sponsor to the end user. That entire process is recorded and information is sent back to the donor. The funds are first crowdfunded by a program, all of those funds go directly into the DAO and only get sent out to the people it's supposed to. Everything is tracked and if there's any malicious intent then a user will know and they can then report that program. The funds will be returned and the program will be deleted.

• Ribbon Pay : With Ribbon Pay, you can access crypto despite not having internet access or a smart device. Ribbon Pay uses USSD, SMS and Smart Contracts to enable seamless payment through all

Getting Started with Ribbon

Prerequisites

You're going to need:

• Linux, Windows or macOS

• AWS Amplify

Getting Set Up

1. Clone IncentivesPOC to your hard drive with git clone https://github.com/RibbonBlockchain/IncentivesPOC.git

2. cd IncentivesPOC

3. Initialize and start the IncentivesPOC to run locally:

# Run this to run the app locally

npm install

npm run serve

You can now see the POC at http://localhost:8080. Whoa! That was fast!

Our Partners

• South African Department of Science & Tech

• South African Reserve Bank

• Deloitte

• Reaction Consulting Pty Ltd

• Harambe Foundation NPC

• South African Blockchain Association

• Africa Blockchain Alliance

• Consensys

You can view more on our website.

Questions? Need Help? Found a bug?

If you've got questions about setup, deploying, special feature implementation in your fork, or just want to chat with the core team, please feel free to chat to us on our Slack!

Found a bug with the app? Go ahead and submit an issue. And, of course, feel free to submit pull requests with bug fixes or changes to the dev branch.

Special Thanks To Our Advisors

Mathias Forbord - Back End & Serverless Architecture

Ben Onuoha - Blockchain Strategy

Joshua Cassidy - Blockchain Application Development

Simon Emanuel Schmid - User Experience Engineering

Dr Brenda Kubheka - Risk, Bioethics & Health Law

Daniel Makoni - Data Science & Engineering