They want their data to be used in a way that maximises their experience, Micheál Killarney Co-founder Miko Healthcare

Micheál Killarney, and Prof. Stephen Daniels of DCU, are building a unified healthcare platform, Miko Healthcare. Starting with pharmacy, along with medication adherence, and expanding through healthcare via affiliations to build a marketplace. Miko Healthcare are also in the process of launching their alpha product. Ronan talks to Micheál Killarney about this and more.

Micheál talks about his background, how Miko Healthcare came about, their alpha product, the current pandemic and their future plans.

More about Miko Healthcare:

Miko Healthcare have commercial partnerships agreed with Letsgetchecked, and Fitbit. They are also in contact with insurance, tele-consultation, addiction, diet, fitness, dermatology and wellness firms. Their adherence solutions has the potential to improve adherence from 50% to 98.9%. Currently non-adherence costs EU governments 125bn annually, taking 200,000 lives prematurely. Their cost base is about 1/3rd that of a regular pharmacy for example, and their model can access as many customers as 400 community pharmacies. They don't have a licence to sell medicine yet, however this is something Miko Healthcare hope to pursue in the future and they are focused on building their technology and commercial partnerships as it stands.