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FORT HEALTH DATA SYSTEMS
Sage is a data analytics service for insurance agents, providing insights into your client base in order to help you streamline your sales efforts and make more money with less effort. Sage is powered by Project Fort, a data analytics firm specializing in communitybased wellness. Our goal is to build and scale the digital infrastructure necessary to shape healthier Filipino communities for generations to come. Our reports outline actionable insights gleaned from the community data you provided as part of our data analytics service agreement. Using this report, you’ll be able to focus your client outreach efforts on the people, products, and premiums most likely to result in actual sales. We utilize industry-leading practices in data modeling and public health practice. Insights in this report are intended to guide your sales efforts and are not assurances of future outcomes.
Project Fort helps companies save money and improve overall employee health by using community -based data to develop dynamic wellness strategies. Think of it as a Fitbit service, but for your whole workforce.
Name: Fort Health Data Systems Inc. (Project Fort)
Description: Project Fort is a subscription-based health data consultancy specializing in developing wellness strategies for communities.
Service: Community health data analytics
Email: erika@projectfort.com
Website: https://www.projectfort.com
Address: 1129 J. Natividad Lopez St. Bgy. 659-A Ermita, City of Manila, NCR, Philippines, 1000
Individual Founder Information
Name: Cheyenne Ariana Erika M. Modina
Email: erika@projectfort.com
Mobile Number: +639175113529
Position: CEO
Experience: I am the CEO of Project Fort and the President of Epimetrics Inc., a health research institution based in the Philippines geared towards the achievement of health equity through health systems and policy research. I am currently handling research projects under the Philippine Department of Health, World Health Organization, and the United Nations Population Fund. As a public health researcher, my studies have been integral to the development of the Universal Health Care Law and the Guidelines for the Maximum Retail Price of Drug and Medicine in the Philippines. Aside from being a researcher, I am also a lecturer under the Health Sciences Program in Ateneo de Manila University. I am passionate about empowering the youth to use design thinking in public health and to increase health literacy through research and digital healthy settings in the Philippines. Expertise: Public Health
Links: Linkedin, Facebook
Company Stage: Pre-seed/seed Stage
Capital Seeking: Currently looking for strategic partnerships, specifically in the public sector.
According to an ILO study published earlier this month, roughly 745,000 people die annually due to poor working conditions. The study found this especially true in the Western Pacific and Southeast Asian regions. Long working hours, psychological stress, health-harming behavior to deal with that stress, and resulting strokes and heart disease — were all listed as contributing factors. Now what does that look like locally? Annually, Filipino businesses lose at least P100 billion pesos due to poor employee health. This is in spite of companies already spending roughly P150 billion trying to take care of employees.
The takeaway here is that companies are spending their money on the wrong things because of a lack of proper insight into employee health. Insights that can only be gleaned, given the right tools and expertise. We believe there’s a better, proactive way to care for our people.
Our solution: Project Fort, a wellness tool that provides insights into your workforce, allowing you to make data driven decisions around wellness — driving
champion. The traditional view of health stakeholders spanning patients, providers, and insurers fails to factor in the massively influential role that employers, school administrators, and local government units play in the daily health of our communities.
Our main challenge as a startup is establishing touchpoints across those different healthy settings to ensure we can deliver a truly whole-of-society approach to community care. Striking strategic partnerships is our primary goal at the moment. While we are making great strides already, we have yet to find a champion in the public sector that can help us scale more meaningfully to more communities. like hypertension and heart disease.
Most innovations in healthcare today fall under new delivery methods: home care, telemedicine. While these are essential stepping stones in making care more accessible, they still operate under the same paradigm of individual, curative care. Addressing health problems, after they’ve become problems.
Project Fort represents a new paradigm, an entirely different approach, rooted in the science of public health. We take a holistic definition of what it means to be healthy, and use data-driven strategies to offer proactive, community care.
Our mission is to build data tools to generate meaningful insights for healthier communities. In addition to serving the Ever Gotesco community with our health data analytics, we’ve also partnered with Medicare Plus, an HMO to provide exclusive health plans for our users. We are steadily laying the groundwork to expand beyond workplaces.
Building on our initial focus on BPOS, we’re currently in talks with 17 universities in Cavite to manage roughly 30,000 students as they transition back to hybrid remote-andclassroom learning. While this may take on a different pricing scheme, due to scale & services students need, this arrangement with the Cavite State University community alone may already accelerate us to Cash Flow Neutral.
We recently closed an investment deal with SFIO, a global investment holding company listed in the US & based out of New Zealand. Under this partnership, we will be co-developing a community health dashboard for townships, a major step forward towards our ultimate goal of building data-driven, tech-enabled public health systems for LGUS. We will be developing and operating a new version of Project Fort, catering to the wellness tourism townships being developed in Batangas and Palawan. Through SFIO, we are also partnered with Neurosky, a health wearable developer based in Silicon Valley. We’re already in talks with the group to build proprietary wearables under the Project Fort brand to augment our data gathering efforts.
With 500k and 3 months, we will be able to focus exclusively on upgrading our technologies to better service these townships.
To do all this, we’ve assembled a team of expert care professionals in the fields of public health and workforce wellness management. Our CEO, Erika Modina is concurrently the President of a research institution called Epimetrics. Through her experience consulting for the DOH, and international organizations like UNICEF, she’s built a network of researchers and care providers that share our vision of a community-based care ecosystem. This includes our team of workforce wellness officers, all MD-MBA holders, who specialize in health management strategies.