Purpose of Project

Strengthen the Peruvian healthcare system by matching patient needs with available services

Matchmaking Peru’s objective is to strengthen the Peruvian health care system through a digital platform that connects healthcare facilities and enables cooperation for better patient care. Despite being one of the first countries in Latin America to have taken far-reaching measures to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, Peru has the highest mortality rates, surpassing all neighboring countries. This can be attributed to Peru’s strongly decentralized and divided health system, making it difficult to assign and transfer patients across subsystems to the appropriate healthcare facilities. Matchmaking Peru’s platform will help to solve this problem by enabling the “matching” of patients’ respective needs and the available services of health care facilities in geographical proximity and across subsystems. It will be developed as a complement to existing digital systems and will be free to use for Peruvian authorities.