Ignacio Oliveri

"In Uruguay a government plan called Ceibalhas been distributing computers to students in the public education system for the last 6 years, and beyond improving the digital literacy of school children, it could be a gateway to other essential services for hundreds of thousands of Uruguayan families.

Ignacio Oliveri, a Systems Analysis graduate from the ORT University (Uruguay), intends to leverage this infrastructure to improve the rehabilitation process for children with disabilities. He has created a software platform that prevents the small ones and their caretakers from having to move to hundred miles away to receive treatment and the advice of therapists.

ViperMed puts the families of children with cerebral palsy or other diseases who live hundreds of miles from the capital in constant communication with rehabilitation centers. This innovation allows families to receive training and monitoring through the Internet improving adherence to rehabilitation, reducing expenses and saving time.

Oliveri collaborates with the Telethon Foundation in Uruguay, which offers rehabilitation treatment for children affected by neuromuscular or skeletal diseases. For the medical center to adopt this software is also very advantageous: it helps the staff to offer better, more effective assistance to a larger number of patients while reducing travel and lodging costs as well as human resources.

ViperMed can become a means of income for the institution: it is designed to encourage the spread of content relating to rehabilitation techniques, created for the platform by professional therapists which can then be shared or sold to other centers through the platform. They have recently signed an agreement with the Oritel organization to introduce its software in 12 countries in Latin America and Central America, where 150 rehabilitation centers may use this knowledge to generate a positive impact on an average of 260,000 children per year."