NIN-verified · FHIR-native · NDPA-compliant

Your medical record should outlive
your hospital visits.

MedRecords is Nigeria's patient-owned medical record platform — one verified identity that follows you across every clinic, pharmacy, dentist, and lab. Built FHIR-native, anchored to NIN, designed for the connectivity you actually have.

MedRecords ID
MR-9482-1735-2210
Verified
Adaeze Okonkwo
Lagos · 34 years
115M
NIN-registered
Nigerians
6,000+
Registered
pharmacies
12
FHIR record
categories
0
National EHRs
in production

Nigeria's healthcare doesn't have a memory problem.
It has a record problem.

Medical records exist — but they live inside the four walls of whichever institution made them. They don't travel. They don't follow the patient. They don't add up.

i.
100%
Institution-owned
Every record in Nigeria today is stored by the provider who created it. The patient holds nothing portable, nothing verifiable, nothing structured.
ii.
30k+
Disconnected providers
Tens of thousands of clinics, pharmacies, labs, dental and optical practices — each running their own siloed system, none speaking to the others.
iii.
0
National EHR
Two decades of attempts and announcements. No working nationwide medical record system exists. Patients carry paper, or they carry nothing.
"

A 34-year-old patient with diabetes, hypertension, and a known penicillin allergy walks into a pharmacy near her office. The pharmacist sees none of this. She walks out with the same prescription she filled yesterday at a different branch.

— A representative day in Nigerian healthcare

One record. Every provider. The patient holds the key.

MedRecords gives every Nigerian a single verified medical identity — anchored to NIN, controlled by the patient, queryable by any provider they consent to. The record is built on HL7 FHIR R4 from the first line of code.

See the architecture
01 / Identity

NIN-anchored

One verified identity per Nigerian, bound to NIN with photo and biometric matching. Provisional accounts for the unverified.

02 / Consent

Granular & temporal

Patients grant scope, duration, and category. Full, dental-only, time-limited, single-encounter, dispense-only — or break-glass for emergencies.

03 / Standards

FHIR R4 native

The canonical model from day one. No retrofit, no migration. Built to interoperate with any compliant system.

04 / Connectivity

Offline-first

Provider apps queue encounters offline and sync on reconnect. USSD shortcode for feature phones. Designed for Nigerian network reality.

05 / Audit

Patient-visible

Every read and every write is logged. Patients see exactly who looked at their record, when, and under what consent.

06 / Compliance

NDPA from day one

Registered data controller. Designated DPO. 72-hour breach notification. Field-level encryption for special-category data.

A platform with three audiences and one shared record.

Free for patients. SaaS for providers. PMPM for payers. Each layer makes the next layer more valuable.

For Patients

A lifetime record they own.

Free for every Nigerian. The record is the patient's, not the hospital's. It moves with them across providers, exports for embassy applications, and supports dependents under one account.

  • NIN-verified identity, biometric login
  • 12 record categories, all in one app
  • QR + 6-digit code for in-person consent
  • USSD fallback for feature phones
  • Dependents: children and elderly parents
For Providers

Faster, safer, more accurate care.

Clinicians see the patient context they need in one screen — allergies, active medications, recent labs. Pharmacies verify prescriptions and catch interactions. Specialists see only their scope.

  • Structured encounters with ICD-10
  • Electronic prescriptions, no paper
  • Offline workstation with sync
  • HMS adapters for existing systems
  • Time-to-first-record under 15 minutes
For Payers

Claims-grade clinical data.

HMOs, NHIA, and state schemes access encounter and dispense data scoped to enrolled members, with member consent enforced. Better claims, less fraud, real risk pricing.

  • Scoped FHIR API for enrolled lives
  • Per-member consent enforcement
  • Structured diagnosis and Rx data
  • Fraud-pattern analytics dashboard
  • Population health reporting

Five steps. Repeated everywhere.

The same flow runs at the GP, the pharmacy, the dentist, the lab. Each step is FHIR-shaped. Each access is logged. Each consent expires.

Step i.

Identify

Patient scans the provider's QR code or shares a 6-digit one-time code from their app at reception.

Step ii.

Consent

Patient grants scope (full, dental, pharmacy, single-encounter) and duration. Provider gets a signed token.

Step iii.

Care

Provider sees relevant history, authors the encounter, writes the prescription — all structured FHIR.

Step iv.

Dispense

Pharmacy verifies the Rx, checks for interactions and duplicates, records what was actually dispensed.

Step v.

Audit

Patient sees every access in a chronological log. Disputes flow to compliance review within 14 days.

9:41 ●●●● 4G
Good morning
Adaeze
MedRecords ID
MR-9482-1735-2210
Adaeze Okonkwo ✓ NIN
Recent activity
Metformin dispensed
HealthPlus Lekki
2h
🩺
Visit recorded
Dr Tunde Adeyemi
3d
🧪
Lab results ready
FBC + Lipid · Synlab
5d
Care team
👨‍⚕
Dr Tunde Adeyemi
GP · Reddington Hospital

The whole record.
In one app.

Twelve categories, mapped to FHIR resources, visible to the patient. Allergies and active medications always surface. Every entry is signed by whoever authored it.

  • i.
    Allergies surface first. Penicillin reactions, drug sensitivities, food allergies — always one tap away, surfaced to any provider the moment consent is granted.
  • ii.
    Prescription as a unit. Each Rx shows who prescribed it, where it was filled, and what was actually dispensed — across every pharmacy.
  • iii.
    Embassy-ready exports. One tap to generate a signed PDF with QR verification for visa applications, employer screening, and international care.
  • iv.
    Dependents under one account. Children's vaccinations, elderly parents' medications, all manageable from one verified guardian account.

The strictest standard we can implement, by design.

Medical data is permanent. A breach cannot be undone. We build like that's the operating assumption.

NDPA-compliant

Registered data controller from incorporation. Designated DPO. 72-hour breach notification commitment. NDPC engagement from day one.

Section 41 ready

AES-256 + TLS 1.3

Encryption at rest and in transit. Field-level encryption for HIV, mental health, and reproductive data with separate key custody.

In-country residency

Append-only audit

Every read and every write is cryptographically signed and logged. Tampering is detectable. Patients see who accessed their data and when.

Patient-visible

FHIR R4 standard

HL7 FHIR R4 as the canonical model. We publish the Nigeria Implementation Guide as an open standard. No proprietary lock-in.

Open standard

Break-glass protocol

Emergency access requires written justification, MFA re-auth, immediate patient SMS notification, and 7-day compliance review of every event.

Auditable always

NIN identity verification

Every account is anchored to a verified NIN with phone OTP and biometric photo match against NIMC records. No fake or duplicate accounts.

NIMC integrated

ISO 27001 target

Independent third-party security audit completed before public launch. ISO 27001 certified by month 24. SOC 2 Type II thereafter.

Annual pentests

Patient ownership

The patient is the data controller. The platform never sells identified data — full stop, written into our articles of incorporation.

Never sold

From Lagos pharmacies to ECOWAS.

A 36-month build sequence. Pharmacies wedge the network. GPs follow. Payers fund the long-term base. Multi-city expansion follows proof.

Phase 1
Months 0–9

Pharmacy MVP

Two Lagos LGAs. 20 active pharmacies. 5,000 patient accounts. 25,000 dispense events. Seed round closed.

Phase 2
Months 9–15

GP Wave

Full clinician workstation. 50 active providers. First HMS adapter. Offline sync engine. First payer LOI.

Phase 3
Months 15–24

Payer & Multi-city

Abuja and one secondary city. First HMO in production. ISO 27001. Series A closed.

Phase 4
Year 2–3

National Scale

5+ cities. 1,000+ providers. 1M+ patients. Multiple payers under contract. Hospital tier live.

Phase 5
Year 3+

Regional & Platform

ECOWAS expansion starting with Ghana. Public APIs. Research data products. Clinical decision support overlays.

Asked by investors, regulators, and ourselves.

The objections we hear most often, answered honestly. The full stress-test memo goes further; this is the public version.

Q.01 Hasn't this been tried already? Why hasn't anyone built it? +
What has been tried is institutional EMR — software that lives inside one hospital, owned by that hospital. That is a fundamentally different product from a patient-owned, cross-institutional record. The cross-institutional version was not feasible until three things became true recently: NIN coverage crossed a usable threshold, smartphone penetration reached the target segments, and NDPA created a regulatory framework that legitimizes the data layer. The window is now open, and the previous failures inform our approach — patient-owned not institution-owned, standards-first, pharmacy-led adoption.
Q.02 Who actually pays you in the first 24 months? +
Pharmacies pay first, at a modest per-branch SaaS fee, because they get verification, controlled-substance compliance, and customer loyalty in return. GP clinics pay second once pharmacy data exists in their geography. The first material revenue line is a payer contract in late phase 2 or early phase 3. We are not relying on government revenue in the first 24 months.
Q.03 What happens if the government mandates a national EHR tomorrow? +
Two answers. First, FMOH has been talking about a national EHR for many years; the gap between aspiration and execution is large, and we do not believe a turnkey government solution is imminent. Second, the historical pattern in similar markets (India's ABDM, Estonia's eHealth) is that the government builds standards and APIs and lets private providers deliver the patient and provider experience. We are positioning to be that private layer — participating in standards, complying with whatever government produces, and delivering a better product than the public sector can.
Q.04 How does this work for Nigerians without smartphones? +
USSD is in v1 scope, not v2. A shortcode supports the core flows — consent grant, prescription verification, last-records summary. The patient experience is more limited, but the medical record itself isn't: providers still write the same structured data into the same record. Patients can also receive records through provider-mediated flows. Over time, smartphone penetration improves; in the meantime, USSD plus provider-led data entry covers the population that the app alone cannot.
Q.05 What about clinical liability if data is wrong? +
Clinical decisions are the responsibility of the clinician. Our terms of service make explicit that MedRecords is a record-keeping platform, not a clinical decision-support system. Authorship is preserved: the record shows which provider entered which data and when. If incorrect data contributes to harm, liability flows to whoever authored the incorrect entry, not to MedRecords. This is the same legal structure as a hospital paper chart.
Q.06 Can a patient refuse to share data and still get care? +
Yes. Care is never conditional on MedRecords consent. A provider on the platform can decline to use MedRecords for a specific patient who chooses not to grant consent, and the patient receives care under the provider's pre-existing workflow. MedRecords is an option, not a requirement. This is documented in provider terms of service.
Q.07 What happens to the data if MedRecords shuts down? +
Three commitments, written into our articles and terms. Patients always have the right to export their full record in standard FHIR format and as signed PDFs. In the event of acquisition, the data controller relationship continues under the new entity with patient notification. In the event of shutdown, a transition period of at least 12 months lets patients export, and underlying records (with patient consent) transition to an FMOH- or NDPC-designated successor.

Every Nigerian.
One record.

We're partnering with pharmacies, GP clinics, hospitals, and HMOs in Lagos for the Phase 1 pilot. Patients can join the waitlist for early access in their area.

No spam. Updates only when we launch in your city.

For providers

Pharmacy, clinic, or hospital interested in piloting? We're onboarding design partners in Lagos now. partners@medrecords.ng

For investors & press

Full materials including PRD, business model, and stress-test memo available under NDA. hello@medrecords.ng