HealUA App: Peer-to-Peer Medical Consults for Ukraine
Summary
In 2025, Global Medical Knowledge Alliance committed to scaling HealUA, a secure mobile platform that enables rapid, peer-to-peer physician consultation across Ukraine. From September 2025 to September 2027, the initiative will grow its network from 4,500 to 12,000 verified clinicians, integrate AI-assisted translation and clinical decision support, and engage 200 international mentors. The project will directly equip 12,000 health care professionals with real-time specialty guidance and indirectly improve care for 100,000 patients nationwide. Implementation will proceed in two phases – AI translation integration, followed by user expansion and international mentorship – each with defined milestones and ongoing evaluation.
Approach
GMKA commits to expanding HealUA from a pilot application into a real‑time medical expertise sharing at scale. From 2025 to 2027, the platform will triple its verified users to 12,000; launch an AI-powered assistant that provides instant Ukrainian-English translations and drafts evidence-based summaries for each clinical query; and expand the moderation team that reviews responses for accuracy, relevance, and patient safety. Automatic translations will eliminate language barriers for specialists in North America and Europe, enabling them to support Ukrainian colleagues in real-time.
A 2024 peer‑reviewed evaluation of HealUA by Dzhemiliev et al. documented 3,861 registered clinicians across 39 specialties, 474 posted cases, and a 97 percent response rate within 24 hours, demonstrating both latent demand and platform efficacy. As of May 2025, HealUA has over 4,500 users. With HealUA, every physician – from Kharkiv to Lviv – will have rapid, secure access to the collective knowledge required to deliver evidence‑based care under wartime conditions.
GMKA will manage clinical governance, medical expertise, and expansion with a focus on recruiting Ukrainian physicians in subspecialties identified as high priority by the Ministry of Health of Ukraine. Together with their partner UA-MED, the GMKA team will expand the network of international mentors in prioritized medical fields. Empat IT Studio, the original developer of HealUA, will deliver all application upgrades, AI integration, performance monitoring, and cybersecurity enhancements.
Action Plan
September 2025-September, 2026: AI integration and expansion.
GMKA and Empat IT Studio will conduct an ISO-compliant security review, upgrade both the mobile and back-end architecture, and release an AI-powered translation functionality of HealUA application. Nationwide outreach, guided by priority clinical areas, will support user growth, with a target of 8,000 verified Ukrainian physicians utilizing the platform by the end of Year 1.
October 2026-September, 2027: Scale, AI-clinical support and global mentor network.
In Year 2, HealUA will reach 12,000 verified Ukrainian physicians and the AI-powered assistant will be created to incorporate concise evidence-based responses to clinical cases, helping users quickly access relevant guidelines, differential diagnoses, and treatment options tailored to the Ukrainian healthcare context. In partnership with UA-MED, at least 200 international mentors will be recruited to support Ukrainian colleagues; automatic translation will allow them to respond in English while Ukrainian users interact in their native language. Clinical moderators will continue to monitor all case discussions to ensure accuracy, clarity, and adherence to evidence-based standards. User satisfaction data will be systematically collected and analyzed to inform further platform improvements.
Background
Three years of full‑scale war have inflicted a staggering toll on Ukraine’s healthcare system. The World Health Organization has verified more than 2,250 deliberate attacks on hospitals, ambulances, and personnel, eroding every layer of clinical infrastructure and the country’s capacity to manage complex medical conditions. Over 11 million Ukrainians have been displaced, disrupting continuity of care and forcing patients with serious illnesses to seek help in unfamiliar regions, often at facilities unprepared for such complexity.
At the same time, thousands of physicians have been displaced, conscripted, or redirected toward trauma care, resulting in significant shortages in core specialties and increased workload for those who remain. Routine care pathways have collapsed, and physicians are often working beyond their training and resources to meet overwhelming clinical demands. Ukrainian doctors now routinely manage extensive multi-organ trauma, advanced malignancies, and rare conditions under resource-constrained, high-pressure conditions.
The spike in clinical complexity collides with a shrinking pool of in-house medical expertise, leaving isolated providers with limited options for consultation or second opinions. To bridge these widening expertise gaps, the Global Medical Knowledge Alliance (GMKA) launched HealUA in 2023, a secure mobile application that verifies physicians and enables real‑time, peer‑to‑peer consultation in Ukrainian and English.
Progress Update
Partnership Opportunities
The commitment seeks flexible funding to complete feature development and platform expansion, cover cloud‑hosting fees; in‑kind cloud credits; expertise in AI ethics and cybersecurity; and media amplification to accelerate user recruitment across all 24 regions of Ukraine and internationally. Clinical partners are invited to contribute specialty mentors and host visiting Ukrainian clinicians for short-term observations aligned with HealUA’s priority areas.,GMKA offers validated, clinical protocols in Ukrainian and English, a robust network of Ukrainian and international medical experts, and a secure, scalable digital infrastructure that partners can adapt for other conflict or disaster settings. The team will share best practices on physician verification, data anonymization, and bilingual user engagement, and welcomes collaboration with partners interested in co-developing modular training content or replicating the HealUA model in similarly disrupted healthcare frameworks.