Building the foundation for sovereign healthcare data.
LumkoMDX is a small team of digital-health leaders, AI strategists, and infrastructure engineers building what African healthcare needs. Quietly. From first principles.
Healthcare data should circulate everywhere — and never be exposed.
We're building infrastructure that makes patient sovereignty a structural property, not a policy. Because patients deserve better than a promise.
LumkoMDX exists because two things have always been positioned as opposites: learning from healthcare data and protecting patient identity. They aren't. They've just never been engineered as the same thing.
Every aggregation platform answers the trade-off by copying data into central warehouses. Every de-identification framework answers it by stripping fields and hoping. Both treat sovereignty as a policy enforced by humans — and humans, by definition, can be wrong, hacked, or coerced.
We answer it differently. Identity exposure is made structurally impossible by the Three-Boundary Model. Records never leave the source. Queries are federated. Only consent-validated insight ever moves.
That's the mission — described in one paragraph because it can be.
A future where data circulates safely, everywhere.
Every clinician, researcher, and ministry has the data they need to make better decisions — and no patient ever has to choose between contributing to medical progress and protecting their identity.
That's not a slogan. It's the precondition for the next twenty years of healthcare on this continent.
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Sovereignty first
If a guarantee is enforced by policy alone, it isn't a guarantee. We build properties of the system, not promises.
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Calm urgency
Healthcare moves carefully — for good reason. We work with conviction, not noise.
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Patient as principal
The patient is the unit. Their identity, their consent, their interest — that's the only frame we work in.
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Engineered humility
We assume any policy can be bypassed and any system can be breached. So we close the categories, not the incidents.
Four of us. For now.
Experience across digital health, AI strategy, and infrastructure — and a shared conviction about what the continent needs next.
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Prof. Yunkap Kwankam
Non-Executive ChairmanGlobal digital-health authority. Former WHO eHealth leadership; decades of work spanning telemedicine policy, health-information systems, and capacity-building across emerging economies.
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Phemi Kgomongwe
Managing DirectorOperator and product lead. Spent the previous decade between digital-health startups and institutional rollouts; convinced LumkoMDX needed to exist.
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Leroy Ngoma
Solutions EngineerBrings the federation node into existing networks. Deep background in clinical integration — Epic, Cerner, OpenMRS, and everything in between.
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Sima Kobo
Compliance LeadOwns the privacy boundary in code and in policy. Designs the audit surface, runs the regulatory conversations, signs every architectural decision that touches identity.
The institutions building this with us.
Pilots and partner conversations in flight across the continent. An honest snapshot — early, but real. We'll keep this list current as the conversations move.
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Provider Pilot proposal IME Inc.
Multi-site clinical network
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Industry Active dialogue SAHIA
Health insurance association
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Network Pilot proposal Telemedicine Africa
Pan-African virtual care
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Network Active dialogue Pan African Telehealth Network
Cross-border collaboration
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Provider Active dialogue TurboMedics
Diagnostic & lab services
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Platform Pilot proposal HealthBookApp
Patient platform
What "pilot" means here: deploy a sovereign federation node into the partner's environment and run a first cross-institution query with zero record movement.
Come build the next decade of African healthcare data.
We're a small, deliberate team. The roles we're hiring for next quarter are below — and even if none of them are you, we always make time for thoughtful introductions.
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Senior Backend Engineer
Johannesburg or remote · Africa-friendly TZFederation node internals, query routing, audit trail. You like distributed systems and writing things that don't break.
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Healthcare Solutions Architect
Johannesburg or remoteWalk into hospitals, leave with deployed federation nodes. You know FHIR, you know operators, and you can read a network diagram out loud.
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Compliance Engineer
Remote · Africa-friendly TZTranslate POPIA / HIPAA / GDPR into runnable checks. You write code and you write policy memos with equal ease.
Introduce yourself
Not on the list? Say hi anyway — we like meeting people who think about this work.
Let's build a healthier future together.
Whether you're a partner, an institution evaluating sovereign infrastructure, or simply curious — we'd love to talk.