The way patients are treated globally has been changed by technology, and this trend will continue. Digital technology, especially AI, has started to improve the healthcare sector in a number of ways, from pharmaceutical creation to assisting healthcare professionals in their decision-making to enhancing diagnosis and patient treatment productivity. Healthcare firms are creating ground-breaking solutions using AI, IoT, robots, and data analytics to address long-standing healthcare challenges. Four startups pioneering the healthcare of tomorrow are listed below.
Navia Life Care
One of India’s fastest-growing digital health firms, Navia Life Care, helps to improve access to high-quality data throughout the healthcare ecosystem and reduce information asymmetry. It was created with the intention of providing innovative platforms to healthcare providers all over the world in order to raise the bar of treatment and enhance patient outcomes. Since its founding in 2016, Navia Life Care has created a connected care platform that enables the seamless exchange of information among different healthcare industry stakeholders. This platform also produces real-world evidence that aids these stakeholders in better understanding their situation by providing them with useful insights.
Meddo
In 2018, Saurabh Kochhar and Dr. Naveen Nishchal established the digital outpatient care platform Meddo in Gurugram. Its goal is to make freestanding clinics into contemporary, full-service health centres that offer high-quality care at affordable prices while standardising and modernising services across all of these facilities. Meddo works with clinics to help them become full-service healthcare facilities that offer all patients a single point of contact for care. They also help to digitally enable the entire healthcare ecosystem using their own systems and technology. The company combines nutrition, lifestyle, and medical testing with a network of well-known specialists that has been carefully picked. Through the business’s mobile app, clients can also view their health records.
PharmEasy
Dharmil Sheth, Mikhil Innani, and Dhaval Shah created the Mumbai-based company PharmEasy in 2015 with the goal of creating a platform that connects people with pharmacies. Users can conveniently order medications from these pharmacies by using the smartphone-based app. The programme also makes extensive use of data processing and analytics tools. More than five million customers are served by its partnerships with more than 80,000 pharmacies in more than 1200 of the nation’s cities.
NetMeds
At netmeds, a wide variety of prescription medications and other health products are easily accessible throughout India. The most recent treatments are now accessible in isolated regions, second- and third-tier cities, and even larger metropolises. Due to the fact that most pharmaceuticals are also available as generic versions, online customers can anticipate significant discounts. In addition to a wide selection of medicines listed under various categories, they offer a wide range of OTC products, such as wellness products, vitamins, diet/fitness supplements, herbal products, pain relievers, diabetic care kits, baby/mother care products, beauty care products, and surgical supplies.
HealthPlix
HealthPlix is an innovative Health-Tech company, bringing technology to the heart of healthcare – doctors. Using assistive AI-powered EMR software, HealthPlix empowers doctors to drive better health outcomes for their patients by providing clinical decision support at the point of care. The start-up currently empowers 10K+ doctors to drive better health outcomes for their patients by providing clinical decision support at the point of care.
More than 22 million patients have been treated using the HealthPlix EMR platform by doctors practising across 16 specialities. HealthPlix doctor base and network spans across 370+ cities in India making it the trusted EMR platform for doctors in the country.
Headquartered in Bangalore, HealthPlix began its operations in 2014. The company is backed by marquee investors like Lightspeed Ventures, Chiratae Venture, Kalaari Capital and JSW Ventures. In 2021, HealthPlix raised $13.5 million as part of its ongoing Series B funding from Lightspeed Ventures and JSW Ventures.
