Iclinic Healthcare Private Limited

Here is a brief personal background and a detail about iClinic Healthcare. I was, till end 2012, the Chief Commercial Officer for Vodafone India and before that, Operations Director North & East India. I left Vodafone to set up iClinic Healthcare which is a venture aimed at creating an IT platform enabling scheduling and communication and collaboration between 2 or more doctors and patients to allow remote and online diagnosis and prescription. Along with the above IT platform we are signing up specialists and super specialists and creating an ecosystem to serve patients across the world. We will also be signing up general physicians and nursing homes in relevant markets. 1. We will use the above platform and the ecosystem for the following business models:  a. Assisted Remote Consults - to enable Patients in Upcountry markets and in Africa to consult Super specialists and Senior Specialists based in Metro cities in India.        Patient is assisted by a local Doctor (General Physician)       Patient gets a printed consultation summary from the specialists        and a printed and signed prescription from the local doctor       We are setting these up in independent small hospitals which have general physicians but no real specialists. We have two operating units - in Karnal, Haryana and in Lagos, Nigeria. More are planned shortly in Sirsa, Jamshedpur, Dhanbad, Mandi etc.   We are also piloting this concept with Corporates who have offices and factories in remote areas. We have tied up with Vodafone and Aircel for these pilots for their offices and guest houses in Ranchi and Guwahati   b. Web based Consults - we are setting up an E-commerce portal that will enable services like Doctor-on-line (24x7), Video call with super-specialist by appointment, offline consult with specialists for seeking 2nd opinions and on-line advice from the comfort of one's home / office. The site is practically ready and we shall be commencing ''beta'' trials in the next fortnight. 2. We have over 55 specialists and super specialists of various specialities signed up and have a tie up with major hospital chains like Max, Fortis, Nova, Global, Medica Synergie etc.  3. We have a very close tie up with Medica Superspeciality Hospital, Kolkata. We not only have over 20 of their specialists on our panel, we are also providing our platform to them to connect their main hospital in Kolkata with their satellite set up in Jamshedpur. Similar tie ups with other large hospital chains is in progress. 4. Our platform allows patients and doctors to save their consultation summaries and uploaded reports so that when they attend a “repeat” consult, they have all the data available in the form of an ERM (electronic medical record. 5. We are now regularly doing consults on our platform - having completed over 150 consults till date - in the last 2 months since we commercialized the concept.  This service is of great value to patients in upcountry places of India – essentially District Headquarters which are far from Metros where all the super specialists and senior doctors reside. The process of “consulting” (like an OPD consult) such senior doctors becomes easy and highly economical and hassle free and time-saving as it precludes travelling long distances for patients. Likewise, for patients based in metros too, our E-commerce site will be of great use to allow them quick and easy and 24x7 access to a medical practitioner and also easily consult senior doctors for 2nd opinions. We are now looking to consolidate all the consultation sites that we have launched and also complete beta trials on our E-commerce platform and launch it in the next 3 months. Thank you for your interest Sanjoy Mukerji (Managing Director)

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