Past, Present and Future of Health apps

Past, Present & Future

By:Mudit Vijayvergiya

Co-founder, Curofy

Of Health Apps

Health apps – The inevitable next step

What’s the sudden hype ? Is it even worth the

time?

Well, almost everybody says ‘Yes’

But Why?

NEED!!!

And, as they say Need is the Mother of all invention

Well even..

Before going any further on Health apps……….

Lets dig up the past.........

It was

2007

May

Seems almost Pre-historic…..

The healthcare industry in India was largely field driven

Pharma was spending millions to reach out to doctors

And patients felt the brunt of the cost

Well Doctors, they just needed a little respite….

A quick trivia……

What is the doctor to patient Ratio in the country?

It’s

1700:

Change was inevitable

And then came the Push………

The

Next

Frontier

And……………..

The facebook frenzy

Things slowly but surely started to change….

With time people found a parallel identity

And New Home

Its Online

Patients started consulting Google for searching doctors

The same time when flipkart came into being…..

And being online became the new normal

Zomato, bookmyshow, Makemytrip came into being

But how are they even relevant??

They all solved a basic need

They all made a tedious offline process easy

Today all the Health apps are doing the same thing

(D2C)

Doctors’Education

(D2D)

MedicalEcommerce

So what’s the future has in store?

They say it’s VR..

Wearable consumer tech to become mainstream

Entire vital check ups on a smartphone….

My vision for the healthcare system…….

Holistic approach to healthcare

Technology should only be an enabler

The apps, the stakeholders are pieces of a puzzle

With you being the centre piece

Healthcare