TOP 5 Health-tech brands

Shreya Kaura

HealthCube
This is a point-of-care technology enabled diagnostics service provider. It offers medically balanced, technologically sophisticated, handy and portable diagnosis system, similar to a set-top box that can be used easily anywhere by anyone with minimal training. It provides accurate results for reliable patient screening, and can conduct 30-plus tests across various parameters like vitals, biochemistry, infectious diseases, and cardiac markers in three to 15 minutes. The results are saved electronically on the cloud with the help of an Android-based application and accessed easily on mobile phones and laptops. The device can be used in the absence of electricity or internet, so is ideally suited to remote, far-flung locations which lack access to doctors and diagnostic labs.

Hospido
Hospido.in is a tech-enabled online platform dedicated to treating cancer patients all over India. It empowers cancer patients and caregivers to get easy access to right treatment and advice, and provides high quality treatment for all types of cancer. It recently launched Cancer Dost, an automated AI-enabled chatbot that gives free advice on all types of cancer treatment. This tool gains importance since India has a poor oncologist to patient ratio, and patients from smaller cities are often clueless about the variety of affordable treatment options. It provides free access to the consultation and is especially designed for smaller cities, to get easy access to the right treatment.

MedCords
MedCords interconnects all stakeholders of healthcare ecosystem – patients, doctors, pharmacies and laboratories – to serve and resolve various issues in healthcare services while collaborating with 5000-plus doctors and 25000-plus medical stores. It provides integrated solutions through its two apps – Aayu app (for consumers) and Sehat Sathi app (for medical stores), to bring a faster, convenient and trustworthy order for medicines for every citizen on their fingertips.

Medikabazaar
This is country’s B2B bazaar for health-tech equipment and devices. Catering to medical establishments across the country, the company has partnered with over 13,000 suppliers and caters to 70,000-plus medical establishments and 1.5 lakh independent practitioners.

Flydoc
Flydoc.in helps in providing high-end surgical procedures affordable and accessible to patients who can get access to surgeons who have trained at India’s top medical schools or have been associated with the top corporate hospitals of Delhi and can avail of their services at a hospital near their homes at a cost that could be 50 to 60 per cent lower than that of large hospitals. Most of the common procedures in orthopaedics, neurosurgery, plastic surgery, gynaecology, urology and ENT can be performed in small hospitals and nursing homes. Safety, sterility and hygiene is never compromised and complex procedures are performed at designated hospitals.