A mobile app to let you find the best doctors near you
New Delhi, July 02, 2015: 1mg.com , India’s leading m-health platform, today launched ‘Doctors by 1mg’ on the Android platform, to help Delhi NCR discover best doctors and book appointments. A companion to the 1mg App which is the leading consumer health platform with over 3 M downloads, the new launch demonstrates company’s commitment towards building a platform that will aid users in managing their health effectively.
The app allows users to search for doctors by their area of specialization as General Practitioners, Gynecologists, Cardiologists, Dentists etc. The app also covers practitioners of alternative therapies, Homeopathy and Ayurveda. Handy filters on the home screen let you refine your selection by Doctor’s Fees and Distance from the doctor (in Kms). One key feature offered by the app is Ask for Recommendation which will help users get doctor recommendations from their friends and family anonymously.
Talking about the product Gaurav Agarwal, CTO 1mg said “With the launch of Doctors by 1mg, we aim to address a key pain point that everyone faces today – finding a doctor that my network trusts. We believe that finding the right doctor is a very ‘social’ process – and we want to mimic the real life experience of finding a doctor in the online world by incorporating recommendations of people in your social network.” He added, “We strongly believe that proliferation of smartphones and pervasiveness of technology will transform and will help us realize our vision of making healthcare understandable and accessible for a billion Indians.
Doctors by 1mg launches with a well-researched database of ~15k doctors in Delhi NCR and is constantly being enhanced. The app also consists of a significant number of verified reviews & ratings (over 5000), covers over 230 specialties and 10k clinics.
Mr. Prashant Tandon, Founder at 1mg is excited about the expansion and said “Our new launch is strongly aligned with our core goal of enabling our users to take informed decisions for effective healthcare. We want to connect fragmented healthcare ecosystems to give patients a one-stop m-health solution and for this we are continuously developing new products. We will expand this service rapidly and aim to cover doctors across 15+ cities before the end of the year”
Mobile Health is the need of the hour as India aims to make healthcare more accessible to its burgeoning population and with over 3 million downloads 1mg is the leading innovator in this space. The company is expanding rapidly across multiple dimensions of m-healthcare as evidenced by recently added products viz a viz Medicine Reminders, Drug Interaction & the recent acquisition of Homeobuy.com for alternative medicines (AYUSH category).
