Most of this software is sold to American clinics, hospitals and health plans, where the electronic health record is the system a practice runs on, and much of it is built in India. ModMed builds its records for American specialists in Hyderabad, Veradigm and Altera Digital Health build theirs in Pune, and Netsmart, Dexcom and Omnicell have large teams in Bengaluru. India has its own digital health companies too, built for Indian patients, like Practo for booking and consulting doctors, PharmEasy for medicines at the door, Tricog Health for reading ECGs from small-town clinics, and sugar.fit for managing diabetes.
For an engineer, this is work where the industry's rules shape the code. Patient data is private and tightly regulated, and records have to move between systems in agreed health-data standards such as FHIR. The Software Engineer, Healthtech, a software engineer hired by a health company, often for ordinary product work and sometimes for health-data standards, is far more common here than elsewhere, and .NET engineers are in strong demand for the long-lived record systems. Unusually for product companies, this Industry Vertical also has a wide door for freshers and juniors.
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The Market Segments follow a patient from the record and the note, through the front desk and the phone, to care over months, watching from a distance and the pharmacy at the end.
The records of clinics, hospitals and behavioural-health providers come from companies like ModMed, athenahealth, Veradigm, Altera Digital Health and Netsmart.
AI that listens to the visit and writes the note, and the clinical references doctors consult, come from companies like Commure, Suki and Wolters Kluwer.
Booking, reminders, digital check-in and the AI receptionist come from companies like Relatient, Get Well, DexCare and Weave.
Consulting a doctor by video or phone is offered by companies like Practo, MediBuddy, Teladoc Health and Clinikally.
Programmes that coach people through diabetes, weight or joint pain come from companies like Hinge Health, Welldoc, sugar.fit and Elevate Now.
Glucose sensors, personal ECG devices and the AI that reads them come from companies like Dexcom, AliveCor, Tricog Health and Anumana.
Hospital pharmacy cabinets, software for independent pharmacies and medicines delivered to the door come from companies like Omnicell, BlinkRx and PharmEasy.
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