A video call with a doctor was a novelty before 2020, and ordinary after it. Seeing a doctor this way is called an online consultation, or teleconsultation. In India, specialists are concentrated in the large cities. So a consultation on a phone reaches people who would otherwise travel for a day. A group of apps has grown around it, with medicines and tests delivered to the door:
- general medicine
- skin
- mental health
- pregnancy and women's health
This Market Segment is about those apps. Their users are patients, and employers often pay for them as a health benefit. It is a small Market Segment: ten companies, and two more that are covered mainly in other Market Segments.
Every company named here has posted software engineering jobs in India. Famous companies that don't actively hire software engineers in India are left out.
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Back to the schoolteacher from the start of this Market Segment. Four companies here cover general care:
The rest specialise:
Two companies covered mainly in other Market Segments deliver what the doctor orders in the consultation:
An online consultation now starts with an AI. It asks about the patient's symptoms and history, and suggests what kind of doctor is needed. India's national digital health mission, the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission, also gives each patient a health ID, called the ABHA number. With the patient's consent, records can be linked to it. The frontier is the patient whose history travels with them from app to app.
Who these companies hire, and for what, is on What digital health companies hire for.