![]() ![]() 4 India’s health system consists of government-run health facilities and private health providers. 3 Real-time surveillance was initiated in the form of Integrated Health Information Platform (IHIP) in 7 states in 2018. Surveillance of infectious diseases in India has been conducted through the Integrated Disease Surveillance Project (IDSP) network since 2004. India responded with an initial travel restriction and thermal screening of inbound travelers in February 2020, which was followed by the largest population-level lockdown from 25 March, 2020 till 31 May, 2020. 1 Countries across the globe have implemented various pharmacological and non-pharmacological control measures with mixed results. Free of cost availability of mHealth apps have the potential to create a difference.With more than 63000000 cases and more than 1400000 deaths reported worldwide by December 1 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic is the biggest human health threat since the deadly Influenza Pandemic of 1918. This notable and gradual change in behavior is an important factor for mHealth adoption. The statics shows that more and more Indians are accessing the Internet and that too on their smart phones. The number of mobile internet users in India will hit 500 million by June and by 2020 and the country will have an estimated 702 million Smartphone users, said experts at the seventh edition of the India Internet Day, recently held in New Delhi. The scope for adopting mHealth as an alternate healthcare solution is booming because 82% of internet users in India have said they cannot live without internet, as per the recent survey by Ipsos. Patient or User can pick and choose the offer and get the medicines by a certified chemist and can get the tests done from a certified diagnostic labs. Nearby chemists ad lab operators at the same time receives the 'request to offer' price, free delivery, sample collection from home, discounts etc options. The user can search nearly medical shop or diagnostic lab and see the pricing / rates for the medicines and tests he wants to buy. With this expected growth of ePharmacy or mHealth, the challenges in livelihood of 8.5 lakh offline chemists will also rise. His vision is to safeguard these offline chemist retailer market from the upcoming giant mHealth players. His model is an aggregator model, where in he is integrating all offline chemists and diagnostic lab operators on an app platform. It is estimated that by 2025 it may grow upto 10-15% of the total size. which is just 1% of traditional Indian Pharma market. As he said, the estimated size of Indian ePharmacy market is Rs. These apps are Practo, 1MG, MeraPatient, MedPlus, Ask Apollo, PharmEasy etc have made a win-win business models and are helping users to save money from their health cost by providing discounts and best of the other offers and services.įew weeks back I met a founder of MeraPatient App, he has a unique business model of safeguarding traditional chemists and Labs operators' market in India. Some of the mHealth apps which are picking-up faster user-base are farseeing a huge benefits in future by 2025. The above statistics by Google trend help motivates all stakeholders in the Indian healthcare ecosystem to put an collective effort to achieve wider adoption of mHealth in India. But on the other hand, the population is getting more tech-savvy and demanding convenient ways to receive healthcare services. With the increasing concern over lifestyle diseases and some specific virus, access to basic healthcare is becoming challenge because of inadequate infrastructure and resources, mainly due to lack of smart data management and logistics management. ![]()
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