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In 2020, our lives were affected by something coming from a very unexpected place in this day and age, a Pandemic. 4 years after and many documentaries and medical articles down the road, some controversial and some publicly recognized, the common denominator has not changed drastically — A hands-on direct communication channel that connects the sophisticated world of regional healthcare to the end user, the patient or the common man.
Over the next 2 years, since 2020, I would juggle my life between career and investing time studying healthcare in India and the world in general, around pandemic management and COVID19 specifically.
source: https://xcov19.dev/p/state-of-indian-healthcare-pt-v-bharat
What I found out while going down this rabbit hole was a more pressing need: Healthcare is disconnected.
I have since written about it, spoken to health professionals and patients, did surveys to understand the fundamental problem and realized a common trend:
- Netizens google their symptoms and self-administer treatments
- 85% of the world's population is in the emerging market and faces the same perennial disease outbreaks
- Even first-world countries like US lack a robust healthcare infrastructure for effective patient management, be it task-shifting, streamlining administrative workflows, community driven healthcare programs for marginal or refugees or low-cost healthcare…
