Apollo's HNG and AAPI to Provide Virtual Consultations from Doctors to Rural India Population

HealthNet Global Limited (HNG) a company owned by the Apollo Hospitals Group, Monday announced the signing of an MoU with the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI) to deliver virtual second opinion consultations.

As part of the collaboration, AAPI members will deliver free virtual consultations to the underserved rural population in states like Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan and other states where HNG has a presence.

Owned by the Apollo Hospital Group, HNG provides remote healthcare to people across India.

The collaboration would also enable patients to seek second opinions from distinguished doctors based in the United States for complicated clinical problems and procedures.

"As part of our collaboration, HNG will connect AAPI members with the underserved rural population through Medeintegra our flagship telemedicine platform.

People across the country will also be able to access the profiles of all the AAPI physicians through our App to seek consultations and second opinions and make informed decisions about their healthcare needs," Apollo Hospitals Group Joint Managing Director Dr Sangita Reddy told reporters.

Any physician from AAPI, who is interested, can join on to the platform from where they would be able to give consultation, she said adding "then we start slotting them to give second opinion service for patients".

"Over the next 90 days we will convert this into a formal agreement and the services will be launched within the next 90 days," Reddy said.

AAPI President Suresh Reddy said it is a great opportunity for all the Indian-origin physicians living in the U.S to serve the country of their birth.

Founded in 1982, AAPI represents a conglomeration of more than 80,000 practicing physicians of Indian origin in the US.

To recall, in March this year, HNG collaborated with an Israel-based startup, Zebra Medical Vision, that uses artificial intelligence (AI) technology to help read medical scans, to deploy later's technology across the India and jointly develop applications suitable for the Indian market, including screening for tuberculosis.

Healthcare Platform Curofy launches Chat feature to help Doctors discuss Real-Time Cases

Curofy, a leading healthcare networking application for doctors has launched ‘Curofy Chat’ feature. The new feature offers a fast and simple messaging service where doctors can chat with his/her fellow doctors and also can share /answer medical cases at the same time. Not only this, one can chat with hospital members and even discuss cases in group.

Curofy is a mobile app that facilitates interaction between doctors from various fields of medicine. With this platform, doctors can quickly locate other physicians, call them, take the second opinion, and seek advice on patient cases through collaboration. It’s an innovative platform for doctors to discover a solution for all their medical prerequisites with just a single click.

The main aim behind the chat feature is to provide a platform for doctors for immediate diagnosis. A survey was conducted on around 4,00,000 doctors where more than 85 % doctors were in favour that Curofy has become a problem-solving platform for them especially in the rural areas where the doctor count is less. Also, with the help of this, doctors can communicate at a faster way using the new innovation in the medical world.



Curofy Chat helps to discuss clinical cases in real time, create private chat room for doctors, connect without sharing the contact, one can form the professional multi-speciality groups and also robust communication. Discussion about problems in such groups can help to reduce the time of consultation and treatment. When doctor is in doubt about any case, he/she can easily get second opinion from his/her choice of doctor in the private chat as well.

Speaking about the feature, Mr. Pawan Gupta, Co-Founder, Curofy, "The chat feature transforms Curofy from being a knowledge sharing platform to an immediate diagnosis platform. This truly has the potential of disrupting doctors' day to day life in a good way. This is one of our biggest launch since our inception.”

Keeping into consideration, the demand and needs of doctors, the chat feature is acting as a new gadget for the members. Not like the other social application, Curofy Chat is specifically dedicated for the medical professional who wants to be in touch with more people and wants to learn more.

Curofy is a doctors’ networking platform which creates a spam-free and secure environment to communicate with each other. With more than 4,00,000 doctors on its platform, Curofy helps to solve more than 400 cases every day. With 4,00,000 cases solved so far, Curofy is indeed the biggest digital repository of patient case in the country. Now, with this ‘Chat’ feature, they are going to help the doctors with better and faster communication.

Now, A Dedicated Matrimony Platform Just for Doctors

Doctors looking to find their life partners from their own profession need to look no further as there is finally a dedicated matrimony portal that will help them find their life partners from their fields!

After establishing its presence as the largest dedicated medical newsportal in India having a readership of more than 1.5 million per month, Medical Dialogues (www.medicaldialogues.in) brings a dedicated matrimonial classified service- Medical Matrimony (https://medicalmatrimony.in) only for medical professionals.

Medical matrimony is a one-stop platform for doctors and allied medical professionals to find their life partners from within their profession. The platform comes in response to a general trend in the Indian medical profession, where doctors prefer to marry other doctors only.

Speaking about the need for such a platform, Founder of Medical Dialogues & Medical Matrimony. Meghna A Singhania said, “Medical Profession is one of the most arduous profession and in this journey of committing to the profession, doctors in our country tend to enter the marital bliss late in their lives as compared to their peers. Further, owing to their laborious schedule and long working hours they tend to give their personal lives a back seat and hence for a successful marriage it is very important to be with someone who understands the demands of the profession. This is the reason most doctors prefer to marry within their profession.”

The Service has instant been a hit with the medical practitioners in the country, with more than 1000+ profiles within three months of its initiation in January 2019.

Co-Founder Dr Prem Aggarwal added, "We are happy to such a positive response ever since we launched this service. We are getting registrations from all over the country, even abroad with doctors using our platform to find their life partners."

[Published unedited via Business Wire India feed]

How Three IIT-Delhi Alumni Created India's Largest Community of Verified Doctors.

Doctors are someone whom we trust with our lives and the lives of our loved ones. Wouldn't it be great if we could have all the doctors under one roof? Well, solving this doctors dilemma is a Gurgaon based startup called Curofy.

What is Curofy?

Boasting to be India's largest community of verified doctors, Curofy has been conceived with the sole objective of bridging the currently visible gap among doctors and help them collaborate easily with each other to solve various medical cases.

By offering a secure and spam-free platform to doctors to communicate with each other, Curofy currently has more than 30000 active doctors and 150 medical cases being discussed daily on the Curofy app.



Using the app, doctors can share cases with each other, call each other without saving numbers and provide referrals to one another. Not only this, using the app, the user will also have access to all the latest developments happening in various medical fields, thus transforming the platform into a collaborative learning one.

With the medical field evolving everyday with new diseases, new cures and new technology, practicing professionals find it a tough task to keep pace with these developments but with Curofy, all this is soon going to be a thing of the past.

How did the journey begin?

The idea for Curofy stuck the three founders mind during a midnight coffee break in the last year of college. With the entrepreneurial bug bitten, the three decided to first research well and then take the final plunge. After graduation, they stuck with good paying MNC jobs, while simultaneously researching and meeting doctors. Once they were fully sure about the concept, they left their jobs and joined hands to give life to Curofy.

USP of the Startup

According to Curofy, being a mobile only platform has proved to be a big plus point for them as it helps them provide their users with a sorted, clutter free environment- something which is a far cry from their busy and complex professional lives. The ease with which the doctors can network with one another is something which no other platform has been able to achieve in the past.

The Founders

Mudit Vijayvergiya, Nipun Goyal and Pawan Gupta are the three genius behind the startup. Belonging to the same college, IIT Delhi, Mudit is a dual degree graduate in chemical engineering, Nipun is a B.Tech from with major in Electrical Engineering and minor in Business Management and Pawan is a B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering.

Funding Details

On the funding front, all is well with Curofy. Having started its funding journey in the reality television-type formatted Young Turks TiE the Knot at TiEcon in October 2014, the startup managed to raise $150,000 owning to great interest from various investors post the event. Recently, the startup industry was abuzz with the news of Curofy raising an undisclosed amount for their pre-series A funding from a Round Glass partners, a US based VC firm.

Big industry names like Rajul Garg (Sunstone Business School, Global Logic, Pine Labs), Alok Mittal (JobsAhead, Canaan), India Quotient, Spice Labs, Dinesh Agarwal (Indiamart), Dr Shuchin Bajaj (Cygnus Hospitals), and Presha Paragash (Zostel, Sol Primero) have invested their trust and money in the company.

Future Plans of the startup

Curofy's immediate plans are to make their app more personalised and offer their users with an even better experience. In addition to this, they wish to keep improving their product and become the best friend of every doctor in town. Further, the startup is also contemplating associating with various top doctors specialising in their fields and making them the face of the Curofy app.

Curofy app is for sure a breath of fresh air in the Indian healthcare field, opening new avenues for digital health by increasing online activity of doctors.