Welcome folks! This being the first post, I have to describe how it all started?
I have read and heard about so many interesting stories of how it all began for them? Some I have learned over time are made-up, dressed-up to make it sound more interesting and exciting! Here is simply the vanilla version for us.
I started living in Bangalore after a long time in US. Time came to purchase a car, to be honest the experience of car buying was much better in India than US in terms of the pampering. And to add to it, I was very impressed with the SMS messages I used to receive – such as “Your 5000 km service being due”. And once I drove the car into the service center, I used to get almost a live update of what’s happening over there (about 3-4 messages with confirmations). Then I started talking to friends about why such a service made sense to manage other things – top on that list was Healthcare.
The conversations concluded that many Healthcare systems in the market are too much focused on procedures, processes, financial information, data and so on. Thus we gave ourselves a mission for Smarter Healthcare (SmartRx) to improve the interface between patients and the complex Healthcare systems in place to impact patient health and healthcare practice in a positive way.
What we have tried to do since then is to take this idea and marry it with some of the requirements of a Healthcare provider and come up with a solution for Proactive Health Management. Several months after the eureka moment, I am more confident and determined now that we can improve delivery of healthcare using these concepts.
