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30 December, 2009 | HealthcareMagic.com featured in LiveMint, Wall Street Journal |
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| There’s an interesting article on LiveMint about Online Healthcare trends in India, HealthcareMagic is featured in it -- Online doctor-patient consultation firms such as Healthcare Magic and online health content firms such as WebMD in the US. Some VC firms that invested in such firms early on include Accel Partners, which put $2.5 million (Rs11.68 crore) in HealthcareMagic in February
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23rd September, 2009 | HealthcareMagic.com featured in Hindustan Times |
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| You could finish reading a magazine or two, cover to cover, while waiting for the doctor to see you at most specialists’ clinics. And when you are finally ushered in to meet the doctor after a two-week wait, you are out of the clinic in less than five minutes. Your pocket is lighter by at least Rs 500 and you aren’t even satisfied with the meeting. But the wait may just have got less frustrating thanks to Healthcaremagic.com, a health care website. The website’s Super Specialist Opinion Service, launched last month, offers to put you in touch with a specialist, especially when you’re seeking a second opinion about your health condition. And it costs far lesser than a round to a specialist usually would. The website has a panel of about 18 specialist doctors to choose from, including cardiologists, urologists, orthopaedic surgeons and even oncologists. You can choose a specialist from this list, view the doctor’s profile and send him an email requesting a phone appointment.
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07th August, 2009 | HealthcareMagic.com featured in Economic Times |
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| "IIT graduate Kunal Sinha founded Healthcare Magic in Bangalore in February 2008, after selling his software company, TechUnified, the year before. Healthcare Magic allows users to connect with doctors through phone and live Internet chat. It has 34 doctors on its payroll and tie-ups with 150 doctors, and is planning to associate with 400 more. The associate doctors are paid by Healthcare Magic, after collecting patient feedback post the interaction. Sinha says, “We are a business enterprise with a social motive. And that motive is to make health advice accessible to even the remotest corners of the country, where a cell phone is enough to speak to a specialist in a metropolitan hospital.” The company has also tied up with networks like Reliance, Aircel, BPL, Tata and Idea to offer its service through a short code. Healthcare Magic was funded by Accel Partners in early 2009 and has done 2.7 lakh patient interactions so far. "
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09th June, 2009 | HealthcareMagic.com featured in LiveMint, Wall Street Journal |
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| "Kauser Ahmed, a real estate consultant in Bangalore, accompanied his diabetic mother to the hospital to ask the dietician for a meal plan, only to be put off by a long waiting list and multiple consultants on leave. Instead, Ahmed sought out HealthcareMagic.com, an online medical service. By the end of the day, following a series of online consultations, his mother had a meal chart designed for her condition. Opting for medical help online is now a familiar routine for 29-year-old Kauser. He seeks advice on a range of issues, from diet and fitness to childcare (he has a nine-month-old baby) through HealthcareMagic’s Rs1,200 annual subscription programme, which offers his family unlimited access (over the Internet or phone) to the panel of 34 doctors working with the Bangalore-based company, which expanded its services to New Delhi earlier this year. " | |||
21st April, 2009 | HealthcareMagic.com featured in LiveMint, Wall Street Journal |
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| "VC funding: new rules of the game: Showing customer traction also helps while making a pitch to investors, say start-ups. Rx HealthCare Magic Pvt. Ltd, a Bangalore firm that runs a health care portal (www.healthcaremagic.com) highlighted the offline component of the business—offering insurance services—while making a pitch to its investors to demonstrate multiple revenue possibilities. “We showed very openly that we had big names as our B2C customers. VCs are brand-conscious and big names do assure them,” says founder and CEO Kunal Sinha (B2C is short for business-to-consumer, a model referring to consumer-focused businesses). The start-up, which raised $2.5 million from Accel Partners two months ago, approached four VCs before finalizing the deal." | |||
14th February, 2009 | HealthcareMagic.com Featured in CNBC-TV18 - Young Turks Innovators |
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14th October, 2008 | HealthcareMagic.com featured in HealthScreen |
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| "We appriciate HealthcareMagic for coming-up with a unique concept offering medical services to common man. We're pleased to inform you that we have carried an article about your organization in our monthly, HealthScreen which is circulated over 80,000 clients in the medical community." | |||
21st April, 2008 | The MidDay | Help at a Click |
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| If you're tired of doing rounds at Hospitals or those never ending queues just to see a Doc, the site HealthcareMagic could be a better alternatie... | |||
07th April, 2008 | The MINT | eMarketing strategy to Pharma Sector |
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The sector is also seeing the launch of Web 2.0 start-ups such as HealthcareMagic.com. Launched in January, HealthcareMagic plans to build an ecosystem of online healthcare. Consumers can share experiences & opinions about Doctors, Chat with a Doctor, Compare Healthcare Insurance Iolicies & But medcines onine... | |||
19th March, 2008 | PharmaBiz | eMarketing strategy to Pharma Sector |
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In order to maximize the capabilities of internet, Healthcare Magic, a healthcare portal has inked a pact with a leading pharma company in the country under the e:marketing strategy initiative. The portal will help promote the pharma major's prescription-based portfolio... | |||
27th March, 2008 | HealthcareMagic.com featured in Web Magazines & Blogs |
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HealthcareMagic was featured in various web magazines like CrunchBase, PharmaBiz, Web123, Yahoo! OurCity, New India Press. Compared with various Healthcare portals on Pluggd.in and rated as best Healthcare Portal in India... | |||
19th March, 2008 | The Times of India | New Healthcare Portal Launched |
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Bangalore: Want to cut long queues to consult a doctor? A healthcare portal — www.healthcaremagic.com — allows you to do just that.
Launched on Tuesday as a pilot project, the portal aims to bring healthcare
providers and customers on web- and mobile-based platforms to facilitate consultation and referral services. Launching the portal, founder of Techunified, Kunal Sinha, said: “In phase I, we’ll have medical consultation and referral between 9 am and 9 pm. The site will help locate, compare and fix appointments with doctors and hospitals. Soon, the platform will be available in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Pune and Chandigarh.’’... |
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6th February, 2008 | Business Standard | Portal to help you find Doctor |
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For a denizen of the city to find a doctor he/she can trust, need not be something to fret about any longer.
If you want to consult a doctor online for a simple ailment, then again you can chat with a doctor and get the right guidance where to go and what to do, Healthcare Magic, a portal for medical consultation and referral with a call centre, will facilitate it.
Healthcare Magic, said to be the first real-time consultation portal in the country, aims to bring the healthcare service provider and customer together on a web and mobile-based platform. Healthcare Magic has a panel of doctors who will provide consultation online, on live chat. |
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18th January, 2008 | Economic Times | Feeling Sick? Logon to Portal for Dctors... |
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YOU are new to Bangalore, unwell and need a doctor. Chances are that you would ask a neighbour or friend for a reference. Now, you could just look up the nearest doctor or hospital on the Healthcare Magic portal. The new online site, to be launched initially in Bangalore later this month, will be an interactive interface between customers and healthcare service providers.
The company plans to provide the service on a mobile platform soon. According to second-time entrepreneur and CEO of Healthcare Magic, Kunal Sinha, the portal will have features like search for doctors and hospitals, user reviews and ratings of doctors and hospitals, comparison of prices for different procedures across various segments, discussion forums, insurance policies, sale of medical products like diabetes meter or blood pressure instruments and prescribed drugs and other services. |
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