WONDRx – Fostering digital healthcare in India
Written by – Mehak Malhotra
Telemedicine has emerged to be the most synchronic and ultramodern approach in the Health Ecosystem today. The Covid crisis had a major influence on the proliferation of telemedicine in the country. The lockdown put people in a state of a predicament on how to get in steady contact with the doctors and medical staff, thereby ensuring a successive expansion of telemedicine.
WONDRx is the most promising enterprise in India to launch a digital platform, enabling all healthcare providers to administer their business digitally. WONDRx platform does not limit to Doctor’s eConsultation but also includes other Healthcare Providers like Nurses, Dieticians, Labs, Physiotherapists, and every other Healthcare Provider to execute their business digitally with respective consumers through the WONDRx platform. It is conceptualized with a vision to establish credible changes in the Health Ecosystem through incessant and contemporary technology, ameliorating the life of patients.
One of the most innovative products launched recently is ‘Smart Rx paper’ for doctors, particularised in digitalizing hand-written prescriptions instantly, record clinical voice instructions of the doctors with a tick on the Smart Rx paper, and play videos with just a tick of the pen on the Smart Rx paper. The WONDRx consumer app is another successful innovation whereas a user, patients can access multiple healthcare applications just under one roof. Conspicuous to say, the WONDRx consumer app renders enormous facilities.
Procuring an edge over others
The company’s unique and integrated digitalization of products for doctors, consumers, and healthcare providers paves way for accumulating the entire healthcare ecosystem under one platform. This gives them a cogent and strong edge over their peers in the industry. The SMART Rx solution is a unique and pioneer innovation of this enterprise which stands out amongst hundreds of other Prescription digitization solutions in the market which force the Doctor to Type instead of Writing. The love of writing a Prescription is hard to let go but with SMART Rx paper the Doctor continues to handwrite the Prescription while digitizing the handwritten medical records thereby creating a massive Digital Prescription base.
Substantially, start-ups focus majorly on fixing diagnostics, medicines, and telemedicine but WONDRx amalgamates all these issues on a customary platform while expanding the digital reach to Doctors, Consumers, Ambulances, Pharmacies, Rehab centers, Labs, Blood Banks, Dieticians, etc. They have aggregated more than 25 categories of healthcare providers with a gross volume of more than 180 thousand Healthcare providers on the WONDRx platform which are available to conduct Digital business during any kind of lockdown. Most recently, the company has launched its ‘Vaccination’ feature for consumers and healthcare providers.
Incessant R&D to enhance growth
The growth of any organization relies highly on its Research and Development. Persistent innovation and awareness of what is imperative and trending in the market hold the utmost eminence. WONDRx strongly believes in a continual process of technological advancements and enhancing the offerings on current products to ensure sustainability in the industry. The company has invested 2.5 years to develop and launch the product after prodigious research and extensive market trials to keep the maximization of output in-tact. The team efficaciously works towards launching a new feature every 60 to 90 days. This has only been practicable with their vigorous research and analysis of industry insights.
Positioning government in the journey of startups in India
According to the key personnel, the government has functioned as directional support in the expansion of WONDRx by various means. The employees at the company routinely attend all sessions and seminars relevant to startups organized by the government to promote a Digital India. The government sector invests an escalated focus in the development of the healthcare industry, thereby, benefiting the enterprise.
Safeguarding the contentment of employees
Work culture plays a remarkably important role in the success or failure of any enterprise. At WONDRx, the management leaves no stone unturned to maintain harmony and receptivity within the premises. They believe appreciation is the biggest compensation for employees to achieve higher, acquire new skills, and follow their dreams. The gratification of achieving something by own hard work renders empowered self-worth and is more rewarding than anything. Uplifting the employees by pouring words of wisdom to them, imparting knowledge and congruous feedback are some of the means followed by the superiors in the organization to ensure the contentment of employees.
Adorning achievements and milestones
In a short span of time, WONDRx has conciliated tremendous recognition and various mentions by highly-regarded organizations for the “Startup to watch for” category. They have procured humungous attention from Media, Industry, and Investors through their innovation on Smart Rx, eConsult, and vaccination module.
Irradiating future endeavors
The elemental motive of the company is to serve the industry by resolving all the issues that the Medical fraternity, providers, and consumers face. They intend to devise a platform that renders all the healthcare needs, emblazing a futuristic growth of Digital Healthcare. The team emulates to become a stupendous name that facilitates simple yet availing access to medical healthcare by integrating them through a medium of digital platform. The journey from physical healthcare to Digital healthcare has been magnificent. It is a culmination of undeviating hard work that the company strives to follow uniformly in the future as well as to establish a well-esteemed market value and leading name in the digital healthcare industry.
Words of wisdom for aspiring entrepreneurs
The Founder & CEO, Pankaj Sindhu, and the Co-founder & Director, Pankaj Agrawal have a few words of wisdom for the potential entrepreneurs with a vision to embark on a career in the healthcare industry.
They believe the youth should analyze the insights and conduct a requisite experiment until they procure the niche. Accelerating the niche once it has been found is equitably important and exigent. Acquiring the right talent and prolonging the positivity to trounce the hardships will lend a hand in clinching a substantial hold in the industry.
A moral note for readers
WONDRx platform is forging towards becoming a prominent name in the healthcare industry. From urban and rural consumers, doctors, pharmacies, hospitals to dieticians, they have covered all radical grounds to serve. The company’s vision of digitalizing the physical healthcare space has concluded in abolishing skepticism and feasibility matters. The application has provided a digital copy of prescriptions, advisory videos for patients, reference of nearby pharmacy and pathology labs to the consumers for the lifetime without charging a single penny in exchange.
WONDRx has unequivocally decoded the loopholes of the industry and overpowered them with perpetual and virtuous hard work.
