HealthKartPlus Emerges as Proud Winner of South Asia?s Best Mobile Innovation in the Health Category of mBillionth Awards 2013

Submitted by ITV Production on Jul 22, 2013

MUMBAI: The application offers a plethora of services for entire populace. It delivers clinical information and also acts as a medical dictionary for the common man, physicians, medical students, nurses and other healthcare professionals. By providing such detailed information about the meds, this pocket chemist empowers the common man to have a rightful conversation about their medication with Healthcare professionals. It?s a handy tool to compare and choose the medicine alternate which can bring huge saving on one?s medication bills. If consumer thinks deciphering prescription is an impossible task, well there is no need to worry. By simply uploading the prescription through the app or website, the consumers can order for their medicine needs and also refer to records of previous prescriptions.

Prashant Tandon, Co-Founder said ?We started HealthKartPlus as a platform to enhance transparency and consumer understanding of healthcare. We believe in empowering the consumers and helping them make an informed decision. Getting recognized by the platform like mBillionth award further strengthens our resolve in this direction?.

The mBillionth Award acknowledges South Asia as a key hub of the world?s mobile & telecom market in terms of penetration and innovation, and promotes the best of mobile-based implementations. It is first-of-its-kind initiative in the region recognizing and felicitating mobile innovations, applications and content services delivery.

HealthKartPlus has built a technical platform to connect local pharmacies directly to the consumers. HealthKartPlus is also in alignment with the government projects like Jan Aushadi and directives which support the doctors to write generic medicines to help consumers save on medication costs.

Other winners included Nokia life and Arogya World, moSQuit (mobile based Surveillance Quest using it). Sevamop, HeWeFi ? Health Wellness & Fitness, Scale-up and Replication of CommCare inBihar were also amongst the finalists.

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