Over the past two years, there has been an explosion of web portals which have managed to permeate every sphere of e-commerce. However, while recent years have seen an increase in the number of health portals that have come up, one of the first in the field was Sehat.com.
Sehat.com is an online health portal and medical website that offers you an opportunity to reach a large number of online consumers, physicians, healthcare professionals and business executives worldwide.
What sets it apart from those in the field is it’s focus on providing information and data to the patients rather than just acting as a facilitator for setting up appointments.
“Our goal is to harness the word of mouth in health and provide that information to the users helping them make smart decisions. Just like how you would ask your friends for their recommendation on good doctors, we take up that role. But the only difference is we ask the doctors for their recommendations,” says Suresh Kanumoori, CEO, Sehat.com.
Founded in 2012, Sehat.com has become the chosen website by health seekers and doctors in India for the accuracy and credibility of information it publishes on over 100,000 doctors and the 20,000 hospitals listed.
“Be it the medical professionals history, background, specialty, experience, you will find everything you need to know about the doctor on the site,” adds Suresh.
To ensure credibility of the information, the website has a dedicated team that takes care of the veracity of the information. However, one roadblock in the otherwise smooth process is getting doctors of repute on board.
“There are two types of doctors, those who are very free and those who are very busy. The problem with the busy doctors is they don’t need to provide their service online as they already have many patients so they don’t really care for the online appointments. So getting them on the website is still very difficult,” feels Suresh who goes on to add that a complete research and background check is done before the doctors are listed on the portal. Sehat.com, at present receives over 7 to 8 lakh page views and over 150,000 visitors per month.
However, there are plans to expand the services in the near future.
Details: sehat.com