Simplifies healthcare access for millions of consumers in Indonesia. Also expands deeper into the Philippines
September 1st 2015, New Delhi: Practo, Asia’s leading healthcare platform, today announced its entry into the Indonesian market, the 4th most populous country in the world to bring its award-winning product Practo Search to the region. Practo Search will be available both in Indonesian bahasa and English.
This will be the first time Indonesians will be able to find the right doctor and book appointments online. Practo Search enables consumers to search through this verified database of doctors and find the one that’s right for them. Consumers can search using doctor’s name, specialization, and even symptoms. Once they get results, consumers can click through the Practo Profile for each professional or establishment to read more details including years of experience, qualifications, affiliations and specializations as well as see clinic photos and get GPS co-ordinates of location for easy turn-by-turn navigation right from within the Practo App.
With this, Practo will provide Indonesians with the largest database of doctors in the country. Consumers in Indonesia will be able to search through over 4200 verified doctors in over 60% of all clinics across Jakarta DKI using Practo website or app which have been specially built for the region.
Over the next few months, Practo will also expand its coverage to the broader Jakarta Raya area covering Bogor, Depok, Tangerang and Bekasi regions. Additionally, Practo will expand its consumer offering to cover more healthcare segments such as wellness, fitness, pharma, preventive and curative medicine. Consumers will be able to access Practo offering through Practo app – a single go-to resources for their healthcare requirements.
Simultaneously, Practo is also embarking on expansion within the Philippines to completely cover Cebu, Cavite and Batangas regions as well as expand product lines to cover more healthcare segments across wellness, fitness, medicine, preventive and curative as well to ensure that consumers have a single app they need for all their healthcare requirements.
Practo already covers the Greater Manila area and lists over 70% of all doctors in the region (over 11,000).
Practo, in the Philippines, is also seeing tremendous adoption of Practo Ray – the cloud-based SaaS practice management solution used by thousands of doctors and clinics around the world managing millions of patients every year. Practo Ray is fast becoming the default choice of software for all doctors in the Philippines and is helping to bring them to the digital era.
“We are on a mission to help people live better, healthier lives globally. I am thrilled to bring our world class healthcare experience to millions of consumers across Indonesia and the Philippines. Over the next several months we will continue our global expansion to be present in over 10 countries by March and enable over 2 Billion consumers to make better healthcare decisions” – Shashank ND, Founder & CEO, Practo.
