I agree. We too had proposed an AI enabled telemedicine platform to ACT which solves a lot of issues with the current telemedicine platforms as well as Indian healthcare. Currently, telemedicine's effectiveness is dependent on internet availability and connection along with the patient being able to speak English or the language that the doctor speaks. In order to make it more effective, we have built Arintra (www.arintra.com) - an AI platform that captures the patient's medical history prior to the consultation and can be used in multiple languages by patients in even Tier II and Tier III cities. It improves patient outcomes and generates patient documentation as well. We proposed this idea to ACT grants to connections with government and other industry players and deploy it for enabling patients in even remote areas to avail tele-consultations. The response we got was that they have already granted funds to telemedicine startups (presumably 1mg, Curefit and Practo) and are looking to subsidize the telemedicine consultations for them so that more patients can come onboard. I guess a 10 crore grant plus the amount of money they are pouring into these startups helps them 'subsidize' the CAC for these platforms to get the patients onboard and offer them 'free' consults so that they can own the data - truly a Bharat Health Stack trying to dominate Bharat's telehealth space.

Preeti Bhargava