Health Care at Home, a JV between Dabur India promoter Burman family and founder of Health Care At Home, UK, has acquired Health Impetus Pvt for an undisclosed amount.
Besides offering services for disease management, the integration will also provide patient care services like EMI schemes for chronic ailments like cancer, diabetes, hepatitis B and the like to help patients continue treatment and meet high cost of medication, Health Care at Home (HCAH) said in a statement.
The company, however, did not disclose the financial details of the acquisition.
Health Care at Home Pvt Ltd Co-founder and CEO Vivek Srivastava said: "With this acquisition, HCAH has increased its bouquet of services to pharma companies. HCAH brings superior clinical skills and direct to patient pharmacy delivery skills, thus becoming a one-stop solution to the pharma companies in the patient's journey."
At Health Care at Home India, the endeavour is to put in place a holistic system of quality healthcare, which is easily accessible at the patient's doorstep, he added.
"This was a natural match for both the companies and I am confident that the synergies between both the companies will help in evolving superior quality solutions for our clients in the pharma sector and patients," Health Impetus Pvt Founder Pankaj Sindhu said.
HCAH provides a wide range of medical and clinical services such as setting up ICU at home, home cardiac care, home oncology services, post-surgical care and home pulmonology services that cover a wide range of ailments.
The Physical Appointment booking service (formerly popular
under the brand name Apollo Edoc) can be availed for more than 4500 doctors from cardiologist
[https://www.Askapollo.Com/physical-appointment/doctors/cardio logist ] to gynaecologist to oncologist [https://www.Askapollo.Com/physical-appointment/doctors/oncolo gist ] under the Apollo group and is spread across a pool of 220 specialties. Instant appointment can be booked for any doctor through a simple 3-step process, saving one of the hassles of standing in queues and waiting at the hospital premise for an appointment.
A patient can also consult a doctor through his laptop or mobile from the convenience of his home or office through the Online Consultation
[https://www.Askapollo.Com/online-consultation ] service offered by the platform. Through the service, a doctor can be consulted via video, phone call or email. The 100% online virtual consultation service hosts more than 1000 doctors across 54 specialties. Patients can consult a family physician, an Apollo specialist or avail specialised tumour board consultation that comprise a group of multidisciplinary doctors who meet and review cases and recommend a personalised therapy and treatment.
Other services include accessing patient health records
online, booking a preventive health check package or requesting for healthcare service delivery at the doorstep.
About Apollo Hospitals Founded by the visionary, Dr Prathap C. Reddy, Apollo Hospitals is the country's largest private sector player in hospitals and pharmacies. Currently, the company has 70 hospitals across the nation with a total bed capacity of 9774 beds as on June 30, 2016. The total number of pharmacies as on June 30, 2016 was 2,383. The company also has a dominant presence in retail healthcare activities, through its thick network of 70 Specialty Clinics, 72 Dental Clinics, 44 Sugar Clinics, 6 Dialysis Centres, 137 Diagnostic Centres, 11 Day surgery centres and 9 Cradles (birth care centres) under the subsidiary, Apollo Health & Lifestyle Ltd (AHLL).
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