Medical app to empanel doctors from city

In what a first-of-its-kind initiative in the country, doctors across India can now connect and collaborate with each other through a mobile app. Curofy, a medical networking app, will enable safe and secure communication between doctors and is set to enter the Hyderabad market by empanelling doctors.

The Curofy platform will help doctors from across the globe to share their opinions and experiences with those in the city. The platform sees a lot of potential from the city as the government is looking forward for a total investment of Rs 1,000 to Rs 1,200 crore in the next few years.

The company therefore thinks its the right time to spread awareness about the revolutionary mobile app in the city. Doctors can provide referrals, share cases, and have access to most recent, speciality-wise developments taking place in the field’s of medicine, surgery and dentistry, thus providing them a platform for collaborative learning.

The Gurgaon-based startup was founded by three IITians: Mudit Vijayvergiya, Pawan Gupta and Nipun Goyal. Curofy, with its online medical directory, prepopulates profiles of doctors based on information fetched by public; they fill their basic details to enter into the premium network for post verification.

The app provides an access to most recent and special developments taking place in the field of medicine, surgery, nutrition and dentistry. Curofy has recently launched its job module that experienced 20 per cent application rate of medical jobs in its pilot phase.

Although Curofy is a doctor only app, it can play a very critical role for patients, as most of the secondary and tertiary treatment decisions for a patient are made by a doctor, who is either the patient’s relative, family doctor or a known physician.

A doctor from a small town says “medical news is in your own hands once you come on the app”. Curofy wants doctors to be able to find any doctor that they would currently look up online or offline in a more efficient way.

So a physician for instance would use Curofy to find for his patient, an orthopaedic knee surgeon in Delhi, who has done his graduation from the top ten medical colleges in India. It takes only few seconds to map the exact doctor.

Speaking current scenario, Mudit, co-founder, Curofy, says, “The present ratio of medical professionals with population in the country reflects the big gap between infrastructure and expertise. Curofy is one such platform which can help to shrink this gap and connect medical professionals from cities to the small towns."

“In as little as four months of its launch, over 5,000 doctors, including super-specialists from premium hospitals like Medanta, Apollo, Max and Saket City and physicians from 70 cities, are using the app and actively using it amongst themselves,” says other co-founder, Nipun Goyal.