Hemant Bhardwaj, CEO, MD and co-founder of PMHLC, said, “With our business model which is a win-win for each stakeholder in the ecosystem, we anticipate achieving one million transactions within 12 months of operations. Zigy.com will connect chemists and druggists with consumers.”

Zigy.com, integrated with Zigy HealthVault, is a first-of-its-kind patient-controlled electronic health record system that will use technology to connect Indians needing health products and services with doctors, clinics, hospitals and other healthcare providers.

Zigy HealthVault provides a highly secure and completely confidential way of storing all health-related information for patients and family members. Zigy facilitates its easy retrieval, upon the patient’s authorisation, to enable doctors and other healthcare providers to fully understand the case history. This structured flow of information will result in better diagnosis.

Phaneesh Murthy, co-founder and executive chairman of PMHLC, called Zigy the first step towards realising “our dream of a Swastha Bharat”.

The online marketplace will initially serve customers in five cities – Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Delhi. The product portfolio on the marketplace will include allopathic, homeopathic, ayurvedic and other wellness products.

The operations will be extended to 50 cities within 18 months, and PMHLC expects Zigy to serve rural India after a while.

Zigy is available on both the web and mobile platforms.

source: http://www.newindianexpress.com / The New Indian Express / Home> Cities> Bengaluru / by Express News Service / August 25th, 2015