Video-Chat with your doctor on the go - Doctor Insta

Technology and digitization has revolutionized our  way of living. You have apps for almost all of your needs right from the way shop, interact and get information. Made in India, Doctor Insta is a telemedicine app offering instant medical help anywhere and anytime. You can consult a doctor at the comfort of your home with this app. For the uninitiated, Doctor Insta is a consultation platform to provide medical help instantly anytime, anywhere. The service allows patients across age groups, demography and social strata to receive round-the-clock professional medical consultation. The app helps busy working professionals immensely as they can have a consult over video through any of the widely used platforms including smartphones and Web over PCs without leaving home or office.

Doctor Insta was started by Amit Munjal as a “Video-Medicine” platform that provides online consultation in general medicine, pediatrics, psychology, and nutrition. The startup aims to bridge the consultation gap between doctors and patients, through a digital channel. Through the video, the users can be audio-visually connected to the specialists and get treatment advice specialties within 15-30 minutes.
While telemedicine is not new per se, Doctor Insta is focusing on face-to-face video chats as these are more personal and credible, says Munjal. Some of the major players in this segment are Lybrate, Seedoc and Click2Clinic. Prominent clients for Doctor Insta are FedEx, American Express, Future Generali, Bharti AXA among others.

Doctor Insta claims that it has a rigorous selection process for the doctors, which are selected to connect with the users on the platform. These doctors are acclaimed to be educated and trained at the finest medical colleges & hospitals in the country and are highly rated by peers and patients alike. The startup provides medical consultations across its web and mobile platforms, for customers looking for advice, including in general medicine, psychology, sexology, dermatology, and gynecology, amongst others.

Using its video medicine technology through Web, Android and iOS, Doctor Insta aims to solve problems of patients through a simple phone/video call. Doctor Insta app currently has over 400,000 downloads across both Android as well as iOS platforms and is serving a user base of more than 3.5 lakh patients. “We have strategic alliances with almost all online pharmacies and diagnostic labs. We have also empaneled some doctors,” he informs.
The start-up has raised fundings, led by RoundGlass Partners (Seattle, Washington) and BrahmaX Ventures (Los Angeles, CA). The funding will be used by the company to market its two new concepts—the Health ATM and Insta Wall. The Health ATMs are kiosks in malls andr corporate parks which function as mini laboratories. The customer can walk in and get a basic check-up for blood pressure, sugar levels, heart rate, etc.