I am writing this post 1 week after after launching our app – Medzap. I know I should have made this post before making the product still its never too late for a path correction. My objective to do this post is to seek your opinion whether you would like to use Medzap, if yes I seek your feedback on what more you would like to see in the product so as to use it everyday. What will you back to an app like Medzap.
In August this year my co-founder Amit was in the last month of his notice period, that is when we started to deliberate on new ideas. We didn’t had any idea to work but our vision was clear that we want to build something which can improve the lives of people globally.
Amit and I worked together at Infosys for 3 years, every fortnight Amit had to buy some medicines for his wife & daughter; 2 out 3 times he forgot to carry the prescription and thus had to go home to get the prescription and then go to buy the medicines. Thus we decided to build Medzap to solve this problem.
We set out to discover what can be other use cases where people would like their health records to be available on their mobile. We discussed with people from India as well as other countries. Some friends from countries like France, Spain who travel frequently said they need a portable way to carry their doctor prescriptions so that they can refer them while travelling and don’t get into the hassle of managing paper records. Thus we were convinced about the idea of Medzap where the problem we are solving is “mobility and longevity of paper based medical records.”
How it works
Medzap is a simple application where user takes a picture of their medical records, add doctor’s name & relevant keywords and saves the records. The record is then saved on the cloud and can be accessed even if the user changes their mobile phone. Another way to think about Medzap is “It is a private Instagram for medical records”.
Through Medzap we want to take forward the mission of “Digital India” by promoting “Digital Health“. Our vision is to take the product to rural areas where people usually face the problem of getting their prescriptions spoilt. However mobile internet connectivity and poor camera quality of phones is challenge which we see.
We have made Medzap with hope to improve lives. We plan to use the data that we collect on the app to help the user remain healthy and take precautions. This data will be used predict mass epidemics and caution the community to take precautionary measures. We also want to build a CRM for hospitals to help them interact with patients directly and improve their services.
In terms of competition there are similar apps but even Google drive and Dropbox are also our competitors. However Medzap has been built around a very focussed use case of storing files on cloud. At Medzap the user just maintains their medical records on the cloud. The app also interacts with the user to check about the user’s well being and rate their experience at the respective hospital.
We launched our Android app on 15th November and will soon launch iOS app. You can download our Android app here Get Medzap. Do share your feedback with us.
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