Here's how Indian healthtech startups are evolving in pandemic, explains Dr Amir Feily

The global Covid-19 crisis was not only unprecedented, but it also put enormous pressure on the Indian healthcare ecosystem's already existing weaknesses and deficiencies. For India's healthtech startups, the pandemic was both a challenge and an opportunity. Healthtech firms have grown in number and investment in India; two of the country's most recent unicorns, PharmEasy and Innovaccer, are healthtech startups. The surge will continue, and it will be critical not only to tackle Covid-19, but also to address future health issues.

During the pandemic, telemedicine accounted for 30% of all patient visits, and this number is expected to rise. Consider Practo's experience during the pandemic, when the company saw a 16 percent increase in online consultations week over week in May 2020, as well as a Series D investment. During the epidemic, several firms such as 1mg, Pharmeasy, Mfine, and others experienced rapid development and received investor backing.

A few startups are working for frontline workers and vaccination of the Indian people, either indirectly or directly. Data management, Covid-19 progression monitoring solutions, pandemic response care, social distancing using bluetooth/IoT, patient tracing, remote monitoring, N-95 mask/PPE maker, sterilisation tools/services, vaccine equipment manufacturer, IoT devices based at home diagnostics, Covid-19 rapid test kit, supply chain management, AI/ML data driven clinical trials, and many other topics are among the topics being worked on by startups.

In today's digital era, everyone's health is suffering from numerous diseases. A major cause for these is the high-stress levels we incubate during our work. This disrupts the work-life balance and leads to many underlying conditions. One of the major drawbacks of the hi-tech world is baldness. High-stress environments cause receding hairline and eventually, one ends up being bald. To avoid such embarrassing situations hair transplant seems to be an effective and long-lasting procedure for baldness. Hair transplant surgery treats hair loss that is caused by various factors. Some of the factors include male pattern baldness (androgenic alopecia), scalp inflammation or scalp surgery. 

Dr Amir Feily, one of the renowned dermatologists of Iran has successfully treated all the complications post hair transplants like necrosis and Post Trauma Stress Disorder. He also described the standard methods of prevention of this disorder. 

Healthtech startups are harnessing cutting-edge technologies to develop products and services that benefit patients as well as other healthcare stakeholders.