Author: Sairaj Iyer
Sairaj Iyer is a Mumbai based financial and business journalist. His articles have appeared in Banking Frontiers, The Dollar Business, Sify.com, and recently The Economic Times and The Times of India. Besides Technology, he writes on strategies, trends in the BFSI industry, policy-making, and personal finance.
Read on for insights and statistics from Practo and Dr Alexander Kuruvilla If shuttered shops, sinking graphs and televised AGMs narrate the tale of sagging business in Covid-times, here’s a tale of a business that has grown multi-fold. With doctors and nurses achieving the cult-status of “Covid-warrior”, healthcare apps such as Practo too have jumped the bandwagon reaping the benefits of changing consumer behaviour. The business at Practo has evolved to becoming India’s largest tele-medicine app with subscribers soaring to eighteen crores. The lockdown and shutdowns have only shifted the spotlight to digital. Digital not only helps patients and businesses…