oDoc introduces an employee healthcare solution for businesses
View(s):oDoc’s corporate subscriptions present organisations with a new option to offer employees unlimited fully paid doctor consultations from anywhere, including at corporate and factory sick rooms, the company said in a media release.
oDoc is a smartphone app that connects patients with doctors for instant video consultations. It gives patients access to an SLMC registered doctor eliminating the need to brave traffic and spend hours in a hospital waiting room. In addition, patients benefit from expert advice, receive instant E-prescriptions (if medically required), and even have medicine delivered straight to their door, for no extra charge. It all takes place within a few clicks of a smartphone through a trilingual app designed and developed entirely in Sri Lanka.
The release said that the American Medical Association has found that nearly 75 per cent of regular doctor visits can be handled effectively through video or audio consultations. This form of healthcare delivery has gained global acceptance and is in wide use in countries including the US, the UK, India, Japan and Singapore.
The oDoc platform has been up and running for close to a year now. It counts over 180 GPs and specialists including many senior consultants. All doctors on oDoc are equipped with a dedicated application to manage oDoc consultations and issue prescriptions. oDoc’s newest initiative, corporate subscriptions, follows the use of the platform by over 11,000 Sri Lankans.
The corporate subscription package is designed to increase productivity. It is a company health benefit that allows employers to provide their employees, and optionally the employee’s immediate family, with unlimited access to the doctors on the oDoc platform. The company has developed a business model that allows these subscriptions to be priced as low as Rs. 25 per employee per month, making the service affordable for both large and small businesses.
“We want this to complement traditional forms of employee health coverage, which usually covers just a limited number of OPD visits. In essence, this is unlimited OPD cover for your employees,” says the company’s CEO and Co-Founder Heshan Fernando. “With oDoc, your employees will not only have instant access to GPs, but also to specialists, including paediatricians, gynaecologists, cardiologists, and dermatologists.”