Practo acquires Qikwell
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| Acquisition makes Practo world’s largest healthcare appointment booking platform |
Practo, Asia’s leading healthcare platform, today announced the acquisition of Qikwell – a leader in appointment scheduling at hospitals. This acquisition makes Practo the world’s largest appointment booking platform with nearly 40 million appointments managed every year.
With this, Practo gets a fantastic product that delivers a great consumer experience in hospitals and clinics by providing smooth appointment booking, significantly reduced waiting time as well as contactless payment at the hospital. The key proprietary technologies and algorithms help synchronize patients, doctors and front office staff at the hospital to reduce the average wait time by over three times, resulting in a much better consumer experience as well as better optimization of the hospital operations. Practo will use this technology to improve the booking experience across the entire Practo platform.
Qikwell, founded in 2011, today has more than 100 employees and over the last four years has grown to become one of the leaders in hospital appointment scheduling with presence across 250 hospitals in 19 cities in India. It powers the patient experience in some of the premiere hospitals and has over 6000 doctors across India including the top pediatricians, gynecologists, neurologists and more. Qikwell will continue to be led by Krishna Prasad, Co-Founder & CEO, and Raghavendra Prasad, Co-Founder & CPO.
“This is our fourth acquisition in the last five months. We continue our mission to help simplify and digitize healthcare globally and make Practo everyone’s health app. I am very pleased to welcome Krishna, Ragavendra and the Qikwell team to Practo. Practo has been the pioneer in digital health and with this acquisition Practo now becomes the world’s leading appointment management platform. Over the coming months, we will continue our aggressive expansion and build the world’s leading healthcare technology platform,” said Shashank ND, Founder & CEO, Practo.
“Qikwell is thrilled to join Practo in our quest to enable digital healthcare worldwide. We share the same passion, vision and commitment to customers in offering great products. We chose Practo over some other options because together we can offer superior, comprehensive and integrated solutions for all participants in the healthcare ecosystem across patients, doctors and healthcare providers. I look forward to working with Shashank and the Practo team in realising our shared vision of transforming healthcare globally,” said Krishna Prasad, Co-Founder & CEO, Qikwell.
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