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Health in your
hands
Ranjani
Rajendra:A new app, Peach, makes it possible for people to store
medical records on their phone for easy access
A doctor’s appointment is due and
you’re hunting all over the house for that previous medical report or
prescription. Or you have to have your prescription filled out, but cannot find
it. Happens to the best of us, right? That is where Peach steps in — a new
health app launched by Chennai-based entrepreneur Harsh Rajan and his team at pH
networks.
A cloud service, the app lets users
upload important medical records — prescriptions, test results, medical
schedules and even scans — onto the app for future reference. The idea struck
Harsh, when his mother met with an accident last year and the family found it
difficult to handle his father’s medication schedule. “My mother would usually
handle my father’s medication; but with her condition, we found it difficult to
get a grip on what he was supposed to take and when. That proved to be a trigger
for Peach,” says Harsh, founder of pH networks, adding, “People invariably
segregate their prescriptions and medical records in plastic bags. It is then up
to the doctor to go through all of this, go back in time and figure out the
patient’s medical history. Wouldn’t it be simpler to have all this data on a
single platform? Peach can be easily accessed by the patient, doctors and
caregivers. All one needs is a basic smartphone.”
The app lets users take photographs
of their medical records and prescriptions, which are then compressed and
converted into schedules that send out reminders about medication timings and
lets users, share their medical information with their doctor. This, Harsh says,
works well for patients, when their records are retained by the hospital and
want a second opinion. “We also have an in-app messaging service that allows
doctors and patients to interact in-between consultations,” explains Harsh.
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