RecoMed in new partnership with Kaelo to drive virtual healthcare
TLDR
- RecoMed partners with Kaelo Health to offer virtual healthcare services, enhancing accessibility and convenience in South Africa.
- The collaboration seeks to reduce self-care costs by streamlining the patient consultation process through tailored screening questions.
- This innovative partnership between RecoMed and Kaelo Health aims to improve healthcare efficiency and affordability for patients in South Africa.
South African e-health startup RecoMed has partnered with Kaelo Health, a health insurance provider, to provide access to virtual healthcare from a central platform.
RecoMed is a tech-driven online healthcare marketplace and booking platform that connects practitioners, patients, and other stakeholders in the healthcare ecosystem. Kaelo Health, meanwhile, provides healthcare and financial solutions in South Africa.
The partnership aims to lower the cost of self-care for patients, allowing healthcare practitioners to curate a series of screening questions for the patient to work through ahead of a consultation.
Key Takeaways
Compared to the rest of the world, Africa still has a long way to go in terms of healthtech startups and healthcare provision more broadly. There are lingering issues such as the low doctor-to-population ratio yet to be addressed. But recently, especially since the disruption caused by Covid-19, several healthtech startups have sprung up providing innovative solutions to the problems bedeviling the continent’s healthcare system, and are increasingly getting VC backing to capture a widely underserved market.
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