Chronic Care in India
Chronic Care in India
Chronic Care in India
Chronic Care
Solving for the pervasive chronic disease scourge in India
In India too, lack of access to quality healthcare is a mounting problem. The
overall healthcare spend in India stands at $140B+ annually, growing at
15% CAGR.
$140B
Annual healthcare spending
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Solving for the pervasive chronic disease scourge in India
Within digital health, solving chronic care challenges using technology can be
a massive opportunity. High stress levels and improper diet are leading to a
marked increase in lifestyle and chronic diseases. WHO predicts ~70% of
deaths in India by 2030 will be due to chronic diseases. Chronic conditions
lead to ~40% of all IPD cases, and ~80% of e-pharmacy sales.
Indian Chronic care market is unique and substantially different from the US
market. Following are the prominent challenges in India:
Willingness to pay
While India has 70M diabetic patients (2.3x of US), they have a very low
willingness-to-pay. To put this in perspective, diabetes devices market in India is
$800M growing at 1.5% CAGR, versus US which is at $9B and growing at 9% CAGR.
Thus, despite being essential products, their adoption is dismally low. This is also
evident in a high ~60% patient drop-off from chronic disease incidence to
treatment. Primary reason is India's out-of-pocket healthcare expense is 62% of
total versus 11% in the US, making it expensive for middle-class India.
Market organization
US is a highly organized market when it comes to healthcare professionals. Through
formal organisations like ADA (American Diabetes Association), or businesses, one
can reach out to 10K+ diabetologists in a capital-efficient manner. In India, there is
a lack of similar platforms, making the process inefficient. Simultaneously, startups
who can crack these partnerships at scale, create as strong moat. Share of
organised players across pharma retail, healthcare delivery, and diagnostics is
<10% in India, v/s ~60% in US and China.
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Wary of the opportunities and challenges, entrepreneurs are taking different
approaches to solving chronic care. To develop and refine our understanding of
the space, we asked the question below on LinkedIn and Twitter:
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From the responses we received, and the ensuing conversations we had, we
realised the below -
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Case study
of a
comprehensive
and successful
healthcare platform
The Ping-An model
Established in 2015 and having gone public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
in 2018, Ping An Good Doctor’s services span health mall, consumer
healthcare, online medical services, and health management and interaction.
With revenues of ~$600M and 60M DAU, Ping An currently has a market cap of
~$15B, achieved in under 5 years.
Health
Management
Health
Management Health Mall
Outpatient Chronic
Service Care
Health Chronic Outpatient
checkup Fitness
patients visits
market
Express Appointment Chronic
& inpatient illness Weight loss
Drug Delivery
arrangement management
Wellness
Programs
Beauty Care
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E-commerce
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me
Beauty
AI
dic
Care
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team
~1,100 health check-up centers in over 300 cities
Fitness Pharmacies
~70 aesthetic centers in about 30 cities
Note: Class III hospitals are multi-regional hospitals with large capacity that provide multiple regions with high-quality professional medical services, undertake higher
education and scientific research initiatives, which are designated as Class III hospitals by the NHFPC hospital classification system. Date as of December 31, 2017. Source: Ping An Annual Report
Monetization model:
Customer acquisition: Complimentary services such as Health management
plan, health community, and AI triage are low-CAC hooks. PingAn also offers
deep promotions on products in online mall to attract consumer traffic and
engagement.
Ping An's success has shown that large scale chronic care platforms can be
built by integrating all stakeholders on a single platform to ensure smooth
delivery of healthcare while ensuring that payments and data collection
happen effectively.
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INFRASTRUCTURE
EFFORTS
The best of technology innovations and
interventions can fail without the support of a
forward-looking public infrastructure. The
Indian Government has realized the importance
of combating chronic diseases and has taken
several initiatives to accelerate the digital
healthcare landscape in India. The two most
notable initiatives are the National Digital Health
Mission and Ayushman Bharat. These initiatives
are aimed at the two-pronged problems of
Approach, i.e. lack of structured data to
undertake long-term initiatives, and
Affordability i.e. ability to pay for chronic care
treatment.
National Digital Health Mission
The stated vision of the National Digital Health Mission is -
Further, they will have the option to access health services remotely through
tele-consultation and e-pharmacy. NDHM will empower individuals with
accurate information to enable informed decision making and increase
accountability of healthcare provider.
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Ayushman Bharat
Ayushman Bharat - The National Health Protection Mission (AB-NHPM) is the
largest health plan of the Indian government.
Modi government
Rs. 5 lakh Around approves world’s
Insurance cover 11 crore largest and most
per family per year, poor and vulnerable
comprehensive healthcare
irrespective of families to benefit
family size scheme
Beneficiaries
AYUSHMAN
Benefits of the
scheme are portable
can avail benefits
in all empanelled
BHARAT
across the country* public and private National Health
hospitals Protection Mission
GOAL 1
GOAL 2
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Swasth
Building on the framework given by the NDHM and the vision of Ayushman
Bharat, the startup ecosystem came together to co-create Swasth. Swasth is a
non-profit initiative with the vision of creating the digital backbone for health
care delivery in India. It was created with the following features in mind:
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Swasth is building a comprehensive home care solution which has a spectrum
of services across the patient journey:
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investments
in digital health
Over the last 6 years, India has seen c. $3B invested in the Digital Health
opportunity, across 600+ promising startups. Leading up to 2020, the funding
raised by Indian startups, grew 4.7x over a period of 3 years. This highlights
the strong and growing promise of the sector to entrepreneurs and investors
alike. Despite early disruption in deal-making with the ongoing pandemic,
HealthTech startups raised $269M by Jul-20.
$975M
$629M
$402M $461M
$361M
$209M
$269M
2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020*
122 181 172 153 118 40
$FUNDING #ROUNDS
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India's chronic
care platform
For digital platforms, chronic conditions are far more suitable than acute
conditions due to the higher customer life value. We believe that the biggest
companies coming in the space will create digital-first ecosystem that spans
across an individual’s journey in a single chronic disease. The platforms can
have a sticky product hook to acquire users and then leverage partnerships to
deliver other value-added services.
DOCTORS/CLINICS
WELLNESS
HOSPITALS
INSURANCE
DIAGNOSTIC LABS
DRUG DISCOVERY
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• Building global products from onset: India is a low ARPU market. Thus,
startups need to think about scaling globally from Day one. There is an
increasing incidence of lifestyle diseases in MENA, SEA regions that can be
capitalized on given similar characteristics with the Indian market.
• Insurance linkage: Only ~40% Indians are currently insured, and <10%
have private insurance. At sufficient scale and data access, startups can
explore insurance linkage. While most healthtech players are sub-scale for
insurer's interests today, we expect that to change over the coming years.
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Healthcare
startups
referred on
social media
Within the comments on social media, we saw entrepreneurs share about their
start-ups, and learnings from the journey. On the other hand, there were also
happy customers of health-tech startups that shared some interesting
companies. We captured the details of these startups and benchmarked them
on three parameters.
Problem:
The key problem the startups are solving within healthcare. Some companies
are tackling several healthcare-related issues (Horizontal - Healthcare), some
are focused on the segment of chronic diseases (Horizontal - Chronic), while
the remaining are laser-focused on a particular chronic care or healthcare
problem (such as Diabetes).
Business Model:
Business models are either facing hospitals/clinics & corporates (B2B) or end
consumers. Within consumer-facing solutions, some startups are focused on
curative healthcare (Care delivery) including diagnostics and consultations,
some are focused on preventative healthcare (Lifestyle), while a few models are
doubling down on trackers (Hardware). A small set of solutions span across
these three categories (Full stack).
Offerings:
These are the set of offerings to the end consumer.
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REFERRED STARTUP PROBLEM BUSINESS MODEL OFFERINGS
https://www.portea.com/
https://careme.health/
https://icardin.com/
https://www.jiyyo.com/
Jiyyo Horizontal - Healthcare Phygital Care Delivery e-Clinics with Teleconsults for Rural areas
https://www.jiyyo.com/
https://www.jiyyo.com/
https://www.jiyyo.com/
https://www.jiyyo.com/
https://www.jiyyo.com/
https://www.jiyyo.com/
https://www.jiyyo.com/
https://www.fitterfly.com/
https://cura.tech/
B2B SaaS
https://cura.tech/
https://cura.tech/
https://cura.tech/
https://cura.tech/
https://cura.tech/
https://cura.tech/
Tracking/Analytics + Consultation +
Horizontal - Chronic
https://www.phablecare.com/
Phable Full-stack
https://www.phablecare.com/
https://www.phablecare.com/
https://www.phablecare.com/
Lifestyle Coaching
https://www.phablecare.com/
https://www.phablecare.com/
https://www.phablecare.com/
https://www.phablecare.com/
https://www.wellthytherapeutics.com/
Consultations
https://www.wellthytherapeutics.com/
https://www.wellthytherapeutics.com/
https://www.wellthytherapeutics.com/
https://www.wellthytherapeutics.com/
https://www.wellthytherapeutics.com/
https://livealtlife.com/
Diagnostics
https://livealtlife.com/
https://livealtlife.com/
https://livealtlife.com/
https://livealtlife.com/
https://www.rhealth.in/
Food/Insurance Advisory
https://www.rhealth.in/
https://www.rhealth.in/
https://www.rhealth.in/
https://www.rhealth.in/
Horizontal - Chronic
http://smit.fit/
https://nutripal.in/
https://www.heka-solutions.com/
Content + Tracking/Analytics +
Heka Solutions Full-stack
https://www.heka-solutions.com/
Diabetes
https://www.heka-solutions.com/
https://www.heka-solutions.com/
https://www.heka-solutions.com/
https://www.heka-solutions.com/
Consultations
https://www.heka-solutions.com/
https://www.heka-solutions.com/
https://www.heka-solutions.com/
https://www.heka-solutions.com/
https://www.heka-solutions.com/
https://www.heka-solutions.com/
https://www.aegleclinic.com/
https://cureos.in/
Diabetes
https://cureos.in/
https://twinhealth.com/
https://twinhealth.com/
Consultations
https://twinhealth.com/
https://twinhealth.com/
https://twinhealth.com/
https://twinhealth.com/
https://www.corahealthcare.in/
Diabetes
https://www.breathewellbeing.in/
https://pcosclubindia.com/
contd.
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REFERRED STARTUP PROBLEM BUSINESS MODEL OFFERINGS
https://maasika.in/women-health/disorders/pcod_pcos/
Supplements
https://lami.fit/
https://lami.fit/
https://lami.fit/
https://lami.fit/
https://www.23bmi.com/
https://www.23bmi.com/
http://www.snoozfit.com/
http://www.snoozfit.com/
https://www.your-physio.in/
https://endoqure.com/
https://endoqure.com/
https://www.healthkon.com/
Critical Care
https://www.healthkon.com/
https://www.healthkon.com/
https://www.healthkon.com/
https://www.healthkon.com/
https://www.healthkon.com/
https://www.healthkon.com/
https://purpleribbon.health/
Disclaimer - The data in the table is interpreted based on publicly available sources.
If you feel there is a mis-categorization, please write a note at health@kalaari.com, and we will make the necessary correction.
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KALAARI
VIEWPOINT
Chronic care diseases is a large, unaddressed, and growing problem. It is often
attributed to a confluence of Increasing urbanisation, aging population, air
pollution and changing lifestyles. Solving for India's pervasive chronic care
scourge is an imperative. The positive impact is not just limited to better
healthcare for millions of Indians, but goes beyond to strengthening India's
economy. A Bain report estimates, chronic care diseases to cost India $6.2T
between 2015-2030.
The patients need constant vitals monitoring, and a ready access to the
healthcare ecosystem (physicians, pharma) regardless of their offline
access.
There are several approaches that have emerged to solve for either preventive
or curative chronic care challenges. Taking diabetes as a base example, below
is a summary of the approaches, opportunities and challenges faced by
tech-first players:
Opportunity Challenges
Collaborating with the Figuring means of
ecosystem for monetisation; ensuring platform
comprehensive care retention and engagement
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At the intersection of progressive Government
initiatives, pandemic-induced digitisation, and a
massive underlying market, Digital Health in India
is at a tipping point. We are committed to
collaborate on the future of chronic care and
creating a meaningful impact.
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