Second Opinion through MediAngels Saves 9 –Months Old Arnav Patel from Unwarranted Surgery

Arnav Patel, a nine-month old boy from Ahmedabad was detected with swelling in his kidneys three months ago. Local doctors advised immediate surgery for Arnav. Arnav’s father, a Builder by profession, decided to take a second opinion and uploaded his reports for an e-consultation with a super specialist on MediAngels. Pediatric Urologist and founder director of MediAngels, Dr. Arbinder Singal, reviewed Arnav’s reports and advised the family against surgery. Dr. Singal started the course of medication on the child in a month. Since the condition needed constant monitoring, Arnav’s family ordered his tests through MediAngels which has a network of 21000 accredited laboratories across India. Samples were collected in Ahmedabad, and reports made available online to his parents and to Dr. Singal for simultaneous review. This eliminated the need for the patient to travel to Mumbai for meeting Dr Singal. Today, Arnav has completely recovered and his family cannot thank Dr. Singal enough for their son’s well-being.
This is just one of the hundreds of life changing stories of patients from all across the world who have visited MediAngels for a second opinion from their global panel of super specialists.
“Timely healthcare intervention thanks to the technology bridging the distance divide, can make a life and death difference. MediAngels is a serious medical consultation platform especially for rare, super specialized disease conditions. We aim to empower patients by allowing them to seek second opinion from the best doctors in the world, maintain their medical records electronically, save time and cost in repeat visits for diagnostic tests consultation to brick and mortar hospitals and allow early start for treatment. Considering that 90% of the specialist doctors in 10% of India’s geography, it makes sense to use technology to make healthcare access better,” said Dr. Arbinder Singal.
MediAngels offers the facility of seeking advice from the world’s top 350 super specialists from 22 countries and 85 super specialised medical disciplines for a fee ranging from USD 5 to USD 100. Started by two young super-specialists themselves, Dr. Debraj Shome and Dr. Arbinder Singal, MediAngels was as an outcome of the personal experiences of both the founder doctors in complicated health situations. While Dr Shome and Dr Singal had the contacts and the know-how to take a second opinion and save their family members, a common man does not have this facility and that triggered the concept of MediAngels. It is one of the first e-health ventures to receive funding from Mr. Deepak Parekh’s HDFC.
According to Dr. Debraj Shome, Co-founder & Director, MediAngels, “On an average, 20% of all OPD visits in hospitals are for super specialty consultations. On an average, people travel 50kms to go and see a specialist doctor and the appointments may not be available for several days. The pressure on the existing medical resources and infrastructure in the country has risen significantly over the last few years and it will only continue to rise. Challenges of extensive costs of setting up hospitals, resourcing them with super specialists, physicians, paramedics, patient information management, streamlined diagnostic services, are not new. MediAngels was set up to address some of these issues and make medical opinion available across the primary and specialised healthcare spectrum, using the internet.”
Launched on January 26, 2011, MediAngels has over 6000 registered patients and has completed 1600 consults since then. MediAngels aspires to be the “Google” of Healthcare.
Future Course At MediAngels
The modules currently under development are:
1. Electronic Medical Records: MediAngels is launching a revolutionary facility called eRecords which will allow patients to upload and maintain their electronic medical records on internet. There will be no need to carry bulky files or the risk of losing your medical data when you need it the most. Wherever you are you would be able to login to MediAngels.com and see/ share your medical records. eRecords will allow you to keep track of your health by algorithmic prediction of diseases, health checkups, diet and follow-ups.
2. eRadiology platform- Will allow you to share your MRI, CT, Ultrasound pictures and reports with any doctor worldwide. Just get a CD with the radiology images and you can now seek a 2nd opinion from any doctor you choose world over. This is a first of its kind service in India.
3. Panel Consult: for health conditions which require concurrence of two or more specialists, via Panel Consult you can consult them at once click. For instance, Diabetes as a disease affects Kidneys, Nervous system and Eyes. Through Panel Consult at MediAngels you will be able to consult all these specialists at one click and we will send you a summary making sure that the plan is comprehensive.
4. Video Consult and Virtual OPD platform- allowing the patients to have real time video consultations with the chosen specialists across the globe. Book a mutually convenient time of a specialist wherever in the world he may be. Have a web cm on. Seek an eConsult, sitting in your bedroom, with the doctor in front of you.

MediAngels.com is the world's first complete, credible and specialized Global eHospital, providing specialized medical consultations to customers globally ranging from online consultations, second opinions and lab tests, world over. It ensures end-to-end health-care services to its customers through dedicated tools on www.mediangels.com. MediAngels has empanelled a team of extremely qualified medical specialists, carefully handpicked from across the globe, by a neutral health assurance committee of seven top notch global physician leaders, to ensure quality health-care delivery. The consumer can select a doctor, look through his detailed accreditations, upload all his reports, scans etc. and seek a consult. The consumer can even get all his blood tests performed, sitting at home, through a MediAngels accredited laboratory, wherever in India he may be (over 21, 000 locations).

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