Egyptian health tech startup Vezeeta is turning the table in the health care industry by redefining the relationship between doctors and their patients while disrupting the industry as a whole. Founded in 2012, the now app-based venture initially started as an electronic medical record for doctors.”We launched the first product and it was picking up with the doctors, but we realized that nobody [patients] is using it,” Amir Barsoum, founder of Vezeeta says. That is when Vezeeta decided to withdraw and relaunch in 2015. This time around, the app introduced a booking platform for patients allowing them to rate and review their doctors.”That was a moment when it boomed.” The idea was simple. For very single industry there is the glue that connects different players together. Vezeeta believed that if they built a platform to plug in different health care providers “while keeping them well integrated together. This way we are introducing massive quality enhancement to the [health care] system,” Barsoum highlights. “Initially we were invested in serving health care providers because we serve providers, providers serve patients,” the founder says, “and then we moved on to believe that we…
How Vezeeta Is Revolutionising the Doctor-Patient Relationship in Egypt
December 12, 2018
