Netmeds acquires digital prescription provider Kivihealth

Netmeds has acquired health tech start-up KiViHealth and will invest close to $10 million to integrate and grow the latter’s business. KiViHealth is a clinic management platform providing cloud-based, AI-powered tools for effective doctor-patient interaction. The acquisition is through a cash and stock deal.

KiviHealth’s USP is its unique “digital prescription pad” tool which allows doctors to generate digital prescriptions. Creating a prescription digitally not only rules out any possible misinterpretation of the medication or dosage, but it also creates an electronic historical health record storage.

AI-based prescription management technology helps doctors diagnose similar conditions in patients and helps healthcare stakeholders analyse trends that can be used as a predictive analysis tool.