Impact stories

Building a new Digital Health Services Business for a leading healthcare company

A large healthcare company was planning to launch an e-commerce for drugs home delivery, with the aspiration to build it as a pharmacy-as-a-platform solution offering

The challenge

Aggressive market forces (e.g., tech natives like Amazon and start-ups like Capsule were disrupting this space)

The journey

Build new ways of working
Agile operating model with weekly sprints, close cross-functional collaborations

Update Business operations
Pharmacy operations, call centers, payments, digital marketing

Design future-state API strategy
Technology roadmap for future solution, cadence every other month

Impact

3

products launched within a 6 month-effort

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New

product-centric Agile operating model

~10M

total prescriptions estimated in the first year of operations

Established

agile marketing capabilities to drive website traffic and orders

Products launched

Web

B2C cash pharmacy experience

Built and launched the first MVP of the B2C cash pharmacy website focusing on the end-to-end order flow, with additional releases planned for future functionalities

Mobile

Mobile app (Android)

Mobile app (iOS)

Built and launched the mobile product (iOS and Android) that have functional parity with client’s web and additional features

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