Digitizing Health Services Through Healthtech Startups in Indonesia

One of the positive impacts that we can feel related to the rapid growth of the startup ecosystem as it is today is the increasingly varied emergence of startups in Indonesia, one of the startup fields that is quite interesting to review is healthtech. In brief healthtech is an innovation carried out in the health sector by utilizing technological advances.

The era of the pandemic that we are currently experiencing is forcing us to limit all types of physical activity, this is done in order to suppress the spread of the Corona virus which reportedly has not been able to overcome recently.

Appearance healthtech Of course it can be seen as a solution in the midst of this pandemic, besides being useful for suppressing the spread of the Covid virus in Indonesia because there is no need for physical contact between patients and health service providers. Healthtech will also provide easy access for you related to health problem consultations.

What is that Healthtech?

Healthtech is the latest breakthrough developed by Health Technology Assessment (HTA) to optimize performance in the health sector in the midst of this pandemic, meaning that it is an innovation carried out in the health sector by utilizing existing technological developments.

Especially at a time like now, products that are related to health suddenly become a big seller in the market, of course this can be seen as a quite promising business opportunity.

One of the problems faced by startup companies in the field of healthtech Currently, the lack of enthusiasm for the health ecosystem and the lack of clear regulations governing the funding of digital health services in Indonesia. The next factor is the lack of information about healthtech, both in education and adoption from health practitioners about the use of technology in the health sector. So that people tend to use conventional methods more than digital ways to deal with the health problems they experience.

Kini Healthtech emerged as a solution that will make it easy for you to consult about health problems anywhere and anytime without the need to think about the possibility of contracting a disease.

Development Healthtech in Indonesia

MenurutDailySocial.id, Asia is a wet field in the field of healthtech, there was a significant growth between 2017-2018, namely the investment value healthtech reached $3.3 billion.

Currently, China and India are still the dominant countries in the field of healthtech in Asia, followed by Singapore (11%), Japan (8%), Singapore (8%), Indonesia and the Philippines (7%). Indonesia is indeed one of the countries in Asia that has deal investment, but received less attention when compared to other countries.

Of the many services that the field is trying to provide, healthtech There are several services that are quite ogled by investors in this field, here are 6 services: healthtech which are quite popular, namely:

1.       Phealth research (14 investments)
2.       Oonline marketplace (12 investments)
3.       Genomics and related applications (12 investments)
4.       Ddata and medical analysis (10 investments)
5.       IoT (5 investments)
6.       Health diagnosis (3 investments)

As explained above, the problems faced by business developers, especially in the healthtech that the unclear regulations governing the law regarding the funding process, economic stability and lack of information dissemination are factors that cause the sector healthtech have not been able to develop optimally in the country.

The same thing also happened to Indonesia, but the survey explained that Indonesia is actually one of the countries with potential that can support development healthtech in the Asian region.

The population and the increasing number of internet users in Indonesia have become a promising asset for business developers, especially those engaged in providing services healthtech.

In fact, in 2015 an institution called the Indonesia Healthtech Association (IHA) was established, this institution is the home for startup companies in the health technology field.

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Disclosure: This article was written by Dhea Alif