Healthtech Startups Contribute to Fighting Covid-19

The Indonesian government is actively trying to reduce the spread of the Covid-19 outbreak. Various ways are done, including by embracing health startups (healthtech) to jointly provide official information and conduct socialization.

One form of synergy that is carried out is by presenting services chatbot. Two names that have been observed to provide it are HealthReplies.com and Halodoc. Both of them present official pages for this special feature. Latest Prixa, a service from Kata.ai also presents an automated channel to help the community perform early detection.

Judging from the questions asked, chatbot This is specifically presented to help the general public independently diagnose Covid-19 symptoms such as fever, travel history, history of contact with positive patients, and the like. At the end of the conversation. chatbot will also convey information to always be vigilant and comply with existing health protocols.

Co-founder & Director Alodokter Suci Arumsari explained that his party had taken several steps to help the Indonesian people in handling the Corona virus. His party also supports the Ministry of Health's program in developing digital interaction system technology to help the Indonesian people get a clear picture of the basic symptoms of the Corona virus.

"Since it was activated last week, Alodokter's digital service has been accessed by more than 900 thousand Indonesians. Alodokter also continues to conduct comprehensive training for the entire team of doctors at Alodokter, to jointly face this crisis," Suci explained.

Chatbot technology to help spread information

chatbot is actually a technology that is able to read and answer user questions automatically, based on the data that has been embedded into the machine. For now, in the midst of efforts to educate as many people as possible, disseminate official information, and minimize panic in choosing technology chatbot very precise. In addition to being easily accessible to the public, chatbot also relatively faster in providing information.

Despite using launch service chatbot well Halodoc and Alodokter also continue to open their doctor's consultation service, which can also be used to consult about the Covid-19 outbreak and its symptoms. It is just chatbot developed for self-checking and repetitive basic information.

Apart from these two health startups, the government also has chatbot through the official account named "COVID19.GO.ID" on the WhatsApp platform. Slightly different, chatbot official from the government provides more information. Not only about symptoms and other basic information but also up-to-date information. His presence completes chatbot about the existing Covid-19.