At the BlitzMegaplex Grand Indonesia in Jakarta, SpotMed Group held a press conference for the launch of a new service. It’s called SpotDokter, and it claims to be the first location-based mobile application focusing on health launched in Indonesia, the goal being to help the public achieve a healthier lifestyle.
SpotDokter uses the phone’s GPS capability to provide health information based on location. It helps you search the nearest health facilities based on distance and time, and gives a complete directory and profile of each facility.
Such a service is crucial when emergencies occur, and it also has automatic emergency calling through the app. SpotDokter is available for Blackberry, iOS, and Android.
Established back in 2011, SpotMed Group is a startup co-founded by Mendy Candella, Pascal Christian, and Jaka Pradipta. They aim to become a leading company that provides integrated services to improve the standards of public health. Project Eden saw their potential and decided to take them under its wing. Mendy Candella, the CEO of Spotmed Group, remarked on the launch:
We are delighted to finally launch SpotDokter today to assist the public in achieving a healthier lifestyle . . . The application will give the public a powerful tool to seek information such as where is the nearest hospital and who are the doctors on duty in their hands. We feel their frustration in finding such information online and offline, and that is why we came up with this solution.”
The health industry is waiting to be disrupted, and even in Silicon Valley one of the biggest problems is tackling the health care system. We have seen other ventures into this space in Indonesia, with MeetDoctor launching last year. But it is always good to see some competition. For more on SpotDokter, see their video below.