Doctor Anywhere

[Left-Right] Travis Seet, CFO, and Dr Chin Pak Lin, CEO, Asian Healthcare Specialists; Lim Wai Mun, CEO and founder, and Edwin Basuki, CFO, Doctor Anywhere Credit: Doctor Anywhere
By  Adam Ang 02:50 am December 22, 2022
Singaporean telehealth company Doctor Anywhere has fully acquired Catalist-listed Asian Healthcare Specialists, a multidisciplinary medical care group. The latter offers a wide range of specialist services, including anaesthesia, dermatology, family medicine, gastroenterology, ophthalmology, orthopaedics, otorhinolaryngology, rehabilitation and urology, across 12 clinics in Singapore. Its 14...
A person using their smartphone for video doctor consultation
By  Adam Ang 04:05 am May 17, 2022
Singaporean telehealth company Doctor Anywhere has started adopting a video API from US-based cloud communications provider Vonage to enhance its delivery of telehealth services. Vonage's communications platform has over a million registered developers who are using its APIs to provide business continuity, remote work, and remote delivery of various services. It is fully programmable and allows...
Instructions on integrating health data from Omron to the DA platform
By  Adam Ang 01:14 am December 6, 2021
Omron Healthcare, maker of health monitoring and therapy devices in Japan, has entered into a strategic partnership with Singapore-based telehealth startup Doctor Anywhere. WHAT IT'S ABOUT Under the partnership, Omron will enable the sharing of health records tracked on its connected devices with the DA platform. The integration involves the following Omron health monitoring devices: OMRON Smart...
A woman using the Doctor Anywhere app
By  Adam Ang 01:21 am November 11, 2021
Singapore-headquartered digital health platform Doctor Anywhere has acquired Doctor Raksa, the biggest telemedicine platform in Thailand, for an undisclosed amount. Launched in 2016, Doctor Raksa serves over a million users with offerings including online doctor and pharmacist consultations, electronic medical summaries, e-prescriptions and prescription refills.  WHY IT MATTERS DA is continuing...
A Doctor Anywhere mobile app user in a virtual consultation with a doctor
By  Adam Ang 03:20 am September 29, 2021
Singapore-headquartered Doctor Anywhere has joined forces with conglomerate Equicom Group to launch a telemedicine platform in the Philippines. WHY IT MATTERS The joint venture, according to a press statement, will offer on-demand virtual consultations with healthcare providers and chronic care services via the Doctor Anywhere mobile app. Through the app, users can also book mental health...
A patient in a video consultation with a doctor via the Doctor Anywhere app
By  Adam Ang 02:54 am August 31, 2021
Doctor Anywhere, a Singapore-headquartered digital health platform, has scored SG$88 million ($65.7 million) in a Series C funding round led by growth equity investor Asia Partners.  The round also saw the participation of Novo Holdings, Philips and OSK-SBI Venture Partners, as well as the company's existing investors such as EDBI, Square Peg, IHH Healthcare, Kamet Capital and Pavilion Capital. ...
By  Dean Koh 03:01 am October 20, 2020
Singapore-headquartered telehealth startup Doctor Anywhere announced it has launched an online mental health video consultation service. This is in addition to a suite of other tele-health services including GP consultation, lactation consultancy, and an in-app Marketplace with a range of wellness products and services, including booking appointments for home-based healthcare services. WHAT'S IT...
By  Dean Koh 12:02 am April 14, 2020
Singapore-headquartered telehealth startup Doctor Anywhere today announced that it will be launching the COVID-19 Medical Advisory Clinic. Major insurers, including Cigna Singapore and AIG, are partnering with Doctor Anywhere to offer the COVID-19 Medical Advisory Clinic as a free service to their policyholders. For individuals in Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, the COVID-19 Medical Advisory...
By  Dean Koh 12:02 am March 31, 2020
Singapore-headquartered telehealth startup Doctor Anywhere today announced it has secured a $27 million Series B financing round led by Square Peg – the largest venture capital fund in Australia, Singapore Government investment arm – EDBI, and IHH Healthcare, a leading international healthcare provider. Other participants in this round of funding are Pavilion Capital and existing shareholder...
By  Dean Koh 04:01 am December 19, 2019
“What we have tracked and seen in the last four years is a very vibrant ecosystem, which was in the past, very e-commerce health focused to nowadays, very sophisticated with AI drug discovery, clinical trials and digital therapeutics etc. In 2018, the total amount of venture capital that was invested in Asia Pacific amounted to about $6.8B. To put in context, in the US it is $8.2B and $2B for...