KonsultaMD Emerges As Health Super-App

Three Philippine companies have joined forces to offer the country's largest health-tech venture, with the goal of making healthcare more accessible to Filipinos through a one-stop health super-app.

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Globe Capital Venture Holdings, Inc. (917Ventures), the Globe Group's corporate venture builder, along with Ayala Healthcare Holdings Inc. (AC Health), the Ayala Group's healthcare portfolio arm, have agreed to reorganize Global Telehealth, Inc. (KonsultaMD), HealthNow, Inc. (HealthNow) and APPPPS Partners, Inc. (AIDE) to combine their respective applications in one super-app.

The transaction combines three market-leading telehealth applications - KonsultaMD, which serves teleconsultations, HealthNow, which serves medicine deliveries, and AIDE, which serves laboratory tests and home care - into one full-service health super-app, the new KonsultaMD.

The companies have a combined user base of over 2 million people.

“By combining the strengths of each of the three entities, I am excited to see the new KonsultaMD support AC Health's vision of an integrated healthcare ecosystem,'' said Paolo Borromeo, President and CEO of AC Health.

AC Health and 917Ventures are working together to redefine the healthcare experience.

By merging AC Health's multi-channel care delivery network with 917Ventures' drive for constant innovation through digital technology, Filipinos may expect to obtain healthcare services in a much more powerful, end-to-end, and seamless manner that spans both digital and physical touchpoints.

"This combined digital team, supplemented by the network of services from AC Health, allows us all to be in a better position to provide much-needed access to quality healthcare services and medicines across the country, accelerating our goal of touching the lives of 1 in 5 Filipinos by 2030,” Borromeo added.

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