TY - JOUR AU - Dorairaj, Lavanian PY - 2021/04/23 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - The AmbuPod Project: Learnings of a Government-Certified, Telemedicine-Enabled, Rural Healthcare Startup in India JF - Telehealth and Medicine Today JA - THMT VL - 6 IS - 2 SE - Special Issue - Articles DO - 10.30953/tmt.v6.259 UR - https://telehealthandmedicinetoday.com/index.php/journal/article/view/259 SP - AB - <p>The Government of India (GoI), during the past 8 years, has been encouraging and supporting start-ups with various schemes, for the purpose of wealth creation, improving economic growth, and employment. There is also a growing support system in India, in the private sector, for funding, mentorship, and techno-commercial support for telemedicine-enabled start-up projects. In practice however, there are many critical decisions that need to be taken and pitfalls to be avoided, for start-ups to achieve success, as envisaged by the GoI.</p><p><strong><em>Objective</em></strong>: This paper shares the challenges encountered so as to help upcoming healthcare start-up’s navigate this route skilfully, avoiding pitfalls.</p><p><strong><em>Results</em></strong>: The results of 4 years of work (Jan 2016 to Mar 2020) and the present status are discussed and the learnings drawn from the AmbuPod Project (on-going) summarized.</p><p><strong><em>Conclusion</em></strong>: Telemedicine supported Rural Healthcare Start-Up projects have a good business potential in India, provided challenges are planned for, addressed, and resolved.</p> ER -