Healthcare firm Practo acquires tech start-up Genii

Healthcare firm Practo has acquired Mumbai based Genii, a technology services start-up focused on product design and development.
With this acquisition, Genii’s founders Varun Vohra and Aditya Anand and their 11 member team will join Bengaluru based Practo.
Currently, Practo provides Practo Search, an app and web service for scheduling appointments with doctors and also Practo Ray, a practice management solution for doctors to manage their patients and digital healthcare records.
Henceforth the team of Genii will help Practo tap the enterprise space with products focused around hospitals and diagnostic centers.
Presently, Practo has over 8,000 hospitals on its platform and aiming to reach to 20,000 hospitals by the end 2015. It should be noted that Genii is their second acquisition. In April 2015, it had acquired Delhi-based fitness tech start-up FitHo.

Month: Current Affairs - July, 2015