Apollo, Microsoft tie up on digital healthcare to staff

Apollo Hospitals Group's digital arm Apollo 24|7 and Microsoft India have joined hands to provide their employees access to an online health and wellness solution through Microsoft Teams work suite. Prior to the launch, the digital solution was successfully tested in a pilot programme for Microsoft India employees for a period of three months.

As part of the pilot programme, around 5,000 Microsoft employees were given access to this enterprise platform and over 50 per cent of them chose to take virtual consultations with an Apollo doctor during the months of April–June. In addition to virtual consultations, over 2,600 medicine orders were also placed using the app, which were delivered at the doorsteps of the consumers in record time.

Each of the registered Microsoft employees had access to over 7,000 doctors and specialists across the Apollo network. Amid the fears of Covid-19, organisations have been increasingly on the lookout for digital healthcare solutions to support their employees and families. This tie up enables online access to medical consultation, vaccine booking, pharmacy, diagnostic tests and wellness programmes.

Microsoft's Executive Director, Strategic Growth, Meetul Patel said, "in today's hybrid work environment, organisations are increasingly looking to make access to wellness resources easier for their employees. Our partnership with Apollo has helped bring this access right into the flow-of -work by making resources easy to access from within Microsoft Teams."