A simple graphical representation of my portal’s Live Chat with a Doctor feature…

A start-up is too much work, you gotta keep the wheel running, no matter whatever f**ks-up or slows down, you gotta keep it moving… You know you’re a geek of very high order since your school days. You knew what Web is all about when you were a 10 year old kid. Finally, You’re now an entrepreneur, running your own show on the Web 2.0, which mix Web 2.0 with healthcare in India.

Things always don’t stay same, the thing called “change” is most constant thing in the life… yes it is, full of ups & down! What you do…?

You do… Reverse Entrepreneurship!

What is that? …That is something which build companies like Apple! That is something that makes you know who you are, what you can do and do more! And that keeps the wheel running, the wheel you build by your own hands and you know that wheel will go a long way! …And trust me it is a bliss!

It’s been great support from all of you… and surely it’s been a roller-coaster journey since we started. Company is moving smoothly, we’re kind of a “brand” now, we’re in the news, in the media and it is simply rocking!… Traffic on the portal is like that graph will never come down, people are just loving the service…

As most of you know, till now I am the single tech-geek around here… I guess, this is the time for me to move-up & release myself from day-to-day development activities as I have other roles to play, mostly on the tech-managerial side. 

Now, I am looking to in-house technical stuff and make a technical team in my company.

Mainly, I am looking for a special breed of technologists, which rarely exist in the tech-industry, even if it exist… it is hard to find such people with mix of both tech & entrepreneurial aspirations.

To start-with I’m looking to hire someone as a Technical Architect in my company. Just explore the info attached below, and just shoot me if you find it in-sync with something you always wanted to do or you find the same thing, same breed in one of your friend.

Just shoot me the CV & other introductory stuff, I always exist on same number +91 9900230494… can get-in touch instantly and we may discuss this opportunity in detail, interview & stuff…

Feel free to forward this opportunity to your friends and surely let me know if you find someone who fits in the role…

Company: RxHCM Corp. // www.HealthcareMagic.com
Industry: Health 2.0 / Web 2.0 / Media 2.0 / Connected Healthcare / SaaS /
Position: Technical Architect
Contact: Send CV to Shekhar@HealthcareMagic.com

Location: Bangalore
Job Profile: Excellent command over Web 2.0 Technologies e.g. J2EE, JSP, HTML, CSS, PHP, AJAX, JAVAScript, MySQL…
Knowledge of new platforms like Google WebToolkit, OpenSocial, Facebook Platform is an advantage.

What I’m Looking For: I am looking for expertise, not for experience.  Even if you’re a school kid with highly skilled in coding & design… I‘d love to hear from you… (don’t worry, we will make sure that you don’t miss your school!!)…

In other words, Mainly… I am looking for a Web 2.0 geek, definitely a geek of very high order with excellent exposure in current web technologies, someone with that "out of box thinking" & that "entrepreneurial bug"… someone who is passionate that Health 2.0 is the next big thing, someone who wants wear multiple hats & someone who wish to be part of which is never been done in India. Passion to work in a start-up, doing something new everyday.

Salary & Stuff: We love OpenSource, but at the end of the day money matters…!! What we can offer you is definitely better than what you are having & you can imagine! …Join us, do something great & if you rock, you’ll also have ESOPs in the company with-in 6 months of work with us… remember you must ROCK!!… You know what it means having ESOPs!… So, here’s the chance to work for yourself… I hope you might have heard about the “joy of working for yourself” & “developing that application/platform by your own hand… and you feel like it is your own baby”… I know you only heard, but here’s the chance to do it & feel it…!!

About HealthcareMagic.com: We’re a 2.0 Company!.. HealthcareMagic.com is the world’s first platform allowing a live interaction between Healthcare Services / Doctors and Patients over Internet as well as phone, Allowing integrated comparison shopping for Health products & services. HealthcareMagic.com enables patients, you & your family and friends to share their experiences with a Healthcare provider like Doctors & Hospitals, to research and purchase Healthcare Products and services with the same ease and transparency as shopping for other products online.

The Economic Times honored us as India’s first Health 2.0 platform. Also, HealthcareMagic.com is a TIE Canaan Entrepreneurial Challenge 2008 finalist.

Click here to know more about the company

What we don’t do:

• Bind you by processes
• Promote you every 2 years
• Send you to class for trainings
• Give you a fancy designation
• Provide cab for pick and drop

What you can expect:

• Quality Work
• Respect for your ideas & creative freedom
• Responsibility and accountability
• Wearing ‘multiple hats’
• Your contributions reflecting in company’s progress

Who We Are: We are the entrepreneurs. We think, think a lot & think big… convert our ideas to action, we have created applications & platforms that not only run a company but build companies. We’re a small team of collectively more than 100 years of experience in technology & healthcare. Team includes rare combination of seasoned technical guys, grads from IIMs & IITs, IT Industry veterans & highly skilled MBBS & MD Doctors… Doctors, who are Doctor+Managers!

More about the team here

Sounds interesting to you?… Why don’t you get in touch with me on Shekhar@HelathcareMagic.com  // +91 9900230494

This is excellent. I am glad to inform you all that my start-up HealthcareMagic.com is one of finalist at TIE Canaan Entrepreneurial Challenge 2008. We have submitted our Business Plan for the challenge couple of weeks ago and we’re among 8 finalist! Total 140 start-ups from all over India competed for the challenge, and it is great to be one of the finalist.

Let’s see, we’re working on it… we’re the only company representing Bangalore and I feel the concept we’re working on at HealthcareMagic.com is full of potential to to go to a long way!

Here more details & finalists on VentureWoods

According to the latest issue of “Outlook Business” magazine, the healthcare services in India’s private hospitals is getting world class. However, the customer service at the same private hospitals is not able to catch up with the rapid developments in the infrastructure of the hospital. The patients are happy with the patient care but they are still unhappy with the quality of customer care they get. Waiting in the queue, doctor not available on time, payment hassles etc.

A new trend that is coming up in this eco-system of traditional healthcare delivery through Hospitals / Clinics is “Online Healthcare”. The doctors and hospitals can look at this as a channel that filters the patients and then forwards them to the doctors and hospitals for treatment.

Online Healthcare includes a few important aspects as mentioned below. At the core of the system is a central web-site or portal.

• It provides an access to doctor online for Live Chat. The patients can use the Internet and chat with the doctor. The doctors can provide medical advice to handle the current situation and then refer the patient to the nearest hospital and doctor in their locality. Doctors also provide answers for the common medical queries.

• It provides patient generated reviews about the hospitals and doctors and also the contact details of the doctors and hospitals.

• It provides a Forum where people of similar health problems can discuss with each other.

• The website also provides content in the form of answers to common queries, which the patients might have.

• The website has common health tools and price listings for the common medical procedures in hospitals.

• Patients can buy medicine over the Internet and it will be delivered to their home.

Such trend is already popular in the USA and Europe. Many websites like WebMD is widely used worldwide. In India, HealthcareMagic has recently started this service and has already referred hundreds of patients for OPD and IPD procedures in Bangalore.

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What brand of shirt & trouser do you wear?  Allen Solly, Van Heusen, Polo! Each costing you atleast a couple of thousand bucks!! How often do you go to restaurants, pubs? Once in a week, twice in  week, costing atleast 500 Rs each time.

Irrespective of whether you are a young bachelor, or a young couple  recently married & having one or no kids or you are a middle aged person with a high school going child, there’s no denying that the spending pattern of the Indians have changed a lot in the last few years. Everyone spends on br&ed products. The local tailors have long perished at the on-set of major apparel br&s. India is on a move. Everyone earns decent amount of money in the metros. Thousand rupees has no value today in the metros.

Have you ever thought how we react when we talk about the spend on Healthcare. My God!! His fees is 400 bucks. He just made a big hole in my budget. My goodness, this medicine costs 94 Rs. I stopped the Antibiotics because I got well in 2 tablets. You know what - each tablet costed 14 bucks. The Doctors these days just give you expensive medicine!!

Come on, I just want to ask these so called Rising Indian Middle Class. They can spend thousands on a shirt, thousands on a massage, facial, pedicure, hair cut; lakhs on a foreign trip. But when it comes to their own health, it seems they become the same old small town middle class hesitant to spend every penny they have. It is very surprisng to see people cribbing for Doctors fees, medicine cost etc when their vehicles would have guzzled up more petrol in reaching the Doctor & hospital. It’s all in the mind. Service industry is still in shambles because people don’t want to pay unless it becomes a question of life & death. Very few people buy health insurance on their own, citing reasons like their company gives them an insurance coverage already. How small is that corporate provided insurance, nobody cares.

Is it time when we start taking our health as seriously as we purchase our shirt or buy a pizza!! How many of the people over 30 actually go for a full body check up each year? How many have ever paid for it? Everyone is looking for FREE items when it comes to his/her own health. According to a survey, 90% of the young people in Bangalore have undergone health check up only because the health insurance company mandated them to get it done for free. Had it been a paid service, again, very few of these 90% would have been even insured.

Interesting to read such findings but it is time when we start allocating a certain percentage of our income. Even 2-5 Rs. per day to take care of our health coverage for life. People need to understand that health is not a one time down-payment item. It needs to be invested throughout the life time. Why become so stingy when it comes to our own health.

I found a CSS Gallery somewhere on the web few days (I can’t find the link to that site, If found I will update the link here). It was pretty simple & starlight forward CSS to build an image gallery. Recently, I needed to put all supporting articles on BabyMagic in an easy navigation, Modified it a bit and out it under a rounded DIV’s. I wanted to create a bookshelf kind of UI so that anyone can easily navigate through the documents. A live demo is up, click the image at the end of this post see the demo. The good thing about this CSS Gallery is there’s no JS/AJAX, all pure CSS sweetness & it looks great! All the used images can be downloaded at Demo.

Here are the CSS & XHTML I used for it…

CSS for the Gallery

   1: #gallery {

   2:   padding:0;

   3:   margin:0 auto;

   4:   list-style-type:none;

   5:   overflow:hidden;

   6:   width:700px;

   7:   height:100px;

   8:   border:0px solid #888;

   9:   background:#fff url(../images/win_backh.gif);

  10:   }

  11: #gallery li {

  12:   float:left;

  13:   }

  14: #gallery li a {

  15:   display:block;

  16:   height:100px;

  17:   width:24px;

  18:   overflow:hidden;

  19:   float:left;

  20:   text-decoration:none;

  21:   border-right:1px solid #fff;

  22:   cursor:default;

  23:   }

  24: #gallery li a img {border:0;

  25:   }

  26: #gallery li a:hover {

  27:   background:#eee;

  28:   width:100px;

  29:   }

CSS for the Rounded DIVs

   1: .search_gallery {

   2:     text-align:left;

   3:     width:730px;

   4:     margin-left:35px;

   5:     position:relative;

   6: }

   7: .search_gallery .head {

   8:     background-image:url(../images/babytop.gif);

   9:     background-repeat:no-repeat;

  10:     width:100%;

  11:     height:35px;

  12: }

  13: .search_gallery .body {

  14:     background-image:url(../images/babyrepeat.gif);

  15:     background-repeat:repeat-y;

  16:     width:100%;

  17:     height:100%;

  18:     text-align:left;

  19:     padding-left:0px;

  20:     padding-right:0px;

  21: }

  22: .search_gallery .foot2 {

  23:     background-image:url(../images/foot1.gif);

  24:     background-repeat:no-repeat;

  25:     height:16px;

  26: }

XHTML for the Gallery

   1: <div class="search_gallery">

   2:     <div class="head"></div>

   3:     <div class="body">

   4:

   5: <ul id="gallery">

   6:

   7:         <li><a href="suppdocs/newborn.html"><img src="imagewin00.gif" alt="Sample Alt Text" title="Sample Title"/></a></li>

   8:

   9:         <li><a href="suppdocs/breastfeeding.html"><img src="imagewin1.gif" alt="Sample Alt Text" title="Sample Title"/></a></li>

  10:

  11:         <li><a href="suppdocs/breastfeeding_tech.html"><img src="imagewin2.gif" alt="Sample Alt Text" title="Sample Title" /></a></li>

  12:

  13:         <li><a href="suppdocs/changesinbody.html"><img src="imagewin6.gif" alt="Sample Alt Text" title="Sample Title" /></a></li>

  14:

  15:         <li><a href="suppdocs/comonprobs2.html"><img src="imagewin5.gif" alt="Sample Alt Text" title="Sample Title" /></a></li>

  16:

  17:         <li><a href="suppdocs/comonprobs.html"><img src="imagewin4.gif" alt="Sample Alt Text" title="Sample Title" /></a></li>

  18: </ul>

  19:

  20: <div class="foot2"> </div>

  21:   </div></div>

HealthcareMagic launched it’s new product BabyMagic Beta last week. Some people have asked us questions so thought of consolidating them here. BabyMagic is still in BETA, please visit and give me your feedback on comments or send me a mail on Shekhar@HealthcarecareMagic.com

What is Baby Magic?

Baby Magic is a personalized portal to provide information to prospective parents, pregnant mothers and to the parents who have children within the age group of 1 to 3 years. The portal will provide week by week information about what to expect when you are expecting. The precautions, the myths, common remedies, Dos and Don’ts. The portal also provides similar information on a month on month basis for babies from 0 months to 36 months.

What is Unique About it?

The BabyMagic portal has a “chat with a doctor” feature. If the parents have any question while reading the content on our portal or have any specific query related to conception, infertility, pregnancy, vaccination and child care, the parents can click “chat with a doctor” button and have live chat with a doctor in REAL TIME.

What are the new features coming up?

The beta launch has only static content. Going further, parents can subscribe to a newsletters and they will get a weekly email (during pregnancy) and monthly newsletter and vaccination reminder (after child birth). If the parents (and expecting parents) require appointment fixing with gynaecologists, paeditricians and infertility specialists, they can do it through the portal.

So what is it finally?

A complete package for “celebrating parenthood”. A must-register feature. Your Child is Special. What’s more, it is totally FREE.

20 days since launch, more than 50000 visits on our portal which we build for you and over 850+ patients/user chatted with our Doctors online. We are now very much confident about the market opportunity and all geared up to take HealthcareMagic.com to next stage.

To assist us with our endeavor, we are looking to bring on board a Sales & Marketing Executive, who would be responsible for spreading awareness about HealthcareMagic’s services and much more. The position is going to be very challenging, filled with responsibilities and scope for innovation.

If you are interested in getting involved with a fun filled start-up environment, and benefit from working with start-up through stock options please do get in touch with us. Do forward this to your friends who could be interest in this opportunity.

Also, we’re looking for Telemarketing Executives, preferably female candidates with excellent expertise in customer handeling, customer interaction, data validation & moderation. Also, you should have good communication, interpersonal skills and okay-types english… not that good english, desi english will do!

For both opening & more details, shoot your CV (((NOW!!))) to me on my mail ID shekhar@healthcaremagic.com or directly get in touch with me on +91 9900230494.

PS: We are not looking for 1-2-3 years of experience! …0 years is fine!…We’re looking for expertise!… People who are innovative, can think what other don’t think, self-starters… You dont need to hold a shining degree from a super college. If you do that’s okay… If you want to start & start like never before, this is a chance to kick-it-off…!!

Been busy, very busy for long time… Lost my blog’s DB & all posts as it was secretly hosted on my college hosting for last 1.5 years and those buggers have deleted my domain folder from the hosting… anyways… In the mean time, I quit my last company and… started my own company…

I’m glad to inform you about my new venture www.HealthcareMagic.com

Usually we come across this situation when we’re looking for a Doctor or Hospital in the nearby location? Wondering whether the Doctor is good or bad? How do his patients rate him? Worst, you want to crib about a Doctor who gave you all those costly medicines for no bloody reason? Well, hit the wild web… and make your own decision!

And to help you out… I’ve recently launched the BETA version of HealthcareMagic. HealthcareMagic is India’s first Health 2.0 Portal bridging the gap between end-users like us and Healthcare services in an interactive, user-friendly way. HealthcareMagic allows live interaction between doctors and patients, and is a integrated comparison portal for health. Most importantly, the portal allows reviews of doctors/hospitals and Healthcare products/services. We’ve done the portal nicely and one can search for doctors/hospitals based on specialties/area code, as well as chat with doctors online. Currently the portal is Bangalore-only, we will be expanding the portal yo you city very soon.

On HealthcareMagic.com you can…

• Chat with a Doctor online for FREE!
• Doctors available Online from 9.00 AM - 9.00 PM IST
• Share your experiences, write reviews about Doctors & Hospitals you visited or know.
• Search & Compare Doctors & Hospitals in Bangalore
• Patient information are fully CONFIDENTIAL
• Interactive features like Health Calculators & Hospitalization Cost Calculators which helps you take your decisions
• HealthcareMagic Blog

Please share you views about the portal online or just leave me a note by replying me…
If you have any interesting feature in mind which you want to see on the portal, feel free to reach me directly on phone +91 9900230494

Thanks & Have a blessed day ahead…

PS: I’m still in process to finalize a theme for my blog… just experimenting with Fresh, might move back to iTheme.