SINGAPORE, Jan. 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Launched last September, DoctorPage, (http://doctorpage.sg), the healthcare portal that facilitates online appointment booking has announced new milestones: the four-month old website now has more than 12,500 doctors and dentists listed on its platform, with more than 250,000 unique users each month accessing DoctorPage to connect with their healthcare professionals. In achieving these milestones, DoctorPage has firmly established itself as the market leader and preferred choice for patients in Singapore.
DoctorPage provides a quick, reliable and easy-to-use platform for users looking to make an appointment with their preferred healthcare provider thereby improving healthcare access in the city-state. Led by a team experienced in online marketing and technology, DoctorPage helps doctors and dentists create an online presence in Singapore and soon, across Asia. Every healthcare professional has a personalized online profile detailing his/her qualifications, professional affiliations and professionally taken photographs. These profiles are aggregated and made available on the DoctorPage website and iPhone app. With DoctorPage, healthcare providers now have the option of choosing between different tiers of customizable marketing services that are both targeted and cost-effective.
A complementary customer relationship management (CRM) system to manage appointment schedules is also provided to the healthcare professionals, to optimize patient flow and clinic efficiency. In addition, marketing analytics are summarized on a single page, providing doctors with statistics on the number of patient searches, profile views and bookings.
"DoctorPage now has the largest database of doctors and dentists in Singapore, and this greatly improves healthcare access for our users," said Dr. Dawn Soo, CIO at DoctorPage. "Feedback from the healthcare professionals has been very encouraging; they are seeing more patients and our CRM has helped free up a significant amount of their time."
On the demand side, DoctorPage is also seeing a rapidly increasing number of users searching and booking appointments with doctors and dentists. The easy-to-use pages coupled with ease of searching and booking doctors by specialty and location has proven to be popular among users.
"More than 250,000 unique users each month use our website; making DoctorPage the e-Health portal with the largest user base in Singapore," said Mr. Scheichenost, CEO at DoctorPage. "Our analysis shows that user engagement with our website is high - our users are looking up information about the doctor's practice and clinical experience before making appointments with him/her."
As the current market leader in Singapore, DoctorPage is now setting its sights internationally, looking to bring its services to users in the surrounding Asia-Pacific region.
About DoctorPage
DoctorPage was founded in June 2012 in Singapore by Max-F. Scheichenost, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Dr. Dawn Soo, Co-Founder and Chief Information Officer (CIO), and Daniel Endres, Chief Operating Officer (COO). It aims to improve healthcare access across Asia by providing a user-friendly platform that enables patients to search and book appointments with their preferred healthcare providers in a few simple clicks. A complementary customer relationship management system (CRM) is provided to the healthcare professionals to help optimize patient flow and clinic efficiency. DoctorPage recently released a new version of its iOS and iPad app which is available for download on iTunes and is currently working on its android app.
Mr. Scheichenost was the co-founder of DailyDeal (acquired by Google Inc. in September 2011), and Founder and Managing Partner of Alps Ventures, an Austrian-based investment company.
Dr. Soo is a medical physician by training with clinical experience in both the public and private healthcare sectors in Singapore. In addition she holds an MBA from top-tier business school, INSEAD.
Mr. Endres was the Entrepreneur in Residence at DailyDeal and Operations Manager at home24 in Berlin.
For further information, please contact:
Diana Yu
Phone: +65-3157-8905
E-mail: press@doctorpage.sg
