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Strength
• India's first AI-powered healthcare platform.
• Its consumer app had launched in Bangalore.
• Making high quality hospital networks accessible to consumers as per demand.
• Mfine is a mobile health platform that integrates branded hospitals to provide on-
demand healthcare to patients.
• Its AI platform helps improve the productivity of doctors and the quality of diagnosis.
Weakness
• Clinic segregation and distance to community-based outpatient clinics.
• Community each: community-based outpatient clinic has different capabilities and
support services.
• For suppliers, it tends to be expensive to set up and maintain. Although a great and
worthy service, telemedicine can be overwhelming.
• Applies not only to acute disease, but also to chronic disease counselling.
• The high cost of marketing as a similar service provider to several established players
in the market.
• Physicians need the necessary training in handling for the first time so that the cost of
training will be higher.
Opportunities
• Mfine that digital health is about to transform India’s $40 billion primary healthcare
market.
• Overwhelmed by the positive response from consumers and has already got 10,000
apps installed from Bangalore within 4 weeks of launch.
• Consumers are seeing the value of having to consult online, get to the hospital and
face the long wait instead of instantly connecting to the hospital and looking for an
appointment. Initial customer feedback shows that they like the active experience
they get from Mfine.
• Patients with the Mfine app reach quality doctors within 10 minutes, consult with
them and get a prescription. All their medical history (prescriptions, lab reports and
other data) are stored securely in the app and they also receive timely reminders to
better comply with the prescription.
Threats
• Physicians are reluctant to share records of video consultations with patients to avoid
legal complications.
• Strict Medicaid laws and non-regulatory rules.
• Many competing companies such as Practo, DocsApp, Lybrate and EHNOTE Doc
etc.
Mfine Revenue & Expenditure:
• To boost growth on the scale, Mfine has significantly increased its workforce and
spent Rs.39.4 crore on employee benefits, which is 3.5X times higher than the Rs 11.4
crore spent in the same period in 2010-1. The total expenditure in FY20 increased by
3.1X to Rs 111.6 crore, which is Rs 36.2 crore in FY19.
• In addition, rents for leased property and electronic equipment have increased from
Rs 4.3X to Rs 6.04 crore.
• Business promotion costs accounted for the largest costs for Mfine, accounting for
35.1% of the company's total spending in the last fiscal year. Such expenses
increased by 2.7X to Rs 39.2 crore in FY20 from Rs 14.3 crore in FY19. Last month,
Mfine advertised Bollywood actor Sonu Sood as its brand ambassador for
telemedicine and counselling services and Covid-1 antibody testing at the company’s
home. The three-year-old start-up had a total revenue of Rs 12.2 crore in the fiscal
year ended March 2020, more than half of which was earned through interest on
collection deposits and mutual fund returns. Revenue from the operation has
increased rapidly and increased by 7.3X in FY20 to Rs 5.12 crore from Rs 70 lakh
earned in FY19.