Indonesian Healthcare Startup ‘Aibilities’ Has Big Ideas
One of the Jakarta Founders Institute’s graduates, Aibilities, recently just launched its new free android app called Dokita. Dokita, which stands for “dokter kita” or in English “our doctor,” provides users with first step health advice from stand-by doctors in period of 30 minutes to 1 hour on weekdays, from 9 A.M. to 5 P.M.. If asked by users, the doctors can also give some recommendation on medicine or prescriptions under certain circumstances.
Jakarta Founders InstituteのOBであるAibilitiesが最近、Dokitaという無料のAndroidアプリをローンチした。Dokitaは「dokter kita（英語の意味は『私のお医者さん』）」の略で、ユーザーはスタンバイしている医師から健康に関する初歩的なアドバイスが受けれる。サービスが受けれる時間は、平日の午前9時から午後5時までで、30分から1時間ほど医師と話ができる。ユーザーが尋ねれば、特定の条件のもと、医師は薬や処方箋についてのアドバイスもすることができる。
Jakarta Founders Instituteの卒業者の1人Aibilitiesが、先日新しい無料のAndroidアプリDokitaを発表した。“dokter kita”又は英語で“our doctor” （私達の医者）を意味するDokitaは、平日の午前9時～午後5時までの間30分～1時間で、スタンバイ中の医師からユーザーに第1段階の健康アドバイスを提供する。もし希望があれば、薬のおすすめや特定の状況下では処方箋も提供することができる。
When asked about Dokita’s statistics so far, Josep William Widjaja, the co-founder of Aibilities told us that Dokita currently has around 100 active users with a high rate of returning users. There are around 10 doctors involved so far. Josep hopes that the numbers will grow significantly in the coming months.
Josep also talked about Aibilities’ first product called Blink Control, which won the Samsung Android Mobile Apps award at Sparxup 2011. The Android app aims to help paralyzed patients to communicate through their gadgets using nothing but eye blinks as the input method for text-to-speech features.
同氏はまた、Aibilitiesの最初のプロダクトで、「Sparxup 2011」においてSamsung Android Mobile Apps賞を獲得したBlink Contorlについても語った。このアプリは音声変換機能の入力方法に「瞬き」を採用しているので、体の麻痺した患者は瞬きをするだけでガジェットを操作し、コミュニケーションがとれるようになっている。
JosepはまたAibilitiesの最初の製品でありSparxup 2011でSamsung Android Mobile Apps 賞を受賞したBlink Controlについても話してくれた。このAndroidアプリは、まひ患者がまばたきをしてテキストを音声に変換する入力方式によって、コミュニケーションを円滑にすることを目標としている。
Josep said that Blink Control has around 70 downloads from the Samsung App Store. He added that there is good traction and response from local and overseas markets. Some of the users love the app so much that they even volunteer to help be its evangelists.
Josep believes that Aibilities’ strategic partnerships are one of its main strengths, or as he puts it, its secret sauce. Last May, he told Dailysocial that Aibilities had established partnerships with the Doctors’ Association of West Jakarta and a medical health lab called Lab Wira. He added that Aibilities aims to hit around 1000 new users for Blink Control and 5000 users for Dokita this year. The 10-person team plans to extend its health services and apps to help more Indonesians and to one day be part of an international global health movement.
Both the apps from Aibilities are free to download, so it’s only natural for me to inquire about its business model, but I couldn’t draw Josep to comment on that just yet. There is also another similar healthcare solution for Indonesians called MeetDoctor.com that we wrote about last year. Although they both have similar features like free doctor consultations, I still love how the trend is going now: more local solutions to our healthcare problems.
Here is the video for the newest app Dokita:
