Practo, Asia’s leading healthcare platform today released its annual healthcare findings – The Practo Healthcare Map of India 2015 which aims to highlight the key consumer healthcare concerns. The report also highlights the fastest growing concerns to enable the healthcare industry focus on the illness types that ail the population today as well as pro-actively address those that could become the next set of challenges.
This report is based on search data from Practo which has nearly 40 million appointments per year and over 75M searches across 200,000 doctors and over 200 specialties.
Key finding – Healthcare Map of India 2015
· Overall India: Total search volume grew over 9x to 10M+ searches a month. The fastest growing searched specialties are:
o Gastroenterologists – 204%
o Cardiologists – 163%
o ENT – 142%
o Paediatricians -126%
o Dentists – 109%
· Tier 1*: Growth in Top Searched Specialties:
o Gastroenterologist – 255%
o ENT – 235%
o Dentist 159%
o Cardiologist 155%
o Pediatrician – 152%
· Tier 2/3**: Growth in Top Searched Specialties:
o Gastroenterologist – 201%
o Cardiologist 183%
o ENT 147%
o Neurologist – 133%
o Pediatrician 130%
Overall India:
While total search volume grew over 9x to 10M+ searches a month. The top searched specialties are:
1. Dentists
2. ENT
3. Paediatrician
4. Gastroenterologists
5. Cardiologists
In Delhi, while the biggest health issues remain Gynecology, Dermatology and Dentistry, the fastest growing are Gastroenterology (16x), ENT (9X) and Dentistry (6.6x).
In Mumbai, in tandem with the national findings, ENT (2.4X), Gastroenterology (1.5X) and Pediatrics (1X) are the fastest growing healthcare issues. The biggest healthcare issues in the city are Dermatology, Gynecology and Dentistry.
In Pune, the biggest healthcare concerns are Dermatology, Gynecology and Dentistry. while the fastest growing healthcare issues include ENT (4.3x) followed by Cardiology (4.3x) and Pediatrics (3.3 x)
In Bengaluru, the biggest healthcare concerns are Dermatology, Pediatrics and Dentistry, while the fastest growing healthcare issues include Pediatrics (1.8 x) followed by Gastroenterology (1.8x %) and ENT (1.4x).
In Hyderabad, the biggest healthcare concerns are Dermatology, Gynecology and ENT, while the fastest growing healthcare issues include Gastroenterology (2.3x) followed by Pediatrics (2x) and Cardiology (1.7x)
In Chennai, the biggest healthcare concerns are Dermatology, Gynecology and Dentistry, while the fastest growing healthcare issues include Pediatrics (1.8x) followed by Dentistry (1.3x) followed by Gastroenterology (1x)
In Chandigarh, Gastroenterology (16.5X), Cardiology (15.8X), and Urologist (9.4X) are the fastest growing healthcare issues.
In Kolkatta, in tandem with the national findings, Cardiology (3X), Gastroenterology (2X), and ENT (1.4X) are the fastest growing healthcare issues.
In Jaipur, Gastroenterology (15.6X), and Urologist (13.3X) and ENT (9.3x) are the fastest growing healthcare issues.
In Ahmedabad, Gastroenterology (36.8X), and Cardiology (31.3X) and Urologist (16.2x) are the fastest growing healthcare issues.