Porto Digital startup helps healthcare go digital

A startup from IASP member Porto Digital, Ti.Saúde, has recently announced its acquisition by the DPSP Group, the largest privately held company in Brazil.  

The acquisition allows the startup to create the largest physical and digital health ecosystem in the country, with investments of more than half a billion reais. Ultimately they hope to democratize access to medicine. Everything will happen through a platform, called Viva Saúde, where doctors, laboratories, health plans, hospitals and customers will be aggregated into a single system, focusing on the 75% that do not have private care. The goal is to connect 10 million clients and 150 thousand doctors in five years, in the four corners of the country..

Once the tool is in operation, it will make it possible to carry out remote consultations, schedule exams, create electronic medical records and even compare drug prices and receive information. And as an open and free interface proposal for competitors, it allows users to share their medical records, thus allowing a customization of services offered by pharmacies, doctors, clinics or even hospitals.

Today, more than ten thousand health professionals use platforms developed by the company, which brings together more than five million active patients and more than 11 million medical records and prescriptions.

For Fred Rabêlo, co-founder and CEO/CTO of Ti.Saúde, the world is currently experiencing a true digital transformation, a path also followed by the health sector.

“Today, everything starts with systems, applications, and it's time to make this help a lot in people's lives, with an even greater focus on those who are far from conventional services, whether for economic reasons, difficult access or even lack of time,” he says.

“Ti.Saúde was born in Recife with a focus on developing systems to link medical and patient processes. All our experience will now be expanded into a tool that is enough to break the precedents that make access to health difficult and guarantee quick, practical and democratic access to these services," highlights co-founder Fábio Revoredo.

The purchase of Ti.Saúde by the DPSP Group is part of its commitment to creating a digital health ecosystem. The group currently owns 1,393 pharmacy units, under the Drogaria São Paulo and Drogarias Pacheco brands, and has 26,000 employees. It’s a sharp contrast with Ti.Saúde, which was founded just five years ago by brothers Fred, Flávio and Fábio: respectively, systems engineer, lawyer and doctor. They currently employ almost 50 people, a number that could double in 2022.

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