1mg.com Expands its Services, Now Provides Diagnostic Tests with Free Home Pickup

1mg.com, India’s leading m-health platform and ePharmacy network today launched its Diagnostic Test booking service, available through the popular “1mg” mobile app and www.1mglabs.com. The m-health startup, which has over 3M downloads and is growing rapidly, has now added a new service to enable users to book wide-ranging diagnosis tests with some of the top quality certified laboratories, ensuring quality service. Presently, top labs like Metropolis, Oncquest, Thyrocare, Molecure, Wellness Pathcare etc are the partners, with plans to add more leading labs in the coming weeks. Currently, the service is available in Delhi NCR, Mumbai, Thane, and Pune. Now, 1mg offers Pharmacy, Diagnostic and also Homeopathy products through its platform as it prepares to be the one point destination for all healthcare content, products and services.

At the launch, Mr. Prashant Tandon, Founder 1mg said "We are seeing tremendous engagement from health consumers, and we are rapidly adding relevant services to make life easier for the health consumer. Through e-diagnostics, our goal is to provide a very convenient platform for booking lab tests through a model of home pickup and enable choice for the consumer based on transparent price comparison. To ensure best and professional diagnostic service, we have judiciously associated with the most proven and trusted labs"

Users can book an appointment at www.1mglabs.com, post which, the lab technician will reach their homes at a preferred time for free sample collection. In addition, they will also be able to receive their reports in a digital format online, besides getting the hard copy as well.

Driven by the goal to create a comprehensive online healthcare platform, 1mg is incorporating multiple services, helping patients to access Healthcare with ease, at lowest possible prices.

Prior to this, the company provided home delivery of Prescription, OTC and Super Specialty medicines through their strong pharmacy network. Recently, it launched 1mgAYUSH, a platform for Homeopathic medicines and Doctor Search web and app platform; Doctors by 1mg to help patients find relevant doctors.

As the company has received great admiration for their online pharmacy service over the years, team 1mg is quite confident about its new launch as well.

The company has constantly invested in innovating their product and services, benefiting customers on large scale. Recently, the company raised funding of $ 6 million from investors Sequoia Capital, Omidyar Network, Intel Capital and Kae capital.

About 1mg:

1mg is India’s primary m-health platform. With over 3 M downloads, it is the market leading favorite App of Indian consumers in the health space. It enables you to know more about your medicine and also find substitutes from other brands as well as their cost-effective generic equivalents. It is an initiative taken in the spirit of public service with a vision to empower Indian consumers and caregivers to select the most appropriate drug equivalent that is safe and pocket-friendly.

The application is available as a web portal– www.1mg.com and as mobile app across android/ iOS/ Windows.

 Features Offered:

• Search for drugs - Get full information on a drug and over-the-counter medicines such as the dosage, common usage, warnings and more

• Cost comparison of generic and prescribed drugs - Find the generic drug equivalents for commonly prescribed brand-name drugs, compare prices and save money.

• Drug Interaction - Learn more about how medicine works.

• What are the ingredients and also precautions need to be taken before and after its use.