Helium Health, a Nigerian healthtech startup, has announced the acquisition of Meddy, a Middle East doctor booking platform for an undisclosed amount.
Headquartered in Qatar and based in UAE, Meddy was launched by Haris Aghadi (CEO) and Abed Alkarim Khattab (COO) in September 2014. It is an online platform that helps people in their quest to find the best doctors based on patient reviews and credentials.
The startup’s mission is to ensure a patient will never have a bad experience with a doctor and abides by the vision of being the primary intermediary between a patient and a doctor in the region.
Meddy currently serves more than 150 private clients within the UAE and Qatar. The company, backed with just $1.8 million in VC funding, has facilitated over 200,000 doctor appointments while enabling healthcare providers to generate approximately $130 million in billings. Meddy CEO will join Helium’s leadership team as part of the deal.
Helium Health’s acquisition of Meddy will help it expand its range of services, It will merge meddy with its patient-provider and revenue cycle management platform under the name Helium Doc.
Founded by Adegoke Olubusi, Dimeji Sofowora and Tito Ovia in 2016, Helium Health offers a wide range of health services to include Electronic Medical Records (EMR) and hospital management solutions, HeliumPay, a billing and payments solution; a collateral-free loan product, HeliumCredit; patient-provider and revenue cycle management service HeliumDoc; and data analytics services.
Commenting, Adegoke Olubusi said: “Over the next few months, a lot of what we’re doing is being able to better roll out these consolidated product suites in our markets and serve them more. I mean, we want to double, triple the growth of our client base over the next two to three years and extend our reach even further to make sure that Helium Health is the top health tech provider in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region just as it is in Africa.”
