Sudheer JainCo-founder of Pocket Pill & Care Circle Published On: Friday, September 16, 2016 Views 4761

Pocket Pill

We are building a 360 degree compliance platform for patients to help them improve their health. It starts with patient empowerment and engagement. Compliance contrary to popular thinking does not involve only pill intake but a whole lot more. It starts from seeing the doctor at regular intervals, getting regular lab and other investigation done; getting regular nutrition and exercise updates and comply with them; knowing about medications and diseases and finally taking medicines regularly.

Care Circle

Care Circle is a practice management and collaboration platform for Doctors to connect with their patients, other doctors for case referral and streamline their operations in clinic.

Personal Experience: My dad is taking diabetes and hypertension medicines for over 10 years. I was living away from home for last 16 years but always felt how I can play my small part to help him with understanding medicines and how important it is to take medicines as prescribed.

My co-founder who is a Senior Doctor has developed hypothyroidism which necessitates taking a tablet every morning. As a Doctor, he knows everything about the consequences of missing doses, but still often forgets to take his own medicines. He finds it extremely difficult to remember and incorporate in his lifestyle. He also had patient who forget to take blood thinners for four days and landed to his emergency with major heart attack. These turn of events made him realize the importance of enforcing compliance and its issues only spoken in medical conference but never enforced. These personal experiences has made us realize that instead of simply reminding them when and what to do, we need to be part of their journey and help them give confidence to be more engaged and empowered in managing their health.

Do the right thing.

Managing cash-flow at company and asking money from family & friends to help run my startup.

The entire product team had left at same time in January of this year. It was tough to get good resources at below market cost. A positive mindset was needed to build a rock-star team again and I am so glad and lucky that we could get people who believe in our vision.

Me and my co-founder are currently funding it.

Patience, perseverance, and respect for others.

Slack, Trello, MSG91, Livechat

Plan your day and focus on one task at a time.

One tip to success:

I am still learning and do not have a tip for success for others. But what I think is, success or failure is only an outcome of something we do. If you think, a failure or challenge can teach us lot more things than a quick success.

One mistake you believe every individual must avoid:

This is for first time entrepreneurs. When you start up, make sure you have a business plan and a clear road map. Go out and talk to your customers early and get the value proposition clearly.

One most important lesson that you have learnt till now:

Start with doing something small and iterate product quickly to reach its goals.

Building a kick ass health tech product at Care Circle and Pocket Pill which can bring meaningful differences in people’s life.

Northeast, India & Taking cruise to Alaska from Seattle

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”