Being placed at campus and that too by a renowned major is any fresher's dream. Turning down such propositions may not be easy. But 22-year-old Kamalesh Babu Jayaram did just that to start his own venture – Doctor Oxy Healthcare Solutions (P) Ltd.

"This is actually my second venture. When I was in Class X, I wrote technical content for websites, made some money and floated a company that provided web content. This has since been absorbed," said this youngster, without going deeper into details about his maiden venture.

He joined Park Engineering College to pursue studies in electronics and communication engineering. Ón completion, I got an offer from two of the ‘Big 4’ accounting firms. They offered to pay in dollars. But I turned down the offers to form this company with my childhood friend, Pratibha, a computer science engineer.

An engineer into healthcare solutions venture?

"I come from a family with medical background. My mom and dad are medical professionals. I had the opportunity to study the systems in American hospitals, as my dad served in one of those hospitals for a couple of years.

Í realised that there is a felt need for a tablet-based health record system for doctors on-the-go. We developed one on a mobile platform," he said, narrating his 62-year-old dad and cardio-thoracic surgeon Jayaraman's experience.

"Dad is not a tech-savvy person. So, we decided to make the application very simple, lest he rejects our solution. He used to look up patients record on his PC or laptop earlier. He was reluctant to use the tablet initially, but is quite comfortable now, as he is able to view the files on-the-go.

"Though radiology reports are digitised, it is not available for doctors on the move. Our app has incorporated this and dad says that doctors will be able to save 20 to 30 per cent time with this system. We intend to launch this in the market by March.

Doctor Oxy is in talks with doctors and various hospitals on this tablet-based health record system for doctors.

Says Pratibha: "We are also in the process of maintaining a patient record portal. For this, we are in talks with hospitals. Usually, patients files - either digitised or otherwise - are in the custody of the hospital. The patient is given a discharge summary in the event of admission and a prescription. The other records are not made available to the patients. We felt that every patient should maintain a similar record, which he/she should be able to share with some other hospital in the same or any other city, without having to undertake the same tests again. This portal is meant for maintaining patients file/record. We are sounding this idea to various clinics and hospitals. The initial response has been good."

The duo has invested about Rs 15 lakh on this venture. They were one of the five start-ups identified by PSG-STEP (Science and Technology Entrepreneurial Park) in the fourth round of funding.

They were sanctioned Rs 12.50 lakhs.

Asked how they propose to utilise this money, Kamalesh said that they would look to scale-up and launch their products in the market.

'We will look to raise funds as well before the end of next year,' he said.

Doctor Oxy's development team comprises 15 people.

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