Medical Diagnostics is providing essential data along the healthcare continuum. Lab tests currently represent a small percentage of the total healthcare spending while influencing most of the treatment decisions. Driven by trends such as aging population, unhealthy lifestyle and the rise of chronic diseases, the role and importance of medical diagnostics is fast expanding in India. Since 2009, MEDALL Healthcare has been leading from the front in the radical transformation of healthcare services delivery through their medical diagnostics services, with a vision to provide laboratory, radiology imaging, and other relevant services to help serve and solve the health-related challenges of its customers.
MEDALL Healthcare (MEDALL) is a South India’s largest & India’s fastest growing integrated diagnostic services provider, with over 2,500 competent and committed individuals and over 200 MD Radiologists, Pathologists, Biochemists, and Microbiologists. MEDALL has over 2000 points of presence in 8 states including Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Pondicherry, Jharkhand, Telangana, and Maharashtra. Apart from establishing a chain of diagnostic centers, MEDALL has also created an integrated healthcare delivery platform with the comprehensive range of diagnostic services in radiology and pathology under one roof. The company offers the comprehensive range of imaging services like CT, MRI, Ultrasound, Doppler, Mammography, Bone Mineral Densitometry and Nuclear medicine. The company also offers a wide range of laboratory services, like Biochemistry, Hematology, Serology, Microbiology, Immunology, Cytology, Molecular Biology, Special Chemistry & Clinical Pathology. Patient Safety with low radiation doses & tailoring the protocols to children are some of the unique features offered by MEDALL.
Delivering high-quality results from its NABL accredited state-of-the-art Central Processing Labs, MEDALL has earned trust of millions of customers’ in the last so many years, and has effectively leveraged the strength of its integrated Radiology & Pathology platforms to offer tailor made health check packages like Platinum Health Check, Well Women’s Package, Senior Citizen’s Package, Arthritis Package. Over 3000 corporates have partnered with MEDALL for their corporate & executive employee health checks. The company serves over 10 million customers & performs 25 million plus tests annually.
Meet the “Adept Serial Entrepreneur” behind MEDALL
MEDALL Healthcare was founded by Mr. Raju Venkatraman in 2009, with a mission to bring affordable healthcare services for all. He is a distinguished alumnus of IIT Madras and IIM, Ahmedabad. Mr. Raju is a go-getter, and who has built several companies in a career spanning 35 years. In his career, he has done an outsourcing deals worth over USD 2 Billion dollars, managed 25,000 plus employees and raised over 700 million dollars of equity. Raju has traveled to over 38 countries and has managed business in 18 countries.
Acting as the main driving force behind MEDALL, Raju is also the chairperson of the WPO Chennai Chapter (World President’s Organisation) and had been elected as the President of Madras Management Association for the year 2014-15. Recipient of Entrepreneur Award from TiECON from Tamil Nadu Government in 2008-09, President of TiECON, 2013 Chennai Chapter and a widely recognized expert & speaker in the field of business process outsourcing and healthcare industry are few more jewels in the crown Mr. Raju have.
Serving Mankind and Making a Difference
MEDALL Healthcare was chosen by Government of Andhra Pradesh to implement the statewide free lab diagnostic services in over 1300 hospitals and health centers across the state. MEDALL’s compassionate and solicitous effort benefited over five Crores people across 13 districts in the state through world class diagnostic services. The patients gained access to advanced tests processed in automated analyzers with computerized reports in Biochemistry, Immunoassay, Hematology, Cytology, Microbiology & Histopathology. MEDALL has also partnered with the governments of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Jharkhand, Telangana through Public Private Partnerships (PPP) to provide diagnostics services with dignity to the poorest of the poor. In all these projects, MEDALL serves the customers who are below the poverty line with dignity, accuracy of testing & fastest turnaround time.
Feathers in the Cap
MEDALL Medical Academy (MMA) is a division of MEDALL that concentrates on training graduates in imaging technologies. Professionals get trained by eminent Radiologists and Sonologists, thus bridging the gap of acute shortage of qualified and skilled diagnostics professionals within the domestic market in India.
MEDALL Behavioural Health Services (MBHS), another division of MEDALL works towards bridging the gap between the ever increasing prevalence of mental illness and the lack of awareness of the same among public. The services offered include Individual Counseling, Family & Marital Counseling, Psychological Testing, Consultation to Corporates & Educational Institutions.
MEDALL’s unique “Health on Wheels” model, a mobile diagnostics initiative to provide corporates the platform to avail quality diagnostic services at their doorstep, to provide doctor’s consultation, blood collection, ultrasound and ECG and X-ray facilities.
As MEDALL grows by leaps and bounds, the organization is focusing towards bringing a paradigm shift from “Cure to Care”, spreading awareness about the importance of “Preventive Health” checks and continuous monitoring of health parameters.