By Aashna Chauhan

Baljit Singh, SLP Bangalore fellow and  founder and CEO of mTatva, has been awarded the "Healthcare Entrepreneur of the Year 2014" Runner up by Doc N Doc & Gammex Saviour Awards 2014 in Delhi.

The awards ceremony, an initiative of healthcare magazine Doc N Doc, saw over 50 awards being bestowed across several categories, covering hospitals, doctors, pharmaceutical companies, researchers, innovators, international personalities, campaigns and social development initiatives. The winners were decided on the basis of the votes cast by Doc N Doc readers who voted robustly and indiscriminatingly, making the competition close in most categories.

mTatva is a startup that digitises prescriptions which allows the doctor to devote an extra two minutes to the patient. Started by IIT Delhi graduate Baljit Singh, mTatva is a healthcare company that combines medical expertise with communications technology to ensure that patients have access to quality medical care at their fingertips. Baljit Singh, founder and CEO of mTatva, worked for eleven years in multiple big companies as well as start-ups in the IT area, technology and management and business roles. Then in January 2013 he quit his job and founded mTatva. The company got formally incorporated in April 2013.

mTatva’s HealthPIE helps hospitals save on costs, acquire patients and increase revenue. HealthPIE is a patient information and empowerment system that sends SMS reminders to patients about taking medicines, going for follow ups and also, decodes handwritten doctors prescriptions to digital copies.Once a patient has consulted a doctor, mTatva’s customised hardware takes 5-10 seconds to take a picture of the prescription. Post this, it is uploaded on the cloud, then it is decoded using HealthPIE. Once decoded, a final check is done manually by mTatva.HealthPIE then provides every patient registered with the system a unique ID and password to access medical records, appointments and other details on the cloud.

mTatva believes in Adherence.Awareness. Access. It serves 328,000+ patients everyday and has touched more than 1,019,000+ lives. This is a startup with a vision and it is sure to grow into something even better.