Bhubaneswar, June 25: Two Odia boys have conceptualised an innovative idea to change the health care system of the country.

Both Pratap Behera and Sumant Meher are alumni of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Lucknow, and they have come up with a mobile app called 'Medioctor' that will help users to consult doctors with ease.

Pratap and Sumant have created the app that will use content on health both for preventive and reactive consultations. The duo did their research during the last two years. Through the app, users can set appointments with doctors without physically going there and also get test results and medicines at their doorstep.

Just like booking movie tickets, a user sitting in Bhubaneswar can find out what suitable dates and times of appointments are available to consult a doctor anywhere in India.

"The app will need every user to give a detailed health record which will be saved online. Android, IoS and Windows phones and gadgets can pull data from the database. We have also made a pool of doctors from all over the country along with the facility to write feedback about them by our users. It will help the new users decide which doctor to visit," said Pratap.

The first consultation would need the user to physically visit the doctor while the subsequent follow-ups can be done online since an online case file will be opened and the concerned doctor can refer to it and advise the patient further until another physical visit is needed.

"We have contacted major hospitals, medical facilities, doctors and related stake holders across India and even in the USA," said Sumant.

For any prescribed tests and medicines too, the user will find a list of options that he or she can visit in his city. Even blood or any other samples will be collected by the concerned pathologists and results will be delivered to the user.

There is special software used by Medioctor where the prescriptions cannot be tampered and hence the user can get chemists deliver medicines.

"Our app will also give the user apt content on general fitness created by certified experts," said Pratap.

The app is all set to run in a couple of months.

"We will have a network of over 300 employees in the country with Bhubaneswar as our headquarters," said Sumant.

"Medioctor is a great initiative that will help people to recover from illness quickly with minimum expenses and maintain a healthy lifestyle," said Pradipta R. Sahoo, a Bhubaneswar-based ENT physician.

The product was designed by Subbu Iyer, who has been working in the technology sector since the last 28 years.