Digital healthcare group WhiteCoat opens regional headquarters in Singapore

SINGAPORE: Digital healthcare group WhiteCoat opened its regional headquarters in Singapore on Wednesday (Feb 1).

Situated within the one-north space, the 8,000 sq ft WhiteCoat Regional Headquarters will “function a hub to facilitate affected person engagement and promote healthcare literacy throughout its markets”, the group mentioned in a media launch.

WhiteCoat’s new regional residence may also “drive the group’s strategic course for profitability, growth and product and expertise improvement”, it added.

The transfer comes as WhiteCoat, which started operations in late 2018 and not too long ago launched companies in Indonesia and Vietnam, seems to enter further markets within the area.

WhiteCoat founder and CEO Bryan Koh mentioned the group aspires to convey its “made-in-Singapore model to the area”, with customers receiving “the identical premium stage of healthcare entry no matter the place they’re in Southeast Asia”.

“WhiteCoat would be the area’s healthcare passport the place customers, armed with our app, will be capable of see a physician and entry myriad high quality healthcare companies anytime, anyplace,” mentioned Mr Koh, including that the group is aware that it mustn’t search “growth-at-all-cost” growth.

“We’re in a powerful place to develop into the primary digital healthcare supplier headquartered in Singapore to succeed in profitability by natural development and can proceed to contribute meaningfully to our evolving healthcare panorama by digital innovation,” he mentioned.

In 2022, WhiteCoat accomplished greater than 400,000 consultations and drugs deliveries.

It at present operates in Singapore, Indonesia and Vietnam; and works with a community of greater than 1,000 well being and wellness suppliers comprising common practitioners, specialists, allied healthcare professionals and pharmacies to offer digital well being companies to greater than 1.5 million individuals within the area.

The group is seeking to broaden additional into new markets within the area, resembling Malaysia and Thailand, and might be enhancing its choices by offering specialist care and psychological wellness companies.

It is going to additionally search native and regional partnerships with payers resembling insurers and corporations, in addition to healthcare suppliers, to “proceed to spur digital transformation within the healthcare sector”, the group mentioned.