In a bid to take its smart its smart wearables and ecosystem of offerings to varied countries, Healthcare platform GOQii is planning to expand its operations to international markets like the UK, Japan and Southeast Asian countries by the end of the year. The company, which has launched two new devices featuring temperature monitor and integrated pulse oximeter in the past few weeks, said it has seen a massive jump in sales amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

It is said that the company has plans to go outside of India, and they are talking and looking at Southeast Asia, UK and Japan. "Our key goal was to focus on India, International markets, we are hoping (to enter by) end of the year because we are waiting for the lockdowns and travel restrictions to get over," says Vishal Gondal, CEO, GOQii.

He added that COVID-19 is bringing in a long-term change in behaviour and people are now keen on monitoring their vital statistics on their own. "We will work with partners. One of our partners, Mitsui is also an investor in GOQii and they already own a lot of healthcare assets across the world. We are working very closely with them," he said.

The company is said to make its revenues from the engagement on the platform, through coaching, on health store. "Our bigger play is how you engage (with the ecosystem)," he adds.

In the coming times, GOQii will also launch a specialised application and dashboard to enable remote monitoring for COVID Care Centres and home quarantine solutions for housing societies.

Previously, GOQii has partnered with German health tech startup Thryve to conduct a clinical study for the early detection of COVID-19 infections based on data collected by its wearables.

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