On a crowded film set in Delhi, filmmaker Shankh Chadha moves from one shot to another, his day stretching far beyond schedule. Somewhere between the lights, cables, and constant calls, his phone vibrates.
It isn’t a meeting alert.
It isn’t work.
It’s a reminder asking a simple question: Have you taken your insulin?

Shankh has lived with Type 1 diabetes for years. “Earlier, when I used to go on my shoots, I used to forget my insulin doses,” he says. Like many professionals juggling unpredictable days, he tried using phone alarms. But those reminders were easily dismissed.
“I used to put reminders for meetings and everything, so I would just clear all notifications. My medication reminder would also go away like that.”

Today, that no longer happens. His medication schedule is structured, persistent, and specific. “My medication is always on track now,” he says. “And because of that, I am much healthier.”

This quiet intervention — a reminder that refuses to be lost in the noise — lies at the heart of MyDigiRecords (MDR), a personal health companion app founded in 2022. After two years of research and development, MDR officially launched its comprehensive healthcare app in August 2023, before going to market in April this year.

India’s healthcare conversations often revolve around infrastructure: hospitals, doctors, and equipment. However, for Dr Saroj Gupta, founder and CEO of MyDigiRecords, who has spent decades practising healthcare in both India and the United States, it is the fragmented information.

What stood out to her wasn’t a lack of hospitals or doctors, but the fragile way patients carried their own medical histories.

“India is still very much in the paper system,” she says. “Doctors write a prescription, give it to the patient, and then anything can happen. A prescription can get lost, tea can spill on it — everyday things.”

The consequences, she explains, go far beyond inconvenience. “People don’t remember what medications they are taking. They will say pink, white, or blue tablet. There are so many pink tablets — how do you identify what medication it is?”

As populations grow and doctors’ time shrinks,........

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