INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Health insurance startup Alan has launched a new product called Alan Map in France
It’s a dead simple way to find GPs, dentists, ophthalmologists and more around you.You first type your address and the name of a doctor or
the type of doctors you’re looking for
There’s a big map front and center with dots representing doctors around you.If you click on a dot or a name in the right column, you can
learn more about this doctor
Alan Map currently lists the name, address, phone number, opening hours and average price
You can also find out if you can see this doctor without booking an appointment, and if they accept national healthcare cards.This is
already so much better than searching through a directory
But Alan doesn’t plan to stop there
The company will soon launch an integration with MonDocteur so that you can book an appointment from Alan Map directly
MonDocteur is one of the leading healthcare scheduling services in France with Doctolib.But compared to Doctolib and MonDocteur, Alan Map
doesn’t stop at doctors that use their own scheduling systems
Alan has partnered with the official health directory from France’s national healthcare system
You’ll find over 245,000 health professionals on Alan Map, with pricing information for nearly half of them.The main advantage compared to
Ameli.fr is that it looks much better and it’s much easier to find what you’re looking for
Design can be important, even for health products
It can be the main difference between an obscure directory on an official website and a useful map.Eventually, Alan plans to add more data
For instance, as Alan is a health insurance startup, the company knows how much users are paying when they visit a specific doctor
You could anonymize and leverage this data to get exact pricing information.Alan Map is a free product
It’s a good way to promote the company’s health insurance product and get inbound traffic
For instance, it should give an SEO boost and you might see Alan in your Google search results.As for Alan users, they can find a doctor and
know how much they’ll get back from the national healthcare system and from Alan
This way, there’s no surprise when you get reimbursed.
