A museum of nine years of work · since 2019

Healthcare Profiling. The work behind the vision.

In 2019 a small team in India set out to build something that nobody had a name for yet — a complete healthcare picture of a region, made by going door to door, then connecting digital health to every gap the picture revealed. Government partners called it Healthcare Profiling. Over nine years it crossed states, surfaces, crises, and oceans. This page is what was built. Take your time.

9 yearssince 2019
2 countriesIndia · United States
3 statesTG · AP · TN
50,000+patients reached
400+care providers
13 projectsexhibits below
Part I · The Word

What is Healthcare Profiling?

A Healthcare Profile of a region is a complete, end-to-end picture of where care breaks for the people who live there — who they are, what they need, what's missing, and what fix will hold. Profiling is the act of building that picture, deliberately, at scale, household by household. It is the upstream method that every Vera vertical traces back to.

India · 2019

The act, when it had no name yet.

In 2019, Vera Smart Health partnered with state ministries in India to do work the ministries called Healthcare Profiling — door-to-door screening of citizens at population scale, because most of the population was uninsured and the gap was not a willingness gap but a delivery gap.

The team built it as a complete system: field operations walked the streets, IoT vitals captured the readings, the digital ecosystem (LIVIT / SharkDreams) held the records, and closures ran the consultation, prescription, referral, and follow-up. Same engine, anywhere it travelled.

The work was paid for by the government because the government was the one with the question to answer.

United States · 2026

The same act, in a different language.

In the United States, the question is not "what is the health of a district?" but "what is the health of a regional senior care market?" The unit changed; the method did not. Vera Healthcare USA now builds the Smart Health Profile of every region it touches — same field, same vitals, same digital ecosystem, same closures.

What's different is the funding: no government writes a check. The Profile is funded by the operator that hires Vera, and the closures ship as for-profit verticals — Dental Profiling Camps, Senior Community Operations, Regional Smart Health Studio, Community Acquisitions & Transformation.

The Profile is the asset. The verticals are how it ships. The method is what makes both possible.

How a Healthcare Profile is built · every time, everywhere

STEP · 01

Field

Door-to-door operations identify every household. Registration, intake, and a Health Card per resident.

STEP · 02

Vitals

IoT devices capture vitals — height, weight, BMI, BP, glucose, SpO2, vision — in under a minute.

STEP · 03

Ecosystem

Every record ports into one digital layer. Consultation, prescription, referral, and remote monitoring run from the same data.

STEP · 04

Closure

What the Profile reveals gets closed — primary care, dental, specialty referral, emergency response, follow-up, or operator handover.

Part II · The Practice

The national context Vera worked inside.

Healthcare Profiling is not Vera vocabulary. By 2026, India had built one of the largest population health-profiling efforts in the world — measured in crores (tens of millions): digital health IDs, school screening, household surveillance, telemedicine. Vera was a private operator delivering pieces of this work for state ministries in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh from 2019 to 2022. Here is the national frame.

Pillar 01 · Digital health infrastructure

Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM)

National digital health architecture — ABHA health IDs, longitudinal patient records, federated health registries (facilities + professionals). The data backbone for every other program below.
84.79 crore ABHA IDs · 82.69 crore records linked
3,63,520 facilities · 5,64,851 professionals
MoHFW · ABDM implementation update, 2025
Pillar 02 · Coverage at population scale

Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY

Government-funded health coverage of ₹5 lakh/family/year for the bottom 40% of households. Expanded October 2024 to all citizens aged 70+ regardless of income.
36.9 crore Ayushman cards issued
8.39 crore hospital admissions · ₹1.16 lakh crore in treatment
NHA · PM-JAY official figures
Pillar 03 · Child population screening

Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram (RBSK)

Door-to-door school child screening for the 4 Ds — Defects at birth, Diseases, Deficiencies, Development delays — across 30 conditions. The methodological cousin of Vera's Medchal work.
27 crore children targeted · ages 0–18
Government + government-aided schools nationwide
NHM · RBSK national program
Pillar 04 · Telemedicine at scale

e-Sanjeevani

India's free-to-use National Telemedicine Service — doctor-to-patient (OPD) plus Ayushman Arogya Mandirs (specialist routing). Operational across every state and UT.
31.86 crore teleconsultations · Dec 2024
All 28 states + 8 UTs
MoHFW · e-Sanjeevani milestone
Pillar 05 · Crisis-grade household profiling · COVID era

Andhra Pradesh five-round household survey · ICMR surveillance · Telangana digital health profiling

Andhra Pradesh was the only state in India to run five rounds of household COVID surveys, collecting health particulars of every family member — door-to-door, ASHA workers + ANM + village/ward volunteers. Telangana publicly announced citizen-wide digital health profiling under the same period. ICMR ran national laboratory surveillance at unprecedented scale.
AP · 5 household survey rounds · the only state
ICMR national: 176M individuals tested · 188M tests · Mar 2020 – Jan 2021
WHO India · ICMR · Telangana Today

Where Vera fit. Vera Smart Health was a private operator inside this national movement. Medchal government schools screened against a 38-condition checklist that is the direct cousin of RBSK's national child-screening methodology. Vera's Telangana COVID transport profiling sat inside the state's COVID command (Collector Markaz, hourly geo-tagging). Vera's AP COVID mobile profiling across districts and transit hubs was a private piece of the same household-survey infrastructure that made Andhra Pradesh the only state to run five rounds. The digital ecosystem Vera ran (LIVIT / SharkDreams) prefigured ABDM's longitudinal record. Vera delivered field operations and digital infrastructure inside one of the largest health-profiling efforts ever run by any government. The four US verticals on this site are the inheritance of that work, ported to a country where no national program exists at this scale — and no private operator carries this depth of practice.

Part III · The Ten Exhibits

Each project sharpened the vision.

Exhibit 01TelanganaUrban community Profile

Six Hyderabad communities, profiled door to door.

India · Telangana · Hyderabad city · Partner: Government of Telangana
Sits inside · Telangana state community health profiling · ABDM-era digital identity
The problem

Inner-city Hyderabad has dense, lower-income communities that fall outside the reach of routine primary care — no insurance, no walk-in budget, no time to travel. Clinical risk equal to anywhere; access not.

What Vera built

A Smart Health Profile across six city neighborhoods — Health Card registration, IoT vitals, doctor consultation, prescription, lifestyle plan, partner-hospital referral. Every resident profiled into the same ecosystem layer used across every other Vera project.

~ urban-scale
Patients screened · approximate
6 communities
Hyderabad city · profiled
Health Cards
Per registered patient
Govt. partner
Telangana
Primary care BP · glucose Vision Dental Skin Maternal · child Lifestyle counseling
What this taught the vision

That an urban-dense, underserved community could be profiled at the same depth as a rural village. The method was not bound to a setting — it was bound to a discipline. The Profile travels with the team.

Govt. of Telangana · Hyderabad city Profile
Hyderabad · 6 community pinsHover · click for detail
Exhibit 02TelanganaRural village Profile

Five villages on the city's edge. Same method, rural shape.

India · Telangana · Ghatkesar · Medchal–Malkajgiri district · Partner: Government of Telangana
Sits inside · Telangana rural health profiling · district outreach methodology
Govt. of Telangana · Ghatkesar mandal villages
Ghatkesar · 5 village pinsHover · click for detail
The problem

Villages around Ghatkesar — on the rural edge of metropolitan Hyderabad — fall between city healthcare reach and rural-mission coverage. Close enough to be overlooked, far enough to be unreachable for routine care.

What Vera built

A Smart Health Profile across five villages in Ghatkesar mandal — same door-to-door registration, IoT vitals, consultation, prescription, and referral as the urban Hyderabad work, fitted to the village context.

~ village-scale
Residents screened · approximate
5 villages
Ghatkesar mandal
Same method
Urban + rural · one Profile
Govt. partner
Telangana
Primary care Maternal · child Anaemia Vitamin def. Dental Skin Chronic risk
What this taught the vision

That the same Profile method could span urban density and rural distance in the same district. One method, two operating contexts — the foundation of how Vera would later scale across Florida counties.

Exhibit 03TelanganaGovernment Schools · 38-condition screen

The biggest single Profile. 56 schools. 4,824 students.

India · Telangana · Medchal–Malkajgiri district · Partner: Government of Telangana · School Education Department
Sits inside · Aarogya Telangana · the official state program · and · RBSK methodology (the national 4Ds school screening)
The problem

Government schools in Medchal–Malkajgiri serve children whose families typically can't access routine screening — vision, dental, growth, hearing, nutrition, mental health, adolescent health. Untreated conditions track into chronic adult burden. Schools are the one place every child reliably appears; the gap was a delivery model.

What Vera built

Vera ran the Smart Health Profile across the Medchal government school network — every student screened against a 38-condition checklist, profiled into the ecosystem, and referred via the appropriate channel (DH, PHC, CHC, DEIC, AFHC).

4,824
Students profiled
56 schools
MPPS · MPUPS · ZPHS
50.2% / 49.8%
Male / Female balance
Ages 2 – 20
Primary · upper · high school
421 flagged
8.7% with health concerns
38 conditions
Standard screening checklist

Top findings across the cohort

Dental 714 Skin 462 Vision 280 Mental ret. 150 Other dis. 105 Hearing 90 Learning 78 Pain · menstruation 61 Growing-up 47 Anaemia 39 Otitis media 39 Goiter 21 Speech delay 30 Convulsive 42
What this taught the vision

That a standardized 38-condition Profile could be delivered through a government system at the scale of an entire district school network. The Profile became the link between school infrastructure and downstream public-health referral. This is the moment the method earned the word scale.

📷 Aarogya Telangana · Medchal · 2019
Times of India / Times News Network article — 'Medchal students get digital health profiles' — Medchal first mandal in India · 4,832 students · 48 government schools · Aarogya Telangana programme · VERA group
Press · Times News Network, 2019. "Medchal has become the first mandal in India to have digital health profiles of school students" · pilot under Aarogya Telangana · VERA group named operating partner.
Public launch ceremony · large Health Card mock-up bearing the Government of Telangana seal and Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao's image · example student record V. Sai Kumar, ZPHS Gowdavelly
The launch. Public unveiling of the pilot Health Card · Govt of Telangana seal · sample student record (ZPHS Gowdavelly · one of the 56 schools).
Aarogya Telangana camp scene at Medchal · politicians and Vera team with a student receiving his health card
At the camp. Distribution day · students, district leadership, and the Vera team on-ground.
Five students from ZPHS Medchal holding their actual deployed Health Cards · V. Murali Krishna (ID MD-2718-0031) · Veshwar (ID MD-2718-0009) and others
Cards in hand. ZPHS Medchal (B) students holding their actual deployed Health Cards · V. Murali Krishna (MD-2718-0031) · Veshwar (MD-2718-0009).
Meeting with KT Rama Rao, Telangana Minister for IT and Industries, reviewing the Vera digital health profile records
Ministerial review. K. T. Rama Rao (then Telangana Minister · IT & Industries) reviewing the Vera digital health profile records.
Vera's clinical workforce — nurses and lab technicians — marshalled at the deployment site for door-to-door Aarogya Telangana profiling across Medchal
The deployment. Vera's clinical workforce — nurses and lab technicians — marshalled at the site for door-to-door Aarogya Telangana profiling across Medchal. The Profile didn't ship on software alone; it shipped on a trained ground team.
Govt. of Telangana · Aarogya Telangana · 56 schools
Medchal district · 56 school pinsHover · click for detail
Exhibit 04TelanganaPrimary care + cardiac focus

Nalgonda. A district where the water itself was a public-health risk.

India · Telangana · Nalgonda district · Partner: Government of Telangana
Sits inside · NPCDCS — National Programme for Prevention & Control of Cancer, Diabetes, CVD & Stroke · district outreach methodology
📷 From the field · Nalgonda · 2019
Vera Hospitals (Adhitya Care Hospitals) banner at the Nalgonda Smart Health Camp · Dr. Yadavelli Pruthvi Reddy consulting with mothers and children
At the camp. Dr. Yadavelli Pruthvi Reddy (MBBS, MD Pediatrics) consulting under the Vera Hospitals (Adhitya Care Hospitals) banner.
FREE SERVICES board at the Nalgonda camp — free general medicines, blood testing, ECG scan, ultrasound, blood pressure check-up
The board. Free services delivered on-camp · medicines · blood · ECG · ultrasound · BP.
Dharma with G. Kishan Reddy, Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, November 26, 2019
Nov 26, 2019. With G. Kishan Reddy, then Union Minister of State, Home Affairs (Govt. of India), MP Secunderabad.
Govt. of Telangana · Nalgonda district Profile
Nalgonda · district viewCardiac focus zone
The problem

Nalgonda is one of Telangana's largest districts by area, rural-majority, with endemic skeletal and dental fluorosis from groundwater, maternal and child health disparities, and primary care infrastructure spread thin across distance. Cardiac risk at population scale was structurally invisible in this setting.

What Vera built

Smart Health Camps in Nalgonda — primary care profiling at the village level, with a focused cardiac sub-deployment that captured cardiac risk indicators alongside general vitals. Patients profiled into the ecosystem, downstream cardiac and primary care referrals attached to the record.

~ district-scale
Residents screened · approximate
Cardiac focus
Specialized sub-deployment
Fluorosis zone
Skeletal · dental
Govt. partner
Telangana

Free services delivered on-camp

Free general medicines Free blood testing Free ECG scan Free ultrasound Free BP check Pediatric consult Cardiac risk Maternal · child Referral
What this taught the vision

That a Profile could carry a clinical focus — cardiac — without losing its general-screening function. The Profile became layered: a base of universal vitals, a domain-specific overlay where the geography demanded it. The same pattern Florida senior dental now uses.

Exhibit 05Andhra PradeshWhole village-cluster Profile

~30 villages, profiled as one. The Bhimavaram cluster.

India · Andhra Pradesh · West Godavari district · Partner: Government of Andhra Pradesh
Sits inside · AP rural health profiling · the same household-level methodology AP later scaled into its COVID 5-round surveys
The problem

The Bhimavaram region in West Godavari is a dense village cluster — Iragavaram, Tanuku, Relangi and roughly thirty surrounding villages — that depends on outreach for routine care. The brief was the most ambitious cluster shape Vera had run: profile the entire region, village by village, household by household, into one community health record.

What Vera built

A full-cluster Smart Health Profile across the Bhimavaram region — door-to-door registration, IoT vitals, doctor consultation, and the same ecosystem record used across the rest of Vera's work. The cluster's health record became the regional asset, not a Vera-owned dataset.

~30 villages
Bhimavaram cluster · profiled
Whole-cluster
Door-to-door coverage
~ cluster-scale
Households reached · approximate
Govt. partner
Andhra Pradesh

Villages profiled:

Iragavaram Tanuku Relangi Pekeru Rapaka Kakileru Goteru Inaparru Indra Nagar Ithampudi Kanteru Kavalipuram Narayanapuram Ogidi Surampudi Devimandiram Easteppur Mukkadwaram Podhalada + adjacent villages
What this taught the vision

That a Profile is not bound by a single boundary. A region can be a cluster — many villages, one record — and the operating layer holds. This is the conceptual ancestor of Vera's 44-county Florida rollout: many counties, one Profile, one fleet.

Govt. of Andhra Pradesh · Bhimavaram cluster
West Godavari · cluster viewIragavaram highlighted
ExhibitAndhra Pradesh · 2019Smart Village pilot · whole-village operating layer

Burrapalem. India's first end-to-end Smart Village.

India · Andhra Pradesh · Burrapalem (Bapatla district) · Partner: village community + cultural partner
Sits in spirit of · Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana · the national Smart Villages framing · "India's first self-sufficient Smart Village group"
📷 Superstar Mahesh Babu × Vera Healthcare · 2019
Official campaign image · Superstar Mahesh Babu and Vera Healthcare · A partnership that empowers villages · with the village ecosystem held in a hand · five connected services labelled · Mahesh Babu portrait · Vera logo top right
The partnership branding. Superstar Mahesh Babu and Vera Healthcare · "A partnership that empowers villages" · #SmartVillage #MaheshBabu #VeraHealthcare.
Vera Mahesh Babu campaign · puzzle-piece visual · empowering villages one step at a time with one big association
Campaign · puzzle. "Empowering villages one step at a time with one big association."
Aerial view of Burrapalem village group with measured deficits · 57% with no clean drinking water · 30% without access to electricity · 80% suffer from various health conditions
The baseline. Burrapalem village group · 57% no water · 30% no electricity · 80% with health conditions.
Smart Village architecture diagram · 15 connected services · virtual care · smart schooling · efficient roads · water and drain systems · smart emergency · electric vehicles · ambulance · smart hospital · infrastructure development · employment · weather prediction · decreased cost · solar power · smart agriculture · environment sanitation · India's first self-sufficient Smart Village group
The Smart Village architecture. 15 connected services around the Smart Health Profile · "India's first self-sufficient Smart Village group."
Village community + cultural partner · India's first Smart Village pilot
Burrapalem · Bapatla districtSmart Village pilot
The problem

Burrapalem, like thousands of Indian villages, sat in the gap that India's national infrastructure layers reach unevenly. The question Vera wanted to answer at village scale: could every household be profiled, every gap mapped, and a connected layer of water + power + schooling + ambulance + virtual care + emergency response delivered as one operating system?

What Vera built

A full-village Smart Health Profile across Burrapalem, then a connected Smart Village layer of fifteen services built around the Profile — virtual care, smart hospital services, ambulance, smart schooling, water & drain systems, electric vehicles, efficient roads, smart emergency services, solar power infrastructure, smart agriculture, environment sanitation, weather prediction, employment opportunities, decreased cost, and infrastructure development. The Smart Village pilot became the architectural ancestor of the Florida regional rollout: many services, one operating layer, one record.

15 services
Connected Smart Village layer
Whole village
End-to-end coverage
57% / 30% / 80%
Baseline deficits · water / power / health
First of kind
"India's first self-sufficient Smart Village group"

Services in the Smart Village layer

Smart Health Profile Virtual care Smart hospital Ambulance Smart schooling Water & drain Electric vehicles Efficient roads Smart emergency Solar power Smart agriculture Environment sanitation Weather prediction Employment Decreased cost Infrastructure dev.
What this taught the vision

That a Profile could carry an entire connected operating layer — not just healthcare, but the full set of services a community needs. The same architectural pattern Vera Healthcare USA now ships as four verticals under one Smart Health Profile umbrella. Burrapalem is the conceptual ancestor of everything Vera ships in the United States today.

ExhibitTelangana · 2019Sport youth · school + training-club Profile

Suchitra School + its badminton training club. With PV Sindhu.

India · Telangana · Medchal–Malkajgiri district (Suchitra area) · Partner: Suchitra School + on-site badminton training club
Adjacent to · Sport-youth + private-sector school health · the performance-overlay variant of the Profile method · same district as the RBSK government-school work
The problem

Sport youth carry a different health profile than the general population — injury patterns, growth and bone development under training load, nutrition deficits, sleep, mental load under competitive pressure, and the year-on-year tracking that's needed to keep a young athlete in the game. Most schools don't run that profile at all; most training clubs don't either. The few who try do it once, never twice.

What Vera built

A Smart Health Profile for the school's student body and the badminton training club — general vitals + a sport-overlay tracking injury history, growth/bone development, training load, nutrition, and sleep/mental indicators. Each student and trainee profiled into the ecosystem record, with periodicity built in for longitudinal tracking.

2019
First sport-overlay deployment
School + Club
Two populations · one Profile
Sport overlay
Injury · growth · nutrition · load · mental
National-profile partner
Olympic athlete vouched the work
Injury history Growth · bone Nutrition Training load Sleep Mental load General vitals Year-on-year
What this taught the vision

That the Profile method extends cleanly to a performance-tracking domain — same engine, sport overlay. And that the same district can host two different Profile deployments at once — a government RBSK screen across 56 schools, and a private school + training club with a sport overlay — running in parallel from the same Vera operating layer. That's the same logic Vera's US verticals run today: one method, multiple overlays, every region.

Suchitra School + on-site badminton training club · Medchal area · 2019
Medchal–Malkajgiri · Suchitra areaOlympic-medalist partner
InterludeTelangana · 2019Industry consultation · did not materialise

A conversation with Tollywood. The deployment that didn't ship.

India · Telangana · Hyderabad · Consulted: senior Telugu film industry leadership
Honest record · Consulted · did not materialise · still part of the journey
The problem on the table

The Telugu film industry employs tens of thousands of workers — lead and supporting actors, junior artistes, technical crews, light and grip, production support, post-production teams. Long hours, varied work environments, a wide age range, and very little workforce-level health visibility. The industry's senior-most leadership had been thinking about it; Vera came to the table with a working method.

What Vera proposed

A Smart Health Profile for the Telugu film industry workforce — the same engine running the Aarogya Telangana school deployment and the Nalgonda Smart Health Camp, fitted to a film-industry workforce overlay (cardiac risk, vision and hearing, occupational injury, mental load). One method, industry overlay.

What this taught the vision

That the Profile method drew serious conversations at the senior-most non-government industry levels. The discipline was being recognised outside the state-program channel. The room was real; the deployment timing did not work out — a piece of every honest 9-year record. Worth keeping in the museum.

📷 The conversation · Hyderabad · 2019
Vera consultation with Telugu film industry leadership at a Hyderabad conference table · Nagarjuna Akkineni (center, black shirt) · Chiranjeevi (right, white shirt with red collar) · industry seniors
At the table. Nagarjuna Akkineni (center, black shirt) and Chiranjeevi (right, white with red collar) with senior industry colleagues.
Wider angle of the Tollywood consultation conference room · framed portrait of NTR (N. T. Rama Rao) on the wall · full senior industry roster around the table
The room. Wider angle of the meeting · framed portrait of NTR (N. T. Rama Rao) on the wall · full senior industry roster around the table.
Exhibit 06Tamil NaduMass-gathering pilgrim care

Velankanni. Millions of pilgrims. One on-site Profile.

India · Tamil Nadu · Nagapattinam · Partner: Velankanni Basilica · pilgrimage operations
Adjacent to · Mass-gathering health · the surge-throughput practice India runs at Kumbh, Ayyappa, Velankanni festivals
Velankanni Basilica · pilgrim Profile
Velankanni · Tamil NaduCoastal pilgrimage site
The problem

Velankanni Basilica draws millions of pilgrims annually, peaking around the September feast. Pilgrim health risks include heat and dehydration, untreated chronic conditions in older pilgrims, foot and joint strain from long walks, food-borne illness, and pediatric distress. No standing healthcare layer exists at the temple-town scale these events demand.

What Vera built

A Smart Health Profile setup at the church during peak periods — on-site triage, vital tracking, immediate primary care, referral to local hospitals where needed. Every pilgrim seen profiled into the ecosystem record for continuity.

Mass-gathering
Festival-scale health delivery
On-site care
Triage · primary · referral
~ peak-event scale
Pilgrims profiled · approximate
Basilica
Pilgrimage operations partner
Heat · dehydration Cardiac risk Foot · joint Food-borne Pediatric distress Chronic care Triage · referral
What this taught the vision

That a Profile could be run at event velocity — peak demand, surge throughput, triage discipline. The same speed Vera now needs for dental camp days: pre-screen, exam, treatment, all in 48 hours, on-site.

Exhibit 07Telangana · COVID eraEssential-worker workforce Profile

2020. India's first automated COVID-19 monitoring system. Vera built it for Telangana.

India · Telangana · statewide · Partner: Government of Telangana · Chief Minister's Office · TSRTC · GHMC · Collector Markaz
Sits inside · Telangana state COVID command · ICMR national surveillance · listed in Analytics India Magazine's Top 10 AI Collaborations Between Indian Govt. & Tech Giants in 2020 · alongside Google × Govt of India
The problem

During COVID, state transport workers — bus drivers, conductors, mechanics, terminal staff — were classified essential. They could not stop working. They had the highest face-to-face public contact of any state-employee category. The state needed continuous health-status profiling across the entire workforce, fast enough to act on, durable enough to track across waves.

What Vera built

A complete COVID monitoring system, end to end. The app — Vera Traveller Tracking System — handled identity, photo capture, GPS check-in, status flag, and a real-time data layer feeding the state's Collector Markaz command center and the Chief Minister's Office. The ground operation — Vera-branded staff in PPE and face-shields, coordinated with GHMC (Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation) — ran intake at transit hubs (bus stations, railway points, returning-migrant gateways) where workers, families, and children were arriving in mid-pandemic. The reporting — hourly progress to Collector Markaz, district surveillance, transport-workforce status — all from one Vera engine.

India's first
Automated COVID monitoring system app for a state govt
Live → CMO
Real-time data to Chief Minister's Office
Top 10 · 2020
Analytics India Mag · Govt × Tech collaborations
Statewide
Transport workforce + transit hubs + districts
GHMC + TSRTC
Co-deployed ground operation
Crisis-grade
Hourly Collector Markaz reporting

What the stack covered

Vera Traveller Tracking System (app) Identity + photo capture GPS check-in Symptom intake Exposure tracking Status flag Live CMO data feed Collector Markaz reporting PPE + face-shield field staff Transit hub intake Returning migrants Transport workforce GHMC + TSRTC coordination
What this taught the vision

That the Profile method held under the most extreme operating pressure a state had ever asked for. The discipline survived a crisis. National press credited Vera by name on the front page. A national-tech-media ranking put Vera in the same row as Google × Government of India. If it can do real-time to the Chief Minister's Office under COVID, it can do anything regional senior care in the United States will ever throw at it.

📷 Vera Traveller Tracking System × Govt of Telangana · 2020
ABP Live national news article · Coronavirus India: Telangana Deploys India's First Automated COVID-19 Monitoring System App · The app devised by Vera Smart Healthcare is helping officials and even the Chief Ministers Office to keep track of the situation on a real time basis · IANS · 06 Apr 2020
National press · ABP Live · 6 April 2020. "Telangana Deploys India's First Automated COVID-19 Monitoring System App" · app devised by Vera Smart Healthcare · real-time data feed to the Chief Minister's Office.
Vera Traveller Tracking System app on phone · Govt of Telangana seal · check-in location · photo capture · Powered by Vera
The app. Vera Traveller Tracking System · Govt of Telangana seal · location check-in · photo capture · Powered by Vera.
Analytics India Magazine article header · Top 10 AI Collaborations Between Indian Government & Tech Giants in 2020 · Sundar Pichai · PM Modi · Digital India Power To Empower
Top 10 · 2020. Analytics India Magazine's national list of Govt × Tech collaborations · Vera in the line-up with Google × Govt of India.
Large crowd of healthcare workers, GHMC staff and Vera personnel at a coordination briefing for COVID transit hub deployment · masked · holding intake forms
The briefing. Workforce + GHMC + Vera staff at a deployment-day coordination meeting · intake forms in hand · early COVID 2020.
Vera-branded staff in white PPE T-shirts and face shields processing returning migrants at a transit hub · Vera logo visible on shirts
Vera on the ground. Vera-branded staff in PPE + face shields processing returning travellers at a transit hub.
Returning passengers in masks queued at transit hub processing point · Vera intake staff scanning · social distance markings on floor
Transit hub intake. Returning passengers scanned and registered through the Vera Traveller Tracking System.
Migrant worker carrying luggage on head and a small child in arm at the Vera processing point · pandemic-era return migration
Who came through. A returning migrant worker with his child at a Vera processing point · the population the system was built for.
Govt. of Telangana · TSRTC · GHMC · Collector Markaz · CMO
Telangana · statewideHyderabad central
Exhibit 08Andhra Pradesh · COVID eraState-contracted mobile profiling

iMASQ. Intelligent Monitoring Analysis Services Quarantine. Two states. 170 buses. 9,700 staff.

India · Andhra Pradesh + Telangana · Partner: Government of Andhra Pradesh · Government of Telangana · multiple District Collectors
Sits inside · AP five-round household survey · Telangana state COVID command · widely covered in national press (India Today · Business Insider · Economic Times · Hans India · Telangana Today · BioSpectrum · BW Healthcare · UNI India · ANI · Analytics Insight)
📷 iMASQ · Vera Smart Healthcare · AP + Telangana · 2020
Hans India · Lab on wheels brings Covid-19 testing facility to your doorstep · full article quoting Dharma Teja Nukarapu, Founder-CEO Vera Smart Healthcare · 170 buses · 6 lakh samples · 500 samples per hour · plans for Tamil Nadu and Odisha
National press · Hans India. "Lab on wheels brings Covid-19 testing facility to your doorstep" · full article quoting Dharma Teja Nukarapu, Founder-CEO Vera Smart Healthcare · 170 buses · 6 lakh samples · 500/hour · talks with TN and OD.
Hans India newspaper headline · AP government deployed 102 IMASQ buses, recruiting 9,700 health care staff to fight Covid-19 · 17 July 2020
The headline. Hans India · "AP government deployed 102 IMASQ buses, recruiting 9,700 healthcare staff" · 17 Jul 2020.
Inauguration of COVID-19 iMASQ bus at Siddipet by T. Harish Rao, Telangana Minister, with green flag · banner Telangana State Government District Medical and Health Department Siddipet · 14 August 2020
The Siddipet launch · 14 Aug 2020. T. Harish Rao (then Telangana Minister · MLA Siddipet) flagging off the iMASQ at the Siddipet District Medical & Health office.
Full side view of iMASQ COVID-19 Test Unit bus · SAMPLE COLLECTION wing in white · QUARANTINE wing in red · COVID-19 iMASQ red logo · clean infrastructure design
The bus. A single iMASQ unit · SAMPLE COLLECTION (white) · QUARANTINE (red) · in-bus VTM packaging · isolation berth · 10 collection counters.
Fleet of iMASQ buses lined up with social-distanced queue of citizens · INTELLIGENT MONITORING ANALYSIS SERVICES · Govt of AP seal · QUARANTINE wing · orderly queue marked on ground
Scale + discipline. Multi-bus deployment + social-distanced queue · Govt of AP seal · "Migrants and travellers in an orderly queue for imminent swab collection."
Citizen having nasal swab at Counter-1 of iMASQ bus · gloved hand reaching through the window with swab stick · Govt of Telangana seal visible · COVID-19 iMASQ red branding
One sample. Counter-1 swab through the iMASQ bus window · Govt of Telangana seal · the work in motion.
In-built Viral Transport Medium VTM packaging unit inside iMASQ bus · staff in green scrubs and PPE blue gown at sample-preparation desk · Vera branding
In-built VTM packaging. Each iMASQ bus runs a Viral Transport Medium packaging unit on-board · scrubs + PPE staff prepping samples for lab handover.
Asaduddin Owaisi, AIMIM President and Member of Parliament for Hyderabad, taking COVID nasal swab at iMASQ bus Counter-2 · INTELLIGENT MONITORING ANALYSIS SERVICES branding · Vera and iMASQ logos · welcoming banner
Political endorsement, broadcast. Asaduddin Owaisi (AIMIM President · MP Hyderabad) taking his swab publicly at iMASQ Counter-2 · national-feed coverage.
Inside an iMASQ bus during active sample collection · people queued at counters · staff in PPE · clear plastic isolation curtains visible · Govt seals and Vera branding inside
Inside in operation. People at the in-bus counters · PPE staff · clear isolation curtaining · the operating reality.
Dharma being interviewed by the India Today Group inside the iMASQ bus during operation · TV camera and reporter visible · service-icon screens on walls
India Today Group · inside. Vera founder interviewed inside an iMASQ bus during operation.
Dharma being interviewed by Aaj Tak / India Today outside the iMASQ bus · India Today microphone with red mic flag clearly visible · Vera iMASQ logo, COVID iMASQ red fist logo, and INTELLIGENT MONITORING branding all in frame · 108 Emergency Medical sticker on bus
India Today / Aaj Tak · outside. Interview against the Vera iMASQ bus with branding fully in frame · India Today microphone visible.
Close-up of Dharma in mask being interviewed by Aaj Tak / India Today · Aaj Tak Hindi-language microphone flag clearly visible with red आज तक branding · COVID iMASQ fist logo on the bus behind
Aaj Tak microphone. Close-up of the interview · Aaj Tak (the #1 Hindi news channel in India) mic flag · the Hindi-national audience tier.
Crowd of travellers with luggage at Visakhapatnam Airport arrivals canopy at dusk · APSRTC bus and Vera Tempo Travellers + iMASQ buses lined up to process passengers
Visakhapatnam Airport arrivals. Returning travellers processed through iMASQ + Vera Tempo Travellers at the AP airport canopy.
iMASQ blue bus deployed in heavy rain at outdoor site · people queued with umbrellas in red mud · Vera and COVID-19 iMASQ branding visible · crisis-grade deployment
Operating through anything. iMASQ deployment in heavy rain · umbrellas + red mud · the discipline didn't pause for weather.
Arogya Andhra infographic showing total COVID tests done · 30,19,296 tests · 56,541 tests per million · progression 1 February to 19 August 2020 over 170 days
State scale · context. Arogya Andhra · 30,19,296 total tests by 19 Aug 2020 over 170 days · iMASQ contributed 6 lakh samples (≈40% of AP's first 15 lakh).
Vera iMASQ Tempo Traveller mini-bus fleet lined up in a parking area · INTELLIGENT MONITORING ANALYSIS SERVICES QUARANTINE branding · COVID-19 iMASQ red logo
The smaller fleet. iMASQ Tempo Traveller mini-units complementing the full buses · last-mile reach into mandals and rural pockets.
Economic Times Instagram post on Andhra Pradesh covid case load · centred image of yellow PPE worker sanitising Vera iMASQ bus · INTELLIGENT MONITORING ANALYSIS Vera logos visible · national social media coverage
Economic Times. The Vera-iMASQ sanitisation image at the centre of national COVID coverage · 1,365 likes on the day · #healthcare.
Govt. of AP + Govt. of Telangana · iMASQ · 170 buses
AP · 10 of 13 districts · TG · GHMCStars · transit hubs
The problem

COVID made fixed facilities unsafe and unreachable. Districts across Andhra Pradesh needed mobile profiling that came to populations who couldn't travel. Transit hubs — railway stations, airports, bus stands — concentrated exposure risk and needed dedicated permitted deployment.

What Vera built

A two-state mobile COVID profiling fleet — full-sized iMASQ buses plus smaller iMASQ Tempo Traveller units — deployed across 10 of AP's 13 districts and across Telangana's GHMC limits and surrounding mandals. Inside each unit: 10 sample-collection counter windows, an in-built Viral Transport Medium (VTM) packaging unit, an isolation berth with ventilator readiness, and a Vera-built data layer feeding govt surveillance. Outside each unit: yellow-PPE sanitization protocols between samples, social-distanced floor markings, and ramps for ambulant + standing-counter sampling.

170 buses
102 in AP · scaling to 100 in Telangana
9,700 staff
AP healthcare recruitment for iMASQ
12 / bus
2 doctors · 2 nurses · 2 pharmacists · 4 ASHA-ANM · 2 lab techs
6 lakh samples
AP only · 40% of state total
500 / hour
Per-bus collection rate
10 of 13
AP districts covered
3 km · 10,000 houses
Per bus · per day · max
2,500 employees
Vera Smart Healthcare · peak

Deployment surfaces

Vijayawada Railway Station Vijayawada Airport Visakhapatnam Airport Tirupati Railway · Airport Renigunta Railway Srikakulam district Krishna district Anantapur · Chittoor · Nellore Siddipet Charminar · Kukatpally Yousufguda · Malakpet · Asifnagar Dilsukhnagar · Secunderabad Rural mandals + villages Police personnel Quarantine berth + ventilator VTM packaging in-bus

Announced expansion · 10 states

Andhra Pradesh Telangana Maharashtra Chhattisgarh Odisha Tamil Nadu Karnataka
What this taught the vision

That the Profile method could ship as a branded, industrial-scale fleet — 170 buses, ~10,000 staff, two states, AI-instrumented, government-coordinated, third-party-press-validated — and still hold the operating discipline at hourly grain. iMASQ is the most direct ancestor of Vera Regional Smart Health Studio: the same engineering, the same fleet-economics thinking, the same in-house-build muscle, ported from crisis healthcare in India to regional senior care in the United States. The Studio's pitch — "built at cost, built for the regional rollout" — is the iMASQ promise re-targeted at a US buyer.

ExhibitTelangana · 2021b.SOZO Critical Care fleet · isolation wards on wheels

A fleet of mobile ICUs. b.SOZO × Vera × The Lord's Church.

India · Telangana · Hyderabad · Partners: The Lord's Church · b.SOZO Critical Care · Vera Healthcare
Sits inside · COVID surge treatment response · mobile critical-care delivered at community scale · launched with state-Ministerial attendance
The problem

By the 2021 wave, Hyderabad hospitals were under load that fixed infrastructure couldn't absorb fast enough. The community needed functional critical-care capacity that could go to the affected population — with isolation, monitoring, oxygen, and clinical staff — built fast enough to actually relieve the surge.

What Vera built

A multi-bus fleet of branded b.SOZO Critical Care 24×7 mobile ICUs, in partnership with The Lord's Church. Each bus was fitted as an isolation ward — hospital beds, oxygen, IV stands, vitals monitors, virtual-care connection back to clinical command. Patients were admitted, monitored, oxygenated, and managed inside the buses; the buses parked at deployment sites and ran as ground-floor ICUs.

b.SOZO Critical Care 24×7
The fleet brand · Vera-built
Multi-bus fleet
Mobile ICU coaches at scale
Isolation ward
Beds · oxygen · IV · vitals monitors
Lord's Church
Community partner
KTR at launch
State Ministerial inauguration
Virtual care
Clinical command + remote support

Clinical capability inside each bus

Isolation ward Hospital beds Oxygen (nasal cannula) IV infusion ECG · vitals monitors Nursing care Doctor consultation Virtual care link Sample collection
What this taught the vision

That the Profile method could shift gear from surveillance to full ICU-grade treatment delivery when the crisis demanded — and that Vera could build and ship a fleet of mobile clinical units fast, branded, and under state-Ministerial witness. This is the operating muscle Vera Regional Smart Health Studio now ports to the United States for regional rollout buyers. The Studio's pitch — "built at cost, built for the regional rollout" — was first proven inside isolation wards on Hyderabad roads.

📷 b.SOZO × Vera × The Lord's Church · 2021
Fleet of b.SOZO Critical Care 24x7 buses lined up at the Hyderabad launch · marigold garlands · Vera logo on the side · multiple identical coaches converted to mobile ICUs
The fleet at launch. Multiple b.SOZO Critical Care coaches lined up · marigold inauguration garlands · Vera mark on the flanks · "CRITICAL CARE 24×7" on the front.
b.SOZO Lord's Church launch ceremony group photo · K. T. Rama Rao (KTR), Telangana Minister, with senior pastor and community leaders all masked
The launch. KTR (Telangana Minister) with senior pastor and community leaders at the b.SOZO Critical Care inauguration · The Lord's Church.
Side view of a b.SOZO Critical Care 24x7 mobile ICU coach with Vera logo and Lord's Church branding parked at deployment site
A single coach. b.SOZO Critical Care 24×7 · Vera + Lord's Church branding · service icons along the front.
Inside the b.SOZO Critical Care bus before deployment · rows of hospital beds with IV stands and Vera logo visible on the wall · virtual care label
Inside · ready for deployment. Hospital-grade beds with IV stands · Vera Virtual Care wall sign.
Two COVID patients in the b.SOZO Critical Care bus isolation ward · live ECG/vitals monitors showing real-time readings · Vera logo on the wall
In operation · isolation ward. Two COVID patients on monitored beds · live ECG/vitals · "ISOLATION WARD" signage · Vera mark on the wall.
Patient on oxygen via nasal cannula inside the b.SOZO isolation ward · multiple additional patients visible on monitored beds in the background
Care in motion. Patient on nasal-cannula oxygen with live vitals monitoring · additional patients on monitored beds in the background · this is what the fleet did, not what it looked like.
The Lord's Church + b.SOZO + Vera · 2021 COVID critical-care fleet
Hyderabad · The Lord's Church deployment2021 surge
Exhibit 09All-IndiaInsurance underwriting Profile

The Profile method becomes an underwriting input. Multi-state samples for an insurer.

India · multi-state · Partner: Private insurance carriers
Adjacent to · IRDAI / private underwriting market · the demand-side use case for the Profile method outside government
The problem

Insurance penetration in India sits well below most peer economies, particularly in non-metro and rural areas. Insurers can't price products for populations they can't profile — and traditional underwriting depth doesn't exist where most of the population lives. The gap was structural: no scalable Profile, no scalable product.

What Vera built

Sample Smart Insurance Profiles per state — a representative-population profiling exercise that built the data layer insurers needed to model risk and price products for the populations they were missing. The Profile method, sized as an underwriting input.

National scope
Multi-state sampling
New domain
Profile → insurance risk
Private partner
Insurance carriers
~ sample-scale
Per-state records · approximate
Underwriting Risk profiling Population sampling Demographic Chronic risk Behavioural
What this taught the vision

That the Profile method crosses public and private boundaries cleanly — same data discipline, different buyer. The for-profit operating contract model that Vera Healthcare USA now runs grew directly from this lesson.

Private insurance carriers · all-India samples
India · sample statesUnderwriting input
2022 · A quiet door closes

The crisis ended. And so did India's appetite for new health profiling.

By 2022, India had returned to its pre-pandemic rhythm. Vera tried to pivot the Profile method into COVID-specific work, then back out as the crisis normalized. But the government's health budget had been spent — twice over — on the COVID response, and the appetite for new population-scale profiling programs had quietly closed.

The discipline survived. The vision survived. The room to run it in India had narrowed to almost nothing.

The vision had to find new soil →
Exhibit 10USA · FloridaSenior dental Profile · for-profit operating

And then it crossed the ocean. Florida senior communities, profiled at the door.

United States · Florida districts · Partner: Vera Healthcare Florida LLC · senior community owners
Crosses · The vision crosses the ocean. No US national program at this scale exists — the operator becomes the program
USA · For-profit operating · Vera Healthcare Florida LLC
Florida · 44 counties modelledStudio · stations
The problem

Original Medicare doesn't cover routine dental. Medicare Advantage caps dental at $1K–$2K — used up before any real treatment. Residents of senior communities in Florida — mean age ~84 — face mobility barriers most clinics can't serve. Florida has 3,010 assisted-living facilities; 911 are camp-viable at 48+ beds.

What Vera built

Vera Dental Profiling Camps — a fully-equipped mobile dental operatory parked at the community for a two-day camp. Day 1: dentist, face-sheet pre-screen, on-site exam, consultation. Day 2: hygienist, cleanings for residents flagged from Day 1. Insurance billed direct under Vera Healthcare Florida LLC. Zero facility fees, zero per-resident charges.

12
FL senior communities · 2024
207
Residents seen · 2024
44 counties
Rollout model · built and priced
~70 units
Fleet at full state deployment
$25.16M
Gross · full state
$4.75M
Net before insurance
Dental screening Face-sheet pre-screen On-site exam Cleanings Cavities Periodontal Referral to dentist
What this taught the vision

That nine years of work in India was the same vision arriving in the United States — same method, different funding, different population, different vertical. The Profile is universal. The verticals are how it ships locally. The vision arrived.

Part IV · The Inheritance

How nine years made Vera uniquely eligible.

What the work compounded into

Six things no US-only operator can match without doing the nine years over.

Most US regional healthcare companies have run one vertical at one scale. Vera spent nine years running ten different shapes across three states and two countries. The output isn't a list of projects — it's a stack of operating capabilities most competitors can't assemble from a standing start.

CAPABILITY · 01

Cross-domain depth

Dental, primary care, school health, mental health, cardiac, COVID response, insurance underwriting. Most US healthcare operators specialize. Vera arrived with seven domains already run end-to-end.

CAPABILITY · 02

Multi-scale operating muscle

Five-village mandals. Thirty-village clusters. Fifty-six-school networks. State-wide workforce. Multi-district COVID. The Profile method has been delivered at every population scale that matters for a US regional contract.

CAPABILITY · 03

Government partnership grade

State ministries in two of India's largest states paid Vera to run population-scale work. The procurement discipline, reporting discipline, and command-coordination experience translate directly to US state programs and county contracts.

CAPABILITY · 04

Crisis-grade ops

Hourly reporting through COVID waves, district surveillance, geo-tagging at command-center grade. Vera's operating layer has already done what most US health-tech startups have never had to test.

CAPABILITY · 05

Field + digital, not either

The Profile method has never been a software product or a feet-on-ground service alone. The IoT vitals, the digital ecosystem, and the door-to-door teams ship as one engine. US competitors typically own one half; Vera built the integration first.

CAPABILITY · 06

Mobile + fixed + virtual + home

Every delivery mode has been tested at scale — mobile fleets in AP, fixed deployments in Hyderabad, virtual clinics, remote monitoring, home medication delivery, on-site at the Velankanni Basilica. The Florida camp is the latest, not the first.

This is why Healthcare Profiling is not a marketing word for Vera. It is a nine-year operational practice that arrived in the United States already capable. The four verticals on verahealthcareusa.com are the natural inheritance of the work above.

Part V · Today

What you can contract.

The four verticals.

Each one is the Smart Health Profile method applied to a specific US healthcare gap. They ship for-profit, on operator contracts, in any combination per regional engagement.

Start a regional conversation

Tell us your region. We'll send what we'd build.

Send the geography and the gap you're trying to close. Vera will return a Profile sketch — communities, counties, deployment scope, and the operating menu we'd contract for. The same diagnostic Vera runs internally before any vertical goes live.

Email contact@verahealthcareusa.com →