The familiar WhatsApp cycle
A prescription arrives in a chat. Then a report, a medicine-strip photo, and a short message saying everything is okay. Later, the family has to reconstruct what changed.
About the founders
Built from a problemwe lived with for years.
For more than 15 years, Sunil and Sowmya lived away from their parents. Like millions of families separated by work, education, and distance, one question stayed in the background: are our parents really doing okay?
The question behind NivaCare
Are our parents really doing okay?
A phone call tells you how they sound. A video call helps you see them. But understanding what is actually happening with their health is much harder.
Calls
WhatsApp messages
Reports
Medicine photos
The real problem
Family care was happening everywhere, but the story was nowhere.
Important details get scattered
Reports disappear inside messages, doctor instructions are forgotten, symptoms mentioned casually are not recorded, and nobody has one clear health story.
The problem was not lack of care
There was always plenty of care. The problem was that the information needed to care for parents was spread across calls, chats, photos, and memory.
What we wanted
Not another complicated hospital portal.
Sunil and Sowmya wanted something their own parents could actually use. Parents should not have to organise folders, type long forms, or learn a complicated health app.
Speak about how you feel
Take a photo of a report
Tap Taken for medicines
Record a doctor visit with consent
One connected health story
From scattered messages to one family health timeline.
Symptoms spoken by voice become timestamped updates. Lab reports become organised records. Prescriptions stay available. Medicine reminders help track adherence. Food photos, receipts, and doctor consultations can become meaningful context for the family.
For children living away
How is Mum doing?
How is Dad doing?
What changed recently?
Is there anything to follow up?
What should we remember for the next doctor visit?
Why privacy matters
One secure place for the health information that matters.
Health information is deeply personal. Yet families often move reports, prescriptions, and medical information between messaging apps, email threads, and general-purpose AI tools simply to understand and organise them.
NivaCare Family was designed around a different approach: bring family health information together within one secure health platform instead of scattering it across WhatsApp chats or repeatedly uploading documents to general-purpose AI tools.
Secure access
Controlled family permissions
Protected health-information workflows
No WhatsApp or ChatGPT document sharing
Meet the founders
Built by people who needed this for their own family.
Dr Sunil Belur Nagaraj
Healthcare AI scientist, researcher, and entrepreneur
Sunil has spent his career developing artificial intelligence technologies for healthcare. After living abroad for more than 15 years, he understood personally how difficult it can be to stay involved in a parent's health from another country.
Dr Sowmya M. Ramaswamy
Healthcare technology and AI leader
Sowmya brings experience in building practical digital health solutions. Her focus for NivaCare Family is simple: powerful technology should feel effortless for parents and genuinely useful for children supporting them from far away.
Why we built NivaCare Family
We built it because we needed it ourselves.
Know how parents are doing without repeatedly asking them to explain complicated medical information.
Keep reports and prescriptions available when they are needed.
Remember what the doctor said.
Understand whether medicines are being taken.
Notice meaningful changes early.
Join important consultations even when living far away.
Built for families who want to stay close when it matters most.
Parents at home. Children living away. One secure place to understand, remember, and support the care journey.