Hims and Hers Business Strategies Analysis: Lesson For Telemedicine Vendors & Healthcare Startups

As per the official report, Hims & Hers has tied up with Uber for providing on-demand delivery of wellness and healthcare products and over-the-counter medicines offered by Hims and Hers.

Starting from the first week of December 2022, users will be able to order skincare, hair care and sexual care products of Hims & Hers using the Uber Eats app.

This on-demand service is available on the app in 12 cities across the U.S., including Los Angeles, Dallas, Miami, Atlanta and Philadelphia.

Hims and Hers Health addresses the most common challenges of the people.

It writes in its official blog post that seeing a physician in an office that opens on fixed hours is difficult while balancing the demands of daily life.

Hims telemedicine provides the ultimate ability for people to see physicians anytime from anywhere.

It helps people expand their reach to physicians who are not easily accessible from brick-and-mortar clinics.

Thus, many of its users are only using the Hims telemedicine solution to receive care without taking leave from work and without traveling miles to the clinic.

This is their most game-changing business strategy.

In addition to the online clinic, they run an over-the-counter pharmacy that can sell medical supplies and drugs that do not require a prescription.

Such an approach makes them generate more revenue per user or increase the unit economics.

Because many times people having healthcare problems can be solved with over-the-counter drugs and since users receive such drugs from the same platform, they would buy it straight away.

For instance, if a user has a hair fall problem, Hims and Hers provides doctor consultation and also hair care products to control hair fall from one source only.

There is a high probability that people who do not need a consultation, end up buying hair care products.

And people who need a consultation, end up buying hair care products and consultation both!

How clever!

Following are some of their men’s hair care products people can buy online.

And there is nothing wrong here.

After all, both women and men have different healthcare complications.

The company Hims was founded to sell men-centric personal care products and supplements.

But soon, they launched women-centric services under the brand name Hers.

As of now, they are keeping these two brands separate.

Even they have separate websites to address gender-specific healthcare challenges more efficiently.

The personal care products they’re providing under the Hims brand are almost the same as the Hers brand when it comes to categories such as hair, skin, etc.

However, the Hers brand is selling some products that address women-specific healthcare complications such as birth control and eyelash growth.

One surprising thing we noticed is that Hers is selling more women’s hair care products in an organized way with more ‘kit or combo’ options than the Hims brand.

The following are just 2 of them.

This depicts how they are leveraging women’s more interest to look after their hair against men’s less interest.

Hims and Hers offers dedicated services and products for sexual wellness.

There is a large population out there who has such healthcare complications.

However, the traditional healthcare approach fails to provide them with more private care while letting them stay in their comfort zone.

People do not feel confident sharing their complications with a physician in an in-person meeting.

Hims and Hers have identified this unanswered challenge of the people and solved it.

The platform allows users to describe their problems by answering a few pre-listed questions.

Based on the answers to these questions, the physician can easily understand the cause of the problem.

Here, the smart software also helps physicians to easily figure out the factors causing complications.

If the user wants, he can talk to the physician through a video call.

He/She can also choose the chat option to not reveal his visual identity.

The packaging of prescription drugs also ensures privacy.