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September 2015 - Volume 10 - Issue 07
Editorial Dr. Ravi Gupta, Editor-in-Chief
There is a dire need to create an infrastructure to provide basic healthcare facilities to the teeming millions. The current issue of eHealth will highlight the policies and private sector initiatives that can help create infrastructure void. According to a recent PwC report... more
Cover Story
Indian healthcare infrastructure is in a state of paradox. While certain urban centres have five-star deluxe facility hospitals with a state-of-theart medical technologies. there are areas which don’t even have... more
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

mHealth for Inclusive Healthcare Delivery
R Prasanna
Director - Health Services, Chhattisgarh
Digital health is all set to transform the delivery of health services in remote areas of Chhattisgarh, mainly the Naxal-affected region. The Health Department has undertaken many technology-driven steps to improve the healthcare in the State, with launch of eHealth portal in Hindi being the major one. This portal enables public to access all information related to the Department in both Hindi and English. Now, we are thinking... more
Innovating Care Solutions
Dr Adheet S Gogate
Partner & Head, Philips Healthcare Transformation Services
India’s healthcare infrastructure development market is more or less similar to those in mid-sized economies. Driven by factors such as rising standards, expectation of better ambiences in the enduser spaces, it is also constrained by patchy construction quality, questionable labour quality and productivity poor fits and finishes, high variability across cities and locations, regulatory uncertainty. Few other challenges come in the form of disproportionately... more

Reaching the Unreached
Rahul Mullick
Head - ICT & Supply Chain, India Programs, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
A large part of the global mHealth market will focus on monitoring services. Mobility devices (bands, health apps on phones etc.) are the ones capturing global attention in mhealth. Many of these are however, urban focussed. To address India’s health concerns, there are many projects in the rural areas that can be game changers. For instance, realtime capturing of weight and height of malnourished children and monitoring growth remotely... more
BUYERS SPEAK
Skilled Resources for Optimum Healthcare
Dr H S Chhabra
Chief of Spine Services & Medical Director, Indian Spinal Injuries Centre, Vasant Kunj
Healthcare industry in India is experiencing a growth owing to the factors such as strong coverage, expanding services and increase in expenditure by public as well private players. Additionally, factors such as rise in income levels... more
Call for Structured Patient Information Integration
Dr Jagdish Modhe
Head of Imaging Department, PD Hinduja Hospital,
Mumbai
The Indian healthcare infrastructure market needs to go a long way. The international market such as US and Europe is well structured and they importance to IT in terms of medical records are electronically stored. Unfortunately... more
START-UPS
Mobilising Healthcare Solutions
Incorporated in 2012 by Anil Kumar and Vijayakumar Kannan have innovated a platform in the area of Tele-Health and Care Management enabling smarter healthcare for everyone. SmartRx’s mobile platform enables engagement of patient, doctor and hospitals to improve quality of care. The company solutions improves access to healthcare for patients while improving care delivery for doctors... more
Creating IT Infrastructure
With the idea of providing solutions in Healthcare IT Consultancy Service domain, Health Corniche was founded on February 02, 2015 by Dr Archana BM and co-founder Kiran Kumar. The company aims to provide the customer solutions to make the best use of IT, generating efficient and quality output. Health Corniche is a local Bangalore based company that focuses on providing knowledge and support... more
INDUSTRY SPEAK

ICT: Changing Healthcare Dynamics
Abhijit Gupta
Founder & CEO, Praxify Technologies
With the advent of cloud and mobility, and the growing demand of ubiquitous access, IT has started playing a strong role of an enabler in medical infrastructure. CIOs are looking at providing accessibility, efficiency and productivity improvements for their clinicians and patients by enabling them with better mobility enabled workflow applications. These mobile and cloud enabled applications imply a lot of backend infrastructure readiness from IT... more
HIT: Window of Opportunity

A Arvind Kumar
CEO, Attune Technologies
There are three drivers, firstly the health insurance penetration. Earlier, health insurance penetration was not big. There are two kinds of schemes - Below Poverty Line (BPL) mass insurance scheme, where government pays health insurance premium to health insurance companies, to provide free treatment to the people in private and public hospitals. In the states like Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh, every year the premium touches up to Rs750 crores... more

Structuring Modern Hospitals

Sanjay Jaiswal
Founder & MD, Airox Technologies Private Limited
India’s per capita expenditure on healthcare is very low compared with developed countries such as US (per capita healthcare expenditure of US$ 4,700 in 2010), the UK (US$ 1,700), Japan (US$ 2,800), etc. This is primarily on account of low disposable income and low government spend, the Indian government expenditure on healthcare is amongst the lowest, accounting for 4.2 per cent of the total GDP. At present, the general public meets around 78 percent ... more
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