Over the last two years, Healthcare has been on an exponential growth. Previously, Healthcare was limited to professionals who have been in the field and others stayed away from it even though they thought they could solve the problems. However, things changed. There are many non-Healthcare professionals who have been in the technology space who are partnering with people from…
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Anatomy of Healthcare Startup’s
Healthcare startup’s have raised close to $10 Billion worldwide in 2015 and the numbers are only increasing. What is interesting is apart from the e-Commerce, finding Doctors and Networking for Doctors, today’s startup’s are addressing almost all parts of the human body re-defining the way we live. What components of the Human Body are startup’s addressing? Brain Autoimmune Lungs…
Continue Reading→Why, What, How of Predictive Analysis in India
Enough is said about the Healthcare infrastructure in India. All what we have is problems. Doctor to Patient ratio is very less, Population to Hospital beds is less, Manpower is less. Everything is on a downward trend. Healthcare startups are focusing on bridging various aspects in Healthcare – Delivering medicines, connecting Doctors, Virtual consultation, Telemedicine etc. However, there is one…
Continue Reading→Innovation in Healthcare – How India is thinking different?
In an interview someone asked Dr. Devi Shetty, the Founder of Narayana Hrudayalaya (NH) as to why the Healthcare costs are increasing in India and he said “Over a decade ago, a heart surgery costed over Rs. 2 Lacs; and today it costs a little over half”. Over the last decade, the Healthcare landscape in India is considerably changing. Healthcare…
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When India got Independence in 1947, average life expectancy was 47 Years and today, average life expectancy is at 66.21 Years (we rank 139). Japan leads the list with average life expectancy at 84 Years followed by Spain, Andorra, Australia, Switzerland, Italy, Singapore and San Mario at 83 Years. The country with the least life expectancy is Sierra Leone at…
Continue Reading→Considerations for #healthtech Startup
We see that on an average, there are at least 10 new startup’s every month across the country trying to address Health Care IT Problems. Are we really solving or are we complicating things? According to IMS Institute for Health Care Informatics and Health Care IT News, there are more than 165,000 Health-related apps available and a mere 36 of…
Continue Reading→Which HealthCare System should India follow?
India is a very interesting, unique economy in this world and there are many reasons for that. We are the country with the highest “working population”, we are a country with various traditional medical practices (which prove to work), we are a country with considerable number of people Below Poverty Line, we are a country, where in the last two…
Continue Reading→HealthCare Startups in India
I am trying to compile a list of HealthCare Startup’s in India, mostly Technology startup’s focusing on building products/services for India and Emerging Markets like India. Here is a list which I could put together. Please share with me if I have missed any names: Isansys Surgerica GetActive Track My Beat mDhil AlcoChange Sugha Vazhvu mTatva Maha Life Sphata Implement…
Continue Reading→Does India Need an EMR?
When we look at understanding how we can address the major gaps in providing Quality HealthCare, the one point which comes to mind is why we are not utilizing the power of Technology to bridge this gap. Let me start with a story – Few years ago, I had to take my Dad to a Doctor for cough. We went…
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