Google today announced that it will make available access to more than 400 health conditions on their search site in English and Hindi for the India’s population. This feature is already available in the US and recently they have also started in Brazil. In India Google will do a check of the condition and symptoms partnering with Apollo Hospitals and…
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What has changed in Indian Healthcare landscape?
According to the World Economic Form and Harvard Public School, the probability of during the most productive years – 30 Years to 70 Years is predominantly because of non-communicable diseases like Heart stroke, heart diseases, pulmonary diseases, and diabetes. This is accounting to 26% of death’s in India in this age group. India struggled to bring down the Infant Mortality…
Continue Reading→How can Big Data change Healthcare?
How can Big Data change or transform Healthcare? We capture Insurance information, medical history and wearable devices can track the lifestyle and provide more in-depth information on how the person actually is. Have you noticed how a couple’s who have been together for longer periods communicate? They talk with their eyes many times. Whereas younger couple speak and share their…
Continue Reading→How to build India’s HealthCare System?
India is always compared to US, a nation which has established it’s 300 Years of Independence and quite a few times, the policies are compared and contrasted with the US. I personally feel we should not do this comparison and focus on how to build Innovative solutions to address the needs of a country like India. India is 4 times…
Continue Reading→Indian HealthCare Education – How is it distributed?
India ranks 112 in the World Health Organisation (WHO) Ranking of The World’s Health Systems. When it comes to per-capita spending on Health Care, India spends a little over 6% of GDP on HealthCare. These are the common statistics which we see every day. What I wish to share are the other aspects of Indian HealthCare system which provide a strong…
Continue Reading→Issues with HealthCare IT in India
Over the last few years, have been fortunate enough to be working with the HealthCare sector in India. In the due course of time, I have been interacting with IT Departments of various Hospitals (Very Large and Large and to some extent at the Primary Health level too). What I have been trying to understand is the key reasons as…
Continue Reading→HealthCare Infrastructure in India
There have been many articles, research papers and writeup on this topic available on the web. As part of a research project, I managed to gather some data points for understanding the State of HealthCare in India. Thorough this post, would like to share my findings and provide some references for a better understanding on this subject.Economically, India has been…
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