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The Indian healthcare industry has gone through phenomenal development over the past decades. The immense growth of the sector, owing to the private player investments and world-class facilities/services, has made the Indian healthcare emerge as a global top-performer. This continual growth of the sector has extended far beyond the realm of hospitals, in providing curative, preventive, palliative, and rehabilitative healthcare services. Moreover, the increasing demand for healthcare services in recent years and the existence of non-communicable diseases has posed the need for specialized healthcare programs to cater to the specific needs of the people. As a result, the healthcare industry today is replacing its traditional healthcare delivery model with a patient-centric, quality-focused, specialized healthcare that drives a holistic benefit. In India, the growth of specialized healthcare practice is seen as a part of the expanding scope of healthcare services and delivery. The s

In India, mental health has long been a topic that has never made it to the conversations. If it was at all mentioned, it was discussed uncomfortably in hushed up tones. There was always an undercurrent that the issue needs to be discussed, but the reality was that the inclination was more towards sweeping it under the rug rather than visiting a psychologist. The issue used to be shoved aside as visiting a psychiatrist would give you the title of “mad.” India is one of the fastest growing countries in the world, and this pressure of development is felt equally by the gen-y and the millennials. There is surmounting pressure of work, the zeal to be at the top and over-competitiveness which amalgamates into daily stress and burden leading to increasing cases of nervous breakdowns and depression. Speaking at an event, our honorable President, Mr. Ram Nath Kovind warned that the country is facing a possible mental health epidemic and the number of mental health affected people in Indi

As the healthcare industry progresses towards value-based care, the patients are being gradually looked as consumers and clients of the healthcare services. This change towards healthcare consumerism means that the healthcare providers are targeting the services towards patients which in turn help the patients in becoming more and more engaged in their healthcare decisions. The healthcare consumers are also beginning to do their own research in order to make informed care choices in all the healthcare options like retail clinics and the online care sites. The variety and variability of resources and locations available today for healthcare purposes, however, also indicate that there is an increase in the competition for any healthcare provider in the market. This is why the healthcare organizations have started to put the patients at the center of their strategies so as to improve consumer loyalty by changing the ways they provide healthcare, for instance, offering easier access

With the tremendous rate that the healthcare market is seeing in the recent times, it is expected to have a threefold increase in the coming years, owing to the trends and innovations sprouting up in the sector. Utilizing the recent technological advancements and innovations, the Indian healthcare sector is steering its way forward successfully to provide quality healthcare to the masses. The extensive growth and usage of digital technology in the healthcare industry have revolutionized and transformed the healthcare sector, creating a well-disposed atmosphere to provide quality, cost-efficient services. Particularly, the advanced technology and communications that have heading into the hospital care systems have served to uplift the overall quality of the healthcare facilities and indeed refurbishing them for the better. In that sense, e-health services, remote monitoring, and patient-centric healthcare services/delivery are gaining much attention in the mainstream healthcare, which

With the impending progress of the healthcare sector, it goes without saying that the data associated with it is also going to increase at an unprecedented rate. With the varied sources of data ranging from EHRs, laboratories, medical equipment, and the patients themselves, it is quite natural that the size of the data is burgeoning. The amount of data generated by the healthcare sector alone is going to amount to exabytes, petabytes, and even yottabytes leading to this data being called the BD or Big Data. Embedding Big Data to the healthcare sector and hosting it on Cloud provides an effective solution to the data handling issues that come as part and parcel of dealing with such a ginormous quantity of data. Introduction of the Big Data technology in the healthcare sector coupled with cloud computing can provide a new course to the medical models. Besides, there will be a remarkable increase in the profits due to the application of better business acumen. Healthcare sector is

The last two decades have really been great for the healthcare industry. There have been some impressive improvements which have changed the face of medication and patient care. Technology is undoubtedly one of the main driving forces behind these innovations and developments that have come about. The digital innovation and advancements are bringing with itself an era of democratization of patient care whereby each patient has more control over health care. There has also been a vast growth of communication technology which has made it easier to fight the kind of epidemics that seemed incurable even a few years back. To look at the overall picture, the progress of technology has really brought in good news for both the caregivers and the patients. Let us take a look at the top six changes which have revolutionized the ways and methods of the healthcare sector in the recent times. Smart Sensors and Smarter Pills By using innovative technology and predictive knowledge, scient

In the recent decades, India is becoming rapidly urbanized. As a result, there is a tremendous need and demand for healthcare services, particularly among the growing urban population. The existing health system in India allows good scope for improving national health indices and achieving universal health coverage. However, the high-concentration urban locality demands a considerably large number of healthcare providers and there arises the need for easy access to healthcare services for the growing population. This is, indeed, becoming a significant challenge for the country as it has to cater to the healthcare needs of the increasing urban population and to ease things on the way, efforts and solutions are proposed to tackle the challenges and strengthen the urban healthcare systems. Urban Health: The era of globalization and liberalization has migrated the population towards the urban centers, as a result, consuming a larger part of the urban resources and leaving the u

Growth and development of the healthcare sector is and has always remained of prime importance for any country of the world. Talking particularly about India, the sector has seen some outstanding growth in the past few years and is also steadily contributing to the rapid economic and social progress of the nation. If you look at the scenario of healthcare in the country and beyond, you will see the condition is quite heartening. The changes that have come about in the past five years have given a major boost to patient care, medicines, and allied activities. It is worth mentioning in this regard that the advancement in the sector of health information technology has played a major role in this rapid rate of development of the healthcare sector as a whole. Health Information Technology or HIT, in the simplest of terms, is the use of both computer software and hardware for storing, retrieval, sharing, and utilization of healthcare related information, knowledge, and data for better