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Digital Healthcare: A Paradigm Shift For The Better!
Amit Mookin, TiE Mumbai Board Member & General Manager, South Asia Quintiles IMS, elaborates on how companies are able to leverage the power of data to offer 360-degree perspective on health for its clients.
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March 2017
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Becoming An Extended Arm For Hospitals
You can think of us as a distributed hospital using the existing capacity in patient homes to take care of infrastructural gaps, immediately and cost effectively, says Vivek Srivastava, Co-Founder and CEO, HealthCare at HOME
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January 2018
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Cybersecurity Must Move From A Technology-centric View To One That Understands Human Behaviour
Understanding human behaviour is extremely important for cyber security providers in healthcare. Effective behaviourial analysis can help in controlling healthcare data breaches and cyber crimes. In keeping with this, Forcepoint has developed its IT solutions for healthcare organisations that offers better offer value. In a tête-à-tête with Raelene Kambli, Harshil Doshi, Strategic Security Solutions Consulting – India, Forcepoint, talks about the company’s vision in this direction and how this strategy is helping them provider better value
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January 2018
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Our 586 Health Units Help Us Serve The Remotest Parts Of The Country
Dr Anil Kumar, IRMS, Director General, Railway Health Services (RHS) elucidates to Prathiba Raju, on how RHS has been imparting healthcare services to the largest rail network in Asia and the world’s second-largest network operated under a single management
2 min |
January 2018
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Philips ObGyn Ultrasound Solutions: Advance Your Diagnostic Confidence
Carestream systems enhance reading of MR, CT,X-ray imaging studies; enable physicians to expedite delivery of diagnosis to patients
2 min |
January 2018
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Cancer Imaging Using PET-CT: Genesis And Current State In India
Dr AVelumani, Creator, Nueclear Healthcare, shares his insights about PET-CT, a state-of-the-art imaging technology that allows for screening, diagnosis and monitoring of cancer
6 min |
January 2018
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Fourth Edition Of Heal Held In Kerala
Discussions were held on the future of healthcare and how it can be transformed from good to great.
6 min |
November 2017
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'Delhi Govt's Three-tier Healthcare System Will Enhance Public Health'
Satyendar Jain, Minister of Health and Family Welfare Department, Government of NCT of Delhi, who is donning several other portfolios of Power, PWD, Industries in Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), in a candid and free-wheeling exclusive interaction with Prathiba Raju, elucidates about Delhi government’s three-tier healthcare system, mohalla clinics, polyclinics and multispeciality hospitals and how it is improving the healthcare infrastructure of Delhi
7 min |
November 2017
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insurance in bariatrics
dr ramen goel, director, center of bariatric & metabolic surgery, wockhardt hospitals bats for the inclusion of bariatric surgery under insurance coverage. he explains that contrary to popular belief it is more than just a cosmetic procedure and often is a life-saving surgery
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november 2016
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our diagnostic equipment has been developed in line with the make in india campaign
despite being a medical condition which affects 60 million people in india, vertigo remains highly undiagnosed. rajneesh bhandari, founder, neuroequilibrium diagnostic systems, shares his vision to address the needs of vertigo patients through his chain of specialised clinics, in an interaction with mansha gagneja.
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november 2016
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say no to diabetes
dr rama mishra, diabetologist and general physician, well beeing lifestyle health centre, bangalore, elaborates more on various treatment methods to curb the menace of diabetes.
2 min |
november 2016
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Why Ambient Light Is Important In The Reading Room?
Anantha Narayanan, Country Manager, EIZO Corporation, gives an insight on how ambient light can be of great use to radiologists to bring in more contrast and fatigue
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May 2019
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Data Driven Spine Rehab
Eight years after setting up its first clinic in Mumbai, QI Spine Clinic has reportedly prevented over 8000 spine surgeries. Founders Nithij and Anuj Arenja currently have 22 clinics across four cities and plan to expand to 80 clinics in the next five years, with a pilot clinic in the US to go live in a few months.A review of their clinical and business strategy
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May 2019
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How Artificial Intelligence And Internet Of Things Can Transform The Business Of Saving Lives
Manish Sacheti, Chief Financial Officer,Ziqitza Health Care explains the inroads made by AI in the healthcare sector to ensure not just a quick turnaround, but also accessibility to those in dire need of medical aid and care
3 min |
August 2019
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The Three A's Of Eyecare
Availability, affordability and awareness are the three key A's to help break down the barriers for addressing uncorrected refractive error (URE), tells Ella Gudwin, President, VisionSpring, to Prathiba Raju
7 min |
August 2019
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Tackling Doctor Crunch In Public Health
Despite several efforts, India still struggles with a severe shortage of doctors, especially in the rural areas. An analysis of the current situation and ways to solve the issue.
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January 2017
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Humanitarian Action And Public Health In India
Leena Menghaney,South Asia Regional Coordinator,MSF’s Access Campaign,explains how the Nobel Peace Prize winning organisation’s work on developing treatment models for DR-TB,kala azar, malaria and HIVco-infection with other diseases has encouraged India’s Ministry of Health to re-evaluate policies which impact access to quality treatment in these disease areas.
2 min |
January 2017
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'Government Of Maharashtra Has Always Been Encouraging The PPP Model In Healthcare'
In a wide-ranging interview, Dr Vijay Satbir Singh, Additional Chief Secretary, Health, Government of Maharashtra, talks about various health initiatives of the state like the upcoming new Vision 2030 document on health, a new nutrition policy and a partnership with the software giant Microsoft to boost IT in the state in an exclusive interaction with Prathiba Raju
6 min |
May 2017
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'Our Ambition Is To Reach Up To 1.6 Million People By 2018'
healthi, a fast growing digital preventive health startup has grown 9x in the first two years of its operations. Rekuram Varadharaj, Co-Founder and COO, healthi talks about the company’s vison, its business model, various initiatives, tie ups with Government of India and more, in an interaction with Prathiba Raju
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May 2017
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'Our Intent Is To Provie Quality Medicines At An Affordable Price'
Biplab Chatterjee, CEO, Bureau of Pharma PSUs of India (BPPI), shares his plans in scaling up the Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Jan Aushadhi Pariyojana (PMBJP) and promoting generic medicines across the country. In an interaction with Prathiba Raju, he touches upon important aspects such as procurement methods, their strategy for expansion and consumer awareness
5 min |
May 2017
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'Indian Doctors (in the US) Still Face A Glass Ceiling In Academic Promotions, Institutional Hierarchies'
Dr Suresh Reddy, Vice President, Association of American Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI), explains to Viveka Roychowdhury how his mission is to bring distinctive contributions from India to American medicine while championing the challenges faced by the Indian-origin medical fraternity in the US
3 min |
May 2017
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Ayurveda undergoes a renaissance
Understanding the harmful effects of chemicals, the modern consumer inclines toward the traditional Indian science. Arjun Vaidya, CEO, Dr Vaidya’s, shares insights about the changing trends and new age products in conversation with Mansha Gagneja.
3 min |
December 2016
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VR Labs trending in healthcare
Virtual reality is not only limited to gaming, this innovation is a leading trend in healthcare. The Centre for Advanced Design in Engineering Training (CADET) VR Lab in Deakin University, Australia, facilitates automatic virtual environment with a computer-aided design which gives hands-on experience to training junior doctors and midwives in a virtual world. Professor Guy Littlefair, Pro Vice-Chancellor Industry Development at Deakin University, reveals more in an interaction with Prathiba Raju.
2 min |
December 2016
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Affordable pricing strategy is our USP
Suresh Vazirani, Founder,Transasia Bio-Medicals shares his views on the Indian In Vitrodiagnostic market (IVD) and talks about how his company has successfully earned a major market share within the emerging IVD markets of the world, in a conversation with Raelene Kambli.
4 min |
December 2016
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Industry Reacts Negatively To Stent Price Capping By NPPA
It will deprive patients of latest tech advancements, say medical technology industry, associations.
4 min |
March 2017
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Inheritance Patterns
Dr V L Ramprasad, COO, MedGenome, gives an insight on ways to improve global health by decoding the information contained in an individual’s genome.
5 min |
March 2017
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Are Blood Transfusions Safe?
The latest National Aids Control Organisation (NACO) report reveals a 10 per cent rise in the number of HIV cases through blood tranfusion in the past one year in India. Highlighting the risks associated with unsafe blood transfusions, Sumit Bagaria, CEO, Hemogenomics opines that the solution is ID-NAT (Individual Donor – Nucleic Acid Testing), an international standard blood screening test.
5 min |
March 2017
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Cardiac Sector in India
Dr K M Cherian, Chairman and CEO, Frontier Lifeline Hospital, Chennai, talks about the current sector of the cardiac sector, the challenges invloved and the way ahead
5 min |
Express Healthcare (Vol.11, No.4) April, 2017
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Internet Of Medical Things: Giving A Shot In The Arm To The Healthcare Sector
Murali Krishnan, Associate Vice President, HCL Infosystems, chalks out the reasons on how IoMT is likely to gain more traction this year
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Express Healthcare (Vol.11, No.4) April, 2017
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'We Are Working In The Direction Of Citizen Empowerment Through Information Dissemination'
Government of India’s National eHealth Authority (NeHA) will accelerate adoption of electronic health records (EHR) of patients. It will provide a well-connected ICT platform that can inter-operate across healthcare providers, both in public and private sectors, without compromising on patients’ confidentiality, informs Jitendra Arora, Director (eHealth), MoHFW, in a tete-a-tete with Prathiba Raju.
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