Data Revolution in Healthcare and Lifesciences Industry

The other day I was sitting with my Mentors and I realised that Doctors in India can do wonders if we provide them with 512 kbps bandwidth on mobiles. Apollo Telemedicine Network Foundation and Ericsson started a program sometime back in 2007 called "Gramjyoti" in rural India and that was considered to be a big foray of telemedicine in rural healthcare.Thousands of people within the Gramjyoti project area covering 18 villages and 15 towns were able to use broadband applications. Ericsson worked in partnership with Apollo Hospitals, Hand in Hand (a local NGO), Edurite, One97, CNN and Cartoon Network to deliver a range of services including telemedicine, e-education and e-governance. Point to be noticed is the prolem area. Sometimes the main factor itself is not the sole criterion on which the success of a project depends and that is what we learnt. Those were the days of GSM technology and the conditions of roads in India was bad especially in the rural areas. Consider a van w...

Let us look at Five big points first..and then we will understand how they are interrelated. Health care Delivery system in India India is a vast country of 1. 4 billion population • It consists of 29 states and 6 Union Territories governed by a federal system • Health is a state subject which follows a three tier system – primary health centre catering a group of villages, Secondary level health centre located at district level and medical college hospitals constitute the tertiary level located in the big cities. Telemedicine in India: Potential of ICT to improve health care  65% of 1100 million will be literate by 2015  60% of rural India has access to TV coverage.  650,000 existing PCOs ® internet kiosks,.  400,000 villages already have telephone connections.  Internet users in India 2m Dec 2001, 8.5m 2003, will grow to more than 10 million by 2010. Need for Telemedicine • Non availability of facilities / skills / technology locally(rural /remote area) • Urgency of treatment...

I wanted to have some more inputs about any kind of handicap be it mobility, blindness, handicapped or deafness to e-health. Some people may be surprised to find out that the blind and visually impaired are about as likely to be on the internet as a sighted person. It can seem like a daunting task to learn to use a computer system, but the fact is, there are plenty of easy ways for the visually impaired to get online. A common method for computer access for the blind and visually impaired is a screen reader. There are many screen reader programs available; the most common is the JAWS screen reader. A screen reader takes the output from Microsoft Windows and converts it to speech. The screen reader will tell you that you are currently in the Internet Explorer browser, and it will read to you the contents of the web pages. With time, and practice, a blind or visually impaired user can become very proficient at using a computer system. Screen Readers offer a great degree of flexibility;...

There was a time in India when Air travel, matrimony, Jobs and Real estate were not organised, and then came Yatra.com, Bharatmatrimony.com, Naukri.com and magicbricks.com to organise it..Result= Major Hit If we have a look at the medical tourism side of Online Reach and approach, We have everything A rich heritage, toursit attractions, High tech specialists, Good hospitals..everything... Then why even good sites like recoverdiscover.com are not getting enough traffic, The website though older than Blog are not able to get good rankings. While the Government has been most positively speaking about promoting medical tourism, it seems that when opportunity comes calling, it is looking the other way. Read this: Government stance "We have not come to that stage of taking that leap in medical tourism yet," said B. Suman, Tourism Director, for not participating in the expo. "Hospitals here have not come up as expected," Mr. Suman said. "However, a meeting will be hel...

The eHealth strategy aims to address a number of issues currently being faced by people who provide care to patients and those who support them. The key issues can be summarised as follows: • Improved ability to access information that is integrated and accurate • Better support for clinicians and care providers from across the health system to interact more efficiently and effectively with each • Support for clinical and managerial decision making • Greater capability for managing patient flow through improved planning and scheduling • Support for location-independent health service delivery. Principles of Implementation: The principles for the implementation of the eHealth Strategy are: • Build on what exists today and re-use viable capabilities in place • Establish solid functionality and information, and then build new capabilities • Introduce new and extended capabilities in phases, and realise benefits incrementally • Identify solutions that improve quality of care and patient ou...

Your degree is in medicine, not computer science. Why then are so many physicians finding themselves focused on software these days? Government, payers and market forces are all pushing physicians to consider an Electronic Medical Records (EMR) strategy. As if practicing medicine weren't challenge enough, now you need to adopt a new layer of technology infrastructure… At the same time, the value in going digital with your patient records is increasingly clear and the technology has come of age. Just like a practice management system optimized your patient schedule and improved your receivables, today's EMRs promise to automate your clinical workflows. An EMR can reduce time spent charting, provide more efficient patient visits and help meet regulatory requirements. The good news is that selecting an EMR doesn't require in-depth technical knowledge. Instead, you simply need to roll up your sleeves and run a disciplined selection process - knowing what criteria to consider is...