Data Revolution in Healthcare and Lifesciences Industry

Shift from Communicable to Chronic Disease Over the next 10 years the cost of diabetes, heart disease, and stroke will take a tremendous toll on the national incomes of developing world countries. Mobile based Healthcare can be further enhanced to address these challenges using tools currently available. For example, just as SMS alerts are useful in raising public health awareness of communicable diseases, these same types of alerts can be used to ensure patient adherence with treatment of chronic diseases such as diabetes. SMS alerts can be sent out to address chronic diseases and mental health issues in urban areas such as smoking cessation and nutrition reminders. Enhancing Mobile based Healthcare Addressing future health needs will be facilitated by the development of mobile technologies and network expansion. The key technology trends in mobile technology continue to be the same trends that have characterized technological progress for the past 40 years: miniaturization, greater s...

Improve physician segmentation and targeting With the proliferation of multiple channels there is the need to be able to gather information from multiple sources to better target physicians and maximize sales impact. Only a CRM lets you respond quickly to changing market conditions by providing analytics that are built into the sales force automation and marketing applications, to better target physicians and maximize sales impact. You can use the applications to realign your sales force quickly, validate an alignment before deploying it in production, and model several alignment strategies. Concurrently, you can maintain historical views of alignments and territories to comply with federal regulations. To help unify your sales efforts, the application supports cross-functional processes such as customer targeting, samples and territory and objectives management. The application can be used both online and offline, the sales representatives can easily create target lists to plan routes...

Better managed Portals: Remember when simply establishing an online presence was a big deal? The healthcare industry is reacting to: Empowered consumers who are seeking information on the Internet in record numbers Dissatisfied consumers who are willing to spend their own money to get the care they want Consumers who want to manage their own care and have greater access to their physicians. CRM enabled Health Portal allows you to respond to all of these trends. As an integral part of a comprehensive CRM solution, the health portal is a password-secure, health management tool. Because one web model no longer fits all consumers, the CRM has to be custom made, personal and flexible. Patients can keep all of their health and insurance information in one place, make appointments and requests via e-mail with their physician's office, receive information on subjects they choose, receive reminders about medication schedules, classes or exercise timetables and other health calendar entr...

Yesterday evening, when I was sipping my best cuppa of Coffee...My friends rang me..What time dude..Rememeber we need to meet and discuss..the same..How profitable a business is ehealth...My head was spinning though, I still said Yes...After I came back I thought I should write about Ehealth as a concept and profitability. For years, thousands of people around the world have been publishing small Websites dedicated to a specific health or mental health topic. Maybe it was a site devoted to colon cancer, or breast cancer, or traumatic brain injuries. Maybe it was a site full of information about depression, or mania, or borderline personality disorder. Thousands of people toiled hundreds of thousand of hours to create these small, informative sites, linking to other great informative sites or which are already successful and all that, but does that works? In late 1996 and early 1997, companies started forming around the idea of compiling a whole bunch of health or mental health informat...

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;...

First of all I would like to thank all of you for this overwhelming response.. So lets take our discussion further, Yesterday I was talking to a few people on the possible alliances between scommerce and health as for them all this was new. Lets first of all have a look at stats: 10% of Retail shopping including health and cosmetic products happens online, out of which the conversion of the best websites is almost 4%.(that too not in first 3 yrs.) I firmly believe in this survey which happened among approximately 2,000 online shoppers, that a majority (53 percent) went directly to retailer and manufacturer sites to research and purchase products, rather than using shopping comparison sites or social and/or community networking sites. So 100 - 53= 47% left. Of this 47% around 35% wanted to be physically present in the store while they buy and were certainly not online shoppers. While social and community sites and content offer some value, they are only driving a small portion of online...