Digital health has potential to support overall UHC targets: Dr Mansukh Mandaviya – ET HealthWorld

Digital health has potential to support overall UHC targets: Dr Mansukh Mandaviya – ET HealthWorld

New Delhi: Digital solutions hold the capacity to revolutionise the healthcare delivery systems. India aims to launch a global initiative on digital health as an institutional framework. This framework aims to converge the global efforts for digital health and scale up digital solutions with the use of cutting-edge technologies. It is time to move from … Read more

MoHFW, WHO South-East Asia Regional office organising global conference on digital health – ET HealthWorld

MoHFW, WHO South-East Asia Regional office organising global conference on digital health – ET HealthWorld

New Delhi: Leveraging India’s presidency of the G20 and the prolific actions and commitments of previous presidencies, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and the WHO South-East Asia Regional office are organising a two-day global conference on digital health – ‘Taking Universal Health Coverage to the last citizen’ on March 20-21, 2023 in … Read more

Scholarships for new-age professionals

Scholarships for new-age professionals

TalentSprint, that offers transformational deep-tech learning programmes for new-age professionals, has announced DeepTech Scholarships to address the need for upskilling in today’s workforce. By offering 500 scholarships worth ₹3 crore across 19 domains, TalentSprint aims to empower professionals to encourage diversity, promote talent and offer opportunities for everyone. Women applicants wanting to restart reboot their … Read more

AIIMS and IIIT-Delhi sign MoU to advance digital health technologies – ET HealthWorld

AIIMS and IIIT-Delhi sign MoU to advance digital health technologies – ET HealthWorld

New Delhi: All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi (IIIT-Delhi) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to work on various aspects of digital health areas jointly. Under the MoU, both institutions will work together in areas such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and computational genomics … Read more

Collaborative efforts, equitable access crucial to bridging gaps between digital and global health: Prof Ilona Kickbusch – ET HealthWorld

Collaborative efforts, equitable access crucial to bridging gaps between digital and global health: Prof Ilona Kickbusch – ET HealthWorld

New Delhi: Healthcare advancements across the world are being spearheaded by digital transformations as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and digital data are revolutionising the industry at a rapid scale. Effective IT deployment is at the forefront of this new-age healthcare revolution, informed health industry experts at the tenth International Conference on ‘Transforming Healthcare … Read more

Union Budget 2023 ticks the right boxes for India’s digital health infrastructural ambitions, Health News, ET HealthWorld

Union Budget 2023 ticks the right boxes for India’s digital health infrastructural ambitions, Health News, ET HealthWorld

By Abhishek Bhatia New Delhi: Amidst a lot of predictions, speculation, and punditry, the Union Budget 2023–24 was out on Wednesday. Although Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman‘s speech in Parliament did not include enough references to healthcare, some of the announcements about artificial intelligence (AI), data governance, and 5G policy decisions have raised many eyebrows. Experts … Read more

Digital health deserves a better deal in the Union Budget, Health News, ET HealthWorld

Digital health deserves a better deal in the Union Budget, Health News, ET HealthWorld

by Dr Vaibhav Kapoor The healthcare sector has not been able to derive the benefits of the GST transition like other sectors of the economy. Instead, embedded taxes have increased in the post-GST regime. The Union Budget should ease GST norms to enable the healthcare sector, including new-age healthcare players to derive benefits. The Budget … Read more

With digital therapeutics, you can design your health, Health News, ET HealthWorld

With digital therapeutics, you can design your health, Health News, ET HealthWorld

By Hans Lewis Mumbai: Digital Health has emerged as a go-to-by thing during the last decade thanks to smart phones, mobile applications, wearable devices, cloud-based data platforms, social media platforms, and the like. The result is, that unlike the past, today’s patients enjoy greater power which in other words means they now have the freedom … Read more

Lupin Digital Health launches evidence-based holistic heart care programme LYFE, Health News, ET HealthWorld

Lupin Digital Health launches evidence-based holistic heart care programme LYFE, Health News, ET HealthWorld

Mumbai: Lupin Digital Health announced the launch of its digital therapeutics solution, LYFE, an evidence-based holistic heart care programme that significantly reduces the risk of a heart attack and improves vitals and quality of life for cardiac patients. Designed by leading Indian cardiologists, the programme helps patients improve their heart health through doctor-connected online and … Read more

Covid has accelerated adoption of digital tools: Health Minister Mandaviya, Health News, ET HealthWorld

Covid has accelerated adoption of digital tools: Health Minister Mandaviya, Health News, ET HealthWorld

New Delhi: The COVID-19 pandemic has been a catalyst of growth and has accelerated the adoption of digital tools, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said on Friday, while stressing that under India’s presidency, the proposed G20 global initiative on digital health will prioritise bridging the digital divide. The initiative will bring together scientific expertise, collective … Read more