New Delhi: Practo‘s Ray a practice management software, is now compliant with the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM). Through this, all doctors and healthcare professionals who are currently using Ray will be able to join the ABDM ecosystem and can avail of all the benefits provided by the government including the Digital Health Incentive Scheme … Read more
Delhi: The increasing disease burden, spiralling costs and demand for quality healthcare services have placed tremendous pressure on healthcare resources. As healthcare providers strive to bring in operational efficiencies, enhance service delivery and improve health outcomes, technology is finding greater application across the value chain. With this background, Grant Thornton Bharat and the Association of … Read more
By Runam Mehta New Delhi: India’s healthcare landscape has undergone a major transformation in the last three years. Technology has transformed the way this industry interacts with its consumers and disrupted numerous existing models. Apart from private entities and healthcare startups that emerged as problem solvers in the face of the exigency, the government provided … Read more
By Dr Arun Gupta Healthcare, for decades, has been dependent on physical interactions between the patient and the healthcare providers. From visiting the nearest clinic, getting medicines from the pharmacy or even getting blood drawn for tests, patients have had to physically travel to access any medical assistance. This, however, changed with the introduction of … Read more
By Devashish Mamgain India’s adoption of smartphones, spurred on by a “Digital India” campaign and the COVID-19 pandemic, has led to smartphone technologies being embraced by necessity and force, resulting in almost 600 million user figures in 2021. Integrating life services like Unified Payments Interface (UPI), Aadhaar, CoWin, and WhatsApp HealthDesk into mobile phones has … Read more
New Delhi : Prospects that digital health can provide are limitless provided proper implementation with coordination of all stakeholders, said National Health Authority Chief Executive Officer RS Sharma on Friday. “Digital technology is not an end to achieving healthcare but it can facilitate innovations and transform health making it more accessible, effective and time-saving,” he … Read more
By Dr Rajendra Pratap Gupta With 5G launched this month, the pace of change in healthcare has become exponential. 5G is a technology, the implications of which in healthcare are beyond comprehension. The adoption of technology is now a foregone conclusion. It was time to discuss how technology disrupts healthcare, so we hosted this global … Read more
New Delhi: The National Health Authority (NHA) announced expansion of the digital health ecosystem under its flagship scheme Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) with successful integrations of 52 digital health applications. In the last two months, additional 12 health service applications completed their integration across various milestones in the ABDM sandbox environment. After a successful … Read more
Calling digital health a great equaliser, Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Wednesday said there is a need to create a tech-supported healthcare service delivery that is resilient, reliable, and accessible till the last-mile. Addressing a session on ‘Unlocking the power of digital health’ at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting here, he said India has … Read more
The healthcare infrastructure in India has seen a rapid ramping during the past two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, but there is still a long way to go before making healthcare accessible to all. There are many communities that are still marginalized due to a lack of basic healthcare amenities, which happens to be something … Read more