New Delhi: Indian-origin Dr Sumbul Desai, Vice President of Health at Apple, will be in India next month to share her thoughts on how healthtech is transforming the healthcare sector globally. Desai, who recently served as Vice Chair of Strategy and Innovation in the Department of Medicine at Stanford Medicine in the US, will participate … 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
New Delhi: The novel Sars-Cov-2 continues evolving to more critical and infectious variants. Health experts in India have advised against letting the guard down on the fight against the pandemic in the face of the new variant that is anticipated to spread faster through the market places and the festival times. As certain variants possess … Read more
Dr Rajendra Pratap Gupta, Founder-Health Parliament and former advisor to the Health Minister, Government of India spoke to ETHealthworld’s Prathiba Raju on how healthcare is adopting technology faster than we can imagine. Further elucidated about the ‘Certified Digital Health Professional’ (CDHP) course blending the fields of health, technology, and management. How this course jointly offered … Read more
Kochi: A Kerala-based hospital has developed and implemented new computational tools which can accurately identify the “epileptic focus”, the accurate identification of which is a major challenge in epilepsy surgery. The Centre for Epilepsy at Amrita Hospital here conducted multiple studies between the years 2015 and 2019 in around 100 difficult-to-treat epilepsy patients in this … Read more
Washington: Researchers believe that developing cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) that can quickly and accurately identify lung diseases like pneumonia and tuberculosis could relieve the strain that winter months place on hospitals. Tuberculosis and pneumonia – potentially serious infections which mainly affect the lungs -often require a combination of different diagnostic tests,- such as CT scans, … Read more
Mumbai: Dr Pankaj Jethwani, Executive Vice President, W Health Ventures spoke to ETHealthworld’s Prabhat Prakash on the budding ecosystem of health Indian start-ups in comparison to the US market and why established healthcare stakeholders are investing in these upstart ventures. How can start-ups disrupt healthcare with established players and how does it benefit both? Pre-COVID, … Read more
New Delhi: The National Health Authority (NHA) announced the partnership between Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) and Pristyn Care through the NHA’s official Twitter handle, mentioning that one can create an ABHA (Ayushman Bharat Health Account) ID from the Pristyn Care App. NHA has also formally listed Pristyn Care as a partner on their website. … Read more
By Raviteja Dodda The rapid adoption of technology, driven by the Covid-19 pandemic, is proving to be a big ‘booster dose’ for the country’s healthcare ecosystem, steering it towards unprecedented digital transformation and innovation. For long, the healthcare industry has been focused on offering treatment after the onset of a disease or when complications arise. … Read more
New Delhi: Health-tech Company HCAH (HealthCare at HOME) has raised Rs 112 crore from Singapore based private equity fund ABC World Asia (“ABC”) to build a hospital healthcare delivery platform. HCAH aims to use this investment for physical rehabilitation and recovery through its service range of home ICU, inpatient rehab in transition care centers including … Read more