Broadband holds the power to improve healthcare in rural India

Broadband holds the power to improve healthcare in rural India

New Delhi: August 3, 2023 As India moves deeper into the 21st century, it has become increasingly evident that improving the healthcare system has climbed near the top of the nation’s agenda. The key challenges have been evident for some time providing access to care for every Indian, assuring a high quality of care across […]

Tele-clinics could bring about drastic changes in rural India

Tele-clinics could bring about drastic changes in rural India

ICTpost Health IT Bureau Tele-clinics indeed have the potential to bring about drastic and positive changes in rural India, addressing healthcare challenges and improving access to medical services. Here are several ways in which tele-clinics can make a significant impact in rural areas: Increased Access to Healthcare: Tele-clinics enable residents in remote and underserved rural […]

mHealth provides access information that assists in reducing health risk factors

mHealth provides access information that assists in reducing health risk factors

ICTpost mHealth Bureau In spite of the advancements in medical technologies and a general increase in income levels, healthcare continues to pose challenges of affordability, complexity and access across the world. In developed markets, per capita healthcare expenditures have risen faster than both income levels and inflation rates over the past decade due to rising […]

Low success rates of Healthcare IT implementations

Low success rates of Healthcare IT implementations

By Dr. S. B. Bhattacharyya, SBB’s Blog The abominably low success rates (< 4%) of healthcare IT implementations worldwide can be attributed to two principal reasons. (1) Improper leveraging of the actual end users, and (2) lack of having qualified experts to mentor, if not actually do the review and final testing.Let me go ahead […]

ICT initiatives in India to combat COVID-19

ICT initiatives in India to combat COVID-19

By Nirupam Bajpai, John Biberman and Manisha Wadhwa (Centre for Sustainable Development) Information and Communications Technology (ICT) has emerged as one of the key players in fighting the COVID-19 situation in India. The unprecedented crisis due to COVID-19 has accelerated the process of digitalization of many services and businesses including healthcare services, education, online delivery […]

Evolution of IT in Indian health insurance sector

Evolution of IT in Indian health insurance sector

Somil Nagpal, Senior Health Specialist , The World Bank ICT is being seen as game changer for government and private health insurance by addressing two critical challenges: The first is, Reducing Transaction Costs for enrollment, distribution, communications and claim processing. The second is, Improving internal controls and information empowerment, reducing frauds and leakages,improving product design.

Wireless Devices Technology advances Medicine into the Future

Wireless Devices Technology advances Medicine into the Future

New Delhi: January 29, 2021 Medical treatment is about to go wireless. New advances in microelectronics have enabled doctors to contemplate the day when they will be able to monitor and treat their patients with medical implants that use wi-fi, Bluetooth and other kinds of wireless technology. With this technology physicians will be able to […]

How mobile apps and RFID could change Indian health care

ICTpost Health IT Bureau There is currently a wealth of apps on several platforms which allow users to transfer readings from a medical device, which can then be stored and displayed on the device, or uploaded to a cloud-basedsystem. This is possible by buying independent devices which utilize wireless technologies such as ANT+ or Bluetooth. […]

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