With mobile learning, students can learn exactly what they need to

New Delhi: September 17, 2017 The idea of implementing mobile learning into a course or instruction may be daunting for many educators. They may assume that mobile learning (aka m-learning) is too complicated and so decide to stick to the methods they have more experience with. Besides, the old fashioned methods of learning have worked […]

Telemedicine apps that make Indian health care a breeze

ICTpost?Research estimates that the market for mobile healthcare apps will be worth $600 million by 2017, while the market research company Research2Guidance claims 247 million mobile phone users had downloaded a health related app in 2012. A recent article by Bill Yates from iMEdicalApps highlighted the overall Google search traffic since 2007 for specific keywords […]

Indian Market Dynamics are Impacting Digital Business Implementation

Indian Market Dynamics are Impacting Digital Business Implementation

By Gartner New Delhi: Feb 10, 2016 Widespread failures in realizing return on investment (ROI) in digital technologies for customer experience could create a sense of distrust among buyers and decision makers in India about the potential for digital business, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner predicts that by 2017, 80 percent of consumer-facing companies will […]

India?s unique challenges: An opportunity to innovate?

India?s unique challenges: An opportunity to innovate?

Guruprasad S., General Manager, Healthcare Practise,?Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions guruprasad.s@in.bosch.com   India?s unique challenges: An opportunity to innovate? Affordable Healthcare 1,287,372,705 People Urban ? Rural inequity in HC access 5480 Towns/Cities; 638,000 Villages Doctors: 8,88,741 urban / 29,562 rural High Out of Pocket HC Spend Estimated at >75% of total Sector Growth forecasts […]

Leveraging ?ICT and Mobile phones for Redefining Primary Healthcare

Leveraging ?ICT and Mobile phones for Redefining Primary Healthcare

By Gp Capt (Dr) Sanjeev Sood , NABH Empanelled Assessor ICT has made the delivery of healthcare more efficient, effective, accessible & safer across the care continuum for both, patients & providers. It holds immense promise of changing medical practice towards redefining PHC acheivement of SDGs.   Indian Health Sector (Public) Overview Health Sub-centres 1,45,894; […]

Mobile Learning: Transforming education, engaging students, and improving outcomes

By Dhirendra Pratap Singh The advancement in ICT has resulted in the emergence of virtual classrooms. Imparting education through virtual classrooms is a new concept that is becoming popular not only in traditional educational institutions, but also in training centers with vocational courses. It has ensured access to learning from qualified staff members, transcending the […]

Start-ups, Digital India dominated IT growth in 2015

By Fakir Balaji & Sharon Thambala ? Bengaluru, Dec 27:?Even as disruptive technologies rolled out game-changing products and software majors vied for more outsourcing, the start-up revolution and the government’s Digital India initiative dominated the Indian IT industry landscape in 2015. The software services and product-driven industry have been on track this year to register […]

Innovations in mHealth and Big Data ecosystem will fix Healthcare

By Dhirendra Pratap Singh This was a big year for digital health transformation, especially for advances in personalized and connected care. Looking back at 2015, these are the four trends that will ultimately have the greatest impact on the future.?Many will remember 2015 as the year when mobile health apps and sensors took off. ?The […]

Redefining India’s Digital Governance Agenda

ICTpost Governance Bureau Many people in rural areas do not have access to modern services like insurance and are? therefore either unable to withstand vagaries of nature or fall into the clutches of usurious local moneylenders or both. Availability of such services through appropriate? ICT intermediation in even far flung and remote locations would greatly […]