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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj1kiQpEDNs&feature=em-upload_owner 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 till […]

China domain “.cn” becomes world’s largest

BEIJING, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) — China’s country code domain “.cn” is now the world’s most commonly used. It had 16.36 million users by the end of last year, topping Germany’s “.de,” according to data released on Friday by the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), which manages the domain. The .cn domain is also world […]

CanSAR, the largest database for cancer drug now in 3-D

ICTpost News Network London, Jan 6: The world’s largest database for cancer drug discovery has been updated by adding three-dimensional structures of faulty proteins and maps of cancer’s communication networks, reports a study. The updated database, developed at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, will allow scientists across the globe to design new cancer treatments […]

‘Women, small farmers should be brought under financial inclusion’

Chennai, Dec 29: A deposit scheme for the girl child, linking of Aadhaar card to each individual credit account, and development of solutions based on mobile banking technology are some of the recommendations of an RBI panel to increase financial inclusion. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) released the report of the Committee on Medium-term […]

Indian Insurers look to Digital Insurance to create new markets

Mumbai: November 1, 2015 Most Indian insurance companies expect to increase their IT budgets in 2016, and are expected to spend 140.8 billion rupees on IT products and services ? a 9.6 percent increase over 2015, according to Gartner Inc. This forecast includes spending by insurers on internal IT (including personnel), hardware, software, external IT […]

Health Ministry permits transfer of blood between Blood Banks

ICTpost News Network New Delhi: October 24, 2015 The Ministry of Health & Family Welfare has identified two major initiatives towards better utilisation of blood and blood components, as part of its commitment to ensure safe blood and enhanced access to blood products, on the recommendation of the National Blood Transfusion Council. The first step […]

Data helps us to navigate, to decide goals and chart our policies

New Delhi: September 24, 2015 J P Nadda, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare released the National Health Profile (NHP)-2015 prepared by the Central Bureau of Health Intelligence (CBHI), here today. The E-book (digital version) of the annual document, which has been prepared for the first time, was also released. The National Health Profile […]

What to Make in India? Manufacturing or Services?

New Delhi: September 15, 2015 India is taken up as a case study for addressing this question due to the poor performance of manufacturing in India and the relatively strong performance of services ? which in some ways mirrors the performance of many Sub-Saharan African countries (Ghani and O?Connell, 2014). Lee Kuan Yew was clearly […]