By Dr. Dinesh K. Tyagi, CEO-CSC SPV In India, access to healthcare, especially for the rural population has been a challenge for the Government. Availability of infrastructure, specialists, doctors and nursing/ paramedics is very low compared to the average in developed countries. With the advent of technology, these issues can be addressed to some extent […]
20 May, 2018; New Delhi Look and you’ll see an exciting landscape emerging in the banking arena. One where there is a billion-strong market actively seeking financial services but remains largely unattended to. These globally distributed prospective customers represent enormous earning potential for banks, but constitute the unbanked. The unbanked are those who do not […]
By R. Gandhi, Deputy Governor , RBI We have been focusing our attention on developing the payment systems in the country for the past thirty five years, starting from the computerization of clearing houses way back in early 1980s. Thanks to all these years? efforts, today we have a vibrant, innovating, efficient and secured payment […]
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 […]
ICTpost Health IT Bureau The current Indian healthcare system is in need of a radical reinvention. Traditional approaches have not brought the rapid change required by aging populations and the rising costs of healthcare, and government efforts too often get bogged down in partisan politics and fail to address systemic issues. Here we are discussing […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
