The idea of expecting a doctor/physician to be responsible for keeping a patient’s health records up to date throughout his/her care journey, is obviously not preferred these days. Neither is the practice scalable nor does it allow adoption and application of recent and new technologies. In healthcare, information about a patient/citizen is created from the … Need For A Robust ABDM Healthcare Network Enabling Cancer Care Without Walls By Manish Sharma @Msharmas Read More ..read more

Greetings! HL7 India is pleased to invite you to the second edition of the FHIR Connectathon!  HL7 is an independent, member-based organization actively encouraging the adoption of standards of healthcare information communication in India. HL7 India is the accredited International Affiliate of Health Level Seven International (HL7 International) for India.  After a successful FHIR Connectathon … JOIN HL7 India FHIR Connectathon 2021 by HL7India Connectathon Organising Committee Read More ..read more

BACKGROUND KARKINOS HEALTHCARE (KH) is desirous to build an end-to-end technology driven oncology focused managed healthcare platform where almost no person is deprived of care either by lack of access or by affordability. The design and delivery will be through bespoke solutions for cancer care, as a one stop shop in experience, addressing core market … Building a Purpose Driven Digital Oncology Platform to Deliver World Class Cancer Care by R. Venkataramanan, Founder CEO, @karkinoshealthcare Read More ..read more

#Gamification in #digitalhealth– are we really using gaming concepts the way they should be? what are the techniques being used? what are the limitations and what is the way forward? … ⏩Introduction⏩ Understanding patient behaviors and using this understanding to develop and titrate an intervention has gained a lot of traction in the past few … Gamification in Digital Health: Are we there yet? Read More ..read more

What’s the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear the phrase ‘employee wellness’? Chances are you’re thinking of physical fitness, exercise, healthy eating, and prevention/management of lifestyle diseases like hypertension, diabetes, etc. But an essential component that we seem to lose sight of is employees’ emotional wellness.  Puneet Manuja, co-Founder and COO, … What’s the cost of ignoring your employees’ emotional wellness to your organization? Puneet Manuja, co-Founder of YourDOST answers Read More ..read more

The onset of the Coronavirus pandemic has completely thrown school health programs out of gear. Lockdowns over the last 2 years have affected most school-based health programs. The silver lining here is that there were health-tech companies who had already forayed into the space of providing digitally-enabled care programs/platforms to school children. These platforms were … Health-tech startups focus on riveting children’s health screening programs through digital platforms Read More ..read more

Imaging procedures are of great value in the COVID-19 pandemic when the question of assessment of suspected cases and determination of the course of the disease arises. While a multitude of radio diagnostic tools is employed, the role of X‑ray imaging in COVID-19 infection has distinct importance. This post by Navjot Singh, President – Medical … The distinct feature of X-ray technology in COVID-19 diagnostics, by Navjot Singh, President – Medical Imaging, Trivitron Healthcare  Read More ..read more

ISRO may have sown the seed of telemedicine in India, but it was the Coronavirus-caused pandemic that propelled the widespread adoption of telemedicine and made it an irrefutable need for the present and the future care delivery methods and one that could be exploited to achieve sustainable healthcare solutions for our country’s semi-urban and rural … These last mile telehealth enablers travail to deliver care despite digital infrastructure challenges Read More ..read more

I am happy to bring my monthly newsletter to the HCitexpert Blog from this month onwards. In this edition of my newsletter, I reflect upon the learnings from the COVID innovations that proved to be marginally useful at the most, followed by regulatory changes being rolled out in EU with the advent of MDR. There … Things & Thinks XXIII Read More ..read more

Ashvini Danigond, Executive Director & CEO, Manorama Infosolutions is quite a revelation. Interacting with her means being enlightened on the varied aspects and nuances of new-age technology adoption in healthcare and its deployment in a patient-centric value-driven healthcare delivery system. In this interaction with Anusha Ashwin, Consulting Editor, HCITExpert Blog, Ashvini shares her purview on … Cloud computing services play a big part in addressing the needs of rural India’s fragmented healthcare ecosystem: Ashvini Danigond, ED & CEO, Manorama Infosolutions Read More ..read more