The healthcare industry in India is growing at a tremendous pace with increasing expenditure by public as well private players. During 2008-20, the market is expected to record a CAGR of 16.5 per cent. The total industry size is expected to touch $160 billion by 2017 and $280 billion by 2020. In other words, a healthcare investment in India today ought to be a slam dunk opportunity. To know more, do read.
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As India emerges from a second COVID wave of extreme ferocity, the overwhelming reaction has been one of disbelief. How could things have gotten so bad so quickly? Not so very long ago, all had seemed completely normal to the extent that all routine activities including sporting events, weddings, movie theatre screenings etc had been resumed.
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The word stroke, similar to the term heart attack, has a forbidding connotation in our minds. It delivers up the image of a life threatening event, with dismal consequences that include disability, paralysis or even death. Magnify this with the national statistics on stroke and the concerns can only intensify – given that stroke is one of the leading causes of death and disability in India. And that the incidence (new cases per year) and prevalence (total number of cases in the community) of stroke in India actually exceed those in developed, high-income countries. To learn more, click the below link.
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While on the subject of quality assurance and peer review, one observation I have is that interobserver variability is a real thing that critically affects the practice of radiology. Nowhere is this more impactful than in peer review and QA. While teleradiology practices have raised the bar across the radiology community given the higher degree
In today’s competitive healthcare environment, running a diagnostic imaging center is not easy. Apart from the high equipment cost at startup, operational and ongoing financial challenges abound. A technology innovation that can assist owners of diagnostic centers in optimizing their center’s performance is teleradiology. This article lists the typical scenarios in which owners of diagnostic
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Telemedicine is the application of information technology and telecommunications networks for the purpose of medical diagnosis and therapy from remote locations. A host of recent technology innovations have made it possible for telemedicine to expand its reach across every medical speciality– its usage in radiology is called “Teleradiology.” Radiology incorporates the diverse methods used in medical science
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As the world transforms itself in response to the COVID crisis, healthcare companies, being at the forefront of the battle against the virus, have also been forced to adapt. In our own organisation which provides teleradiology reporting services and technology to healthcare institutions around the world, we have had to make rapid changes as well, and
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Since its emergence at the end of last year, the Coronavirus has been continuously at the forefront of our consciousness and mind space. Reflecting on its impact on our collective psyche, it struck me that our psychological response to this microbe and its effects parallels what the eminent psychologist Elizabeth Kubler-Ross in the late 1960s
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In the words of Martin Luther King “Only in the darkness can you see the stars”. The Covid-19 pandemic continues to loom like a specter over our country, and the world. Despite weeks of lockdown the numbers of new infections continues to rise or remain static. The only difference seems to be that the geography
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As recently as July 30, 2020, Dr Anthony Fauci went on record saying with typical understatement, that the conflicting guidance on mask-wearing (in response to the US president’s tweets on the subject) was ‘not helping the situation’. Even at this advanced stage of the coronavirus pandemic, the fact that the importance of one of the
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