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The next major opportunity for Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Indian healthcare lies in remote patient monitoring, OT/ICU optimisation, and post-discharge chronic disease management, a report said on Tuesday. The joint report by Bain & Company and HealthQuad, titled 'AI in Indian Healthcare Delivery', reveals that Indian healthcare providers are shifting AI from experimental testing to real-world applications. Healthcare providers are deploying AI to reduce administrative burdens on clinicians, the study identified connected clinical care as the significant forward-looking opportunity, currently limited by a 35 per cent electronic medical record (EMR) adoption rate. "The next phase of adoption will be shaped by providers' ability to bring value, deployability and trust together -- not simply by access to more advanced AI models," Dhruv Sukhrani, Head of Bain & Company's Healthcare & Life Sciences practice in India, said. India's healthcare infrastructure is ...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said the country has worked to make quality healthcare more affordable and accessible in the past 12 years, and the government will keep working on all such initiatives to build a healthy India. Modi also said the government feels proud when "India is known as the nation with the world's largest healthcare programme, Ayushman Bharat, which provides top-quality healthcare to the most vulnerable". "Over the last 12 years, India has worked to make quality healthcare more affordable and accessible," he said in a post on X. The prime minister said other efforts like PM Bharatiya Jan Aushadhi Pariyojana have made medicines, stents and knee implants affordable, and this has helped many people. At the same time, he said, medical education has also become more accessible to people due to more institutions and seats being available. "We will keep building on this ground covered so far in order to build a healthy India," he said. The 'MyGov India', a .
Startup baby products maker Baby Forest is targeting tie-ups with premium babycare hospitals to open about 100 kiosk type stores as part of its sales network expansion strategy, according to its Founder and CEO, Gagan Agarwal. The Noida-headquartered firm, which has a range of ayurveda-based premium baby skincare products along with other items for infants and kids, is targeting a revenue of Rs 250 crore in the next five years, Agarwal told PTI. The company had started with independent stores in malls in the National Capital and Bengaluru. "After having three mall stores, we decided one more strategy, to have a kiosk type store in premium baby care hospital," Agarwal said, adding the company now has kiosk type stores in hospitals such as Motherhood Noida and Artemis Gurgaon, among others. "We are looking forward for about 100 such stores in hospitals, only in the hospitals," he said. Explaining the rationale behind the strategy, Agarwal said,"What we feel is somehow the starting .
Kerala Health Minister Veena George on Sunday said the state government has issued an order approving the implementation of Universal Health Coverage to ensure health protection for all sections of society. In a Facebook post, the minister said the scheme was formulated to provide health coverage to people who are not included in existing programmes such as the Karunya Arogya Suraksha Padhathi (KASP), Karunya Benevolent Fund, MEDISEP and other insurance schemes. The decision to launch the "Health Protection for All" project was taken following discussions and studies held at various levels over the past one year, based on the direction of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, she said. The matter was also discussed during the Vision 2031 review meetings, and the scheme is expected to bring relief to lakhs of families who are not members of any treatment assistance programme, the minister added. George said around 10 years ago, the treatment assistance provided by the government was only
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said healthcare should be accessible, available and affordable to all and that the Ayushman Bharat scheme is already fulfilling this vision for crores of families across India. In his address after launching projects worth over Rs 2,700 crore here, he said the Central government included Puducherry under the special assistance for capital investment scheme meant only for states. This move benefits the people of the Union territory by way of better infrastructure including better roads. He said: "A strong, empowered youth is the foundation for growth. We are working to support their dreams. At NIT Karaikal, the new Dr APJ Abdul Kalam engineering block and modern hostel facilities will strengthen technical education for many students." Also, he pointed out that infrastructure upgrades have been done in Pondicherry University as well. Furthermore, he said: "When I came here earlier, I had given the mantra of BEST Puducherry. BEST means Business,