Indian Healthcare

Datanomics: India's health spending tilts towards private hospitals

Nearly $10 billion in global private equity has flowed into Indian hospital chains in five years, underscoring the growing role of private healthcare in meeting demand

Pharma sector must move from scale to trust to gain global edge: Report

Grant Thornton-Ficci report flags data integrity, supply-chain resilience and digital capability as the next tests for India's global pharma ambitions

Wall Street's $10 billion India hospital bet sparks a fight over bills

Blackstone, KKR, TPG, General Atlantic and other global investors have spent about $10 billion buying stakes in Indian hospital chains over the past five years

RML recalls 10 drug batches used to treat seizures, heart conditions

Three tablet and five injectable batches failed analytical tests, while two more were found physically defective; hospital says no severe adverse effects reported

AI application in Indian healthcare rising but adoption uneven: Report

Hospitals are using AI mainly for operational gains, but the next phase of adoption will require stronger digital infrastructure, workflow integration and clinical oversight, finds new report

AI in healthcare: Remote monitoring next growth frontier, says report

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 ...

India's job postings rebound in July, ending three-month hiring decline

Indeed data shows India's job postings rebounded in July, ending a three-month decline, with healthcare roles surging

Indians are living longer: 80 years of India's health transformation

Eight decades of falling mortality, improving maternal and child survival, and expanding healthcare have added years to Indian lives, while creating new health challenges

India's hospital chains grow bigger even as expansion squeezes margins: EY

Rising occupancies, more complex treatments and steady patient volumes are driving growth across hospitals and diagnostics. The next challenge is managing costs while adding thousands of new beds

Motilal Oswal sector of the week: Healthcare; Max, Global Health top picks

Indian healthcare sector remains well positioned for sustained long-term growth, supported by structural demand, expanding hospital infra, higher healthcare spends, and favourable demographic trends.

India known for world's largest healthcare programme, says PM Modi

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 .

Datanomics: Private hospital bills surge tenfold over the past 3 decades

For the first time in three decades, rural patients at government hospitals spent more than their urban counterparts in 2025

Healthcare stocks shine in weak market; Metropolis, Thyrocare jump upto 14%

Metropolis Healthcare share hit a 52-week high of ₹574.45, surging 14 per cent in trade. Thyrocare soared 12 per cent to ₹526.10, while Vijaya Diagnostic Centre gained 7 per cent to ₹1,298.45.

Hospital bills covered, care Isn't: The blind spot in planning for parents

Health insurance isn't enough: The hidden costs of caring for ageing parents decoded

Responsibility, trust crucial for AI systems: Anthropic India head

Anthropic bets on responsible AI and trust-led development to scale in India, as demand for safer, reliable large language models grows across enterprises

Health cover hits 50% yet Indian households pay ₹34,000 per hospitalisation

From ₹34,000 hospital bills to rising lifestyle diseases, NSS data shows healthcare is now a core money risk for Indian families

Can periods really sync with your friends? Here's what science says

Ever noticed your period arriving at the same time as your best friend's? Doctors say what looks like menstrual syncing may actually be coincidence driven by natural cycle variations

Workplace health crisis: 1 in 4 men aged 31-35 show pre-diabetes, BP risk

77,000 insurance claims and 12,000 health check-ups across 400,000 covered lives reveal surging lifestyle health risks among India's young workforce

Baby Forest eyes tie-up with premium hospitals for network expansion

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 govt approves universal health coverage for wider healthcare access

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