Cancer Treatment in India – Should Patients Know About Their Condition?
Cancer is considered as one of the most fatal chronic health complications to affect people worldwide. To make it worse, leading researchers and medical specialists suggest that they have learned about a common, yet intriguing misconception about cancer treatment in...
Top 10 health questions America asked Dr. Google in 2019
The first thing we do when in doubt is "google it" According to the Heath Vice President of Google, the searches related to health purposes amounted to about 70,000 per minute. It was also noted that about 7% of the search engine's searches were health-related. He...
Education’s Role In Influencing New Healthcare Models
Education plays an important role to prepare the students and the citizens of a nation and helps them to keep up with the new trends, skills, and market. So education models keep on developing and evolving and the different industries that apply these models are ever...
Is Healthcare Cybersecurity Lurking Over Your Organization Too?
Of late, cybersecurity has become a growing concern for the healthcare industry as well. Especially, in the last few years, a significant number of IT security incidents have left many leading healthcare organizations in wary of their patient records. According to...
Where Does The Indian Medical Imaging System Stand?
If we try to gauge the performance of the healthcare industry in India, we can decipher that there has been rapid progress, especially in the last decade ending 2019. However, as the popular saying goes, “there is no rose without a thorn”, there are a few bottlenecks...
Scenario of Healthcare in India 2019 – A Look At The Year Gone By
As we step into 2020, a new year, and a new decade, let’s take a look at how 2019 fared for our very own pharmaceutical industry. From what the experts suggest, the year 2019 has been an extraordinarily action-packed one for both - pharma sector and healthcare in...
Technology-Induced Healthcare Transformation In 2020
Technological advancements are progressively incorporated into the healthcare system for a healthier tomorrow. The primary aim of technology is not to make things complicated for the stakeholders. It is designed in a way to allow the user a comfortable experience...
Habits that Surgeons Practice to Perform Better
We all have something that we consider lucky or practice for good luck or to perform better. Before an exam, a student may say a small prayer or wear a particular pair of pants. A chief may have a "lucky knife" or apron. A teacher may start the day with a small...
Nutrition’s role in critical care – the India story
In 2012, 70000 ICU beds were available to people who needed critical care in and around the country. With over 5 million needing these services annually, the need for more and better facilities is one that will not go away. With between 20-30% of a hospital’s budget...
The Complications Arising With Diabetes Today
India is known for a lot of good things but diabetes is definitely not one of them. Now we all know how diabetes is basically is a disease that occurs when the blood glucose or blood sugar of a person is too high and it affects, an approximate of 285 million people...
App to help victims report sexual assault in India
Rape Culture and sexual assaults and violence are very much common in India and often many of the sexual violence cases go unreported because sexual assault victims choose not to come forward about the trauma including guilt, embarrassment, fear of being judged and...
WHO develops standardised terminologies for Ayurveda
The World Health Organization (WHO) has developed certain standardized terminologies for the Ayurveda, Unani and Siddha systems. This step is taken by WHO as a part of their global strategy to strengthen the quality, safety and effectiveness of traditional and...
Increasing number of patients visiting AYUSH healthcare facilities
The initiatives of the Government to push Ayush through different programs and incentives have generated beneficial results. Last year, atleast 17.74 crores patients visited the Ayush healthcare facilities, 17.27 crores and 15.94 crores respectively in 2016-17 and...
Over 10% Adults are detected with mental health problems
Recently, the Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan informed Lok Sabha that about 10.6 percent of adults above the age of 18 have mental health problems. The government had conducted the National Mental Health Survey (NMHS) of India through the National Institute of...
Artificial Intelligence and patient data in healthcare
Advances in the arena of Artificial intelligence (AI) have begun to lay the groundwork for the implementation of AI in clinical decision-making. The next generation of data collection and analysis technologies will generate new needs for clinicians: they need to...
How the Healthcare Industry is going to change in 2020
As the healthcare industry grows and changes year by year, new systems are adopted and different types of challenges are tackled by the healthcare organizations and the government all over the world. Telehealth, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, virtual...
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