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'We Aim To Make Quality Primary Healthcare Accessible In India At An Affordable Price'

Manasije Mishra, MD, Indian Health Organisation & Aetna India, in an interaction with Prathiba Raju, elaborates on how vHealth, an integrated primary care ecosystem, can play a crucial role in improving healthcare delivery

CCU To Break-Even For Any New Territory In Three Months

Rajiv Mathur, Founder, Critical Care Unified, elucidates on the need to provide home healthcare services in an organised and structured manner. He also shares his start-up’s objectives and strategic plans to fill the gap in a conversation with Mansha Gagneja

Carestream Receives Best Radiology Company Of The Year Award

According to Sushant Kinra, MD, Carestream Health India, with this honour, the company will strive to provide superior products and services to the clients

Hospital Pharmacies A Boost To Profit Margins

Hospital pharmacies are business critical to any hospital. Investing in its upliftment will ensure sustainable RoI

Antibiotic Apocalypse

A spectre of untreated infectious diseases is looming large over humanity with the growing incidence of antibiotic resistance

Fear Of Entering Into A ‘Post-Antibiotic' Era

A spectre of untreated infectious diseases is looming large over humanity with the growing incidence of antibiotic resistance

The Recent Re-branding Effort highlights the integral role sustainability plays in the Sealed Air Identity

Sealed Air’s Diversey Care as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has recently launched an access to soap programme in partnership with Doctors for You, a humanitarian organisation. Himanshu Jain, MD&VP, Indian Sub-Continent, Sealed Air, explains the strategy behind the programme and impact achieved so far.

Modi Medicare Introduces Medmammo: An Independent FFDM Mammography Workstation

Med Mammo is a mammography diagnostic workstation which combines ease of use and high performance features. 

Sysmex Partec: Excellence in flow cytometry

Amardeep Gupta, Business Manager, Partec, Sysmex India gives an overview on how Sysmex Partec provides excellent automated cell analysis tools with higher precision and more affordability than ever before

Healthcare - Pharma & Medical Devices Summit & Excellence Awards 2017 Held In Mumbai

The event deliberates on key pertinent issues, challenges and opportunities in pharma and medical devices industry

First National Health Conclave On NCD Held In New Delhi

Key stakeholders in healthcare deliberated on knowledge innovation, quality improvement, policy regulations and human resource development with regard to chronic care diseases

Awareness On Various Cardiac Issues Is Dismal In Our Country

Renowned cardiologist and recipient of Padma Bhushan award, Dr TS Kler, recently took charge as the Chairman of the PSRI Heart Institute and heads its Electrophysiology Programme. In a candid chat with Prathiba Raju, he divulges his plans to transform PSRI Institute into a centre of excellence for cardiac care

Carestream Wins Award For Reducing Energy Consumption At Its Colorado Manufacturing Facility

Windsor plant trimmed energy use by 5.4 percent in two years

Cytecare Introduces 3-d Imaging Technology For Breast Cancer Screening

3D mammography is a special kind of mammogram that uses several low dose X-rays obtained at different angles to create multiple images or sequential slices

Could The Gorakhpur Tragedy Been Averted?

CAG report had revealed irregularities in Baba Raghav Das (BRD) Medical College, Uttar Pradesh By Prathiba Raju

Breast Cancer: Early Diagnosis Is Everything

Ing Juergen Heckel, VP, Medical Business Sales and Marketing, EIZO Corporation, elaborates on how breast cancer can be cured with quality medical grade monitors

Tackling Doctor Crunch In Public Health

Despite several efforts, India still struggles with a severe shortage of doctors, especially in the rural areas. An analysis of the current situation and ways to solve the issue.

Humanitarian Action And Public Health In India

Leena Menghaney,South Asia Regional Coordinator,MSF’s Access Campaign,explains how the Nobel Peace Prize winning organisation’s work on developing treatment models for DR-TB,kala azar, malaria and HIVco-infection with other diseases has encouraged India’s Ministry of Health to re-evaluate policies which impact access to quality treatment in these disease areas.

'Government Of Maharashtra Has Always Been Encouraging The PPP Model In Healthcare'

In a wide-ranging interview, Dr Vijay Satbir Singh, Additional Chief Secretary, Health, Government of Maharashtra, talks about various health initiatives of the state like the upcoming new Vision 2030 document on health, a new nutrition policy and a partnership with the software giant Microsoft to boost IT in the state in an exclusive interaction with Prathiba Raju

'Our Ambition Is To Reach Up To 1.6 Million People By 2018'

healthi, a fast growing digital preventive health startup has grown 9x in the first two years of its operations. Rekuram Varadharaj, Co-Founder and COO, healthi talks about the company’s vison, its business model, various initiatives, tie ups with Government of India and more, in an interaction with Prathiba Raju

'Our Intent Is To Provie Quality Medicines At An Affordable Price'

Biplab Chatterjee, CEO, Bureau of Pharma PSUs of India (BPPI), shares his plans in scaling up the Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Jan Aushadhi Pariyojana (PMBJP) and promoting generic medicines across the country. In an interaction with Prathiba Raju, he touches upon important aspects such as procurement methods, their strategy for expansion and consumer awareness

'Indian Doctors (in the US) Still Face A Glass Ceiling In Academic Promotions, Institutional Hierarchies'

Dr Suresh Reddy, Vice President, Association of American Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI), explains to Viveka Roychowdhury how his mission is to bring distinctive contributions from India to American medicine while championing the challenges faced by the Indian-origin medical fraternity in the US

Ayurveda undergoes a renaissance

Understanding the harmful effects of chemicals, the modern consumer inclines toward the traditional Indian science. Arjun Vaidya, CEO, Dr Vaidya’s, shares insights about the changing trends and new age products in conversation with Mansha Gagneja.

VR Labs trending in healthcare

Virtual reality is not only limited to gaming, this innovation is a leading trend in healthcare. The Centre for Advanced Design in Engineering Training (CADET) VR Lab in Deakin University, Australia, facilitates automatic virtual environment with a computer-aided design which gives hands-on experience to training junior doctors and midwives in a virtual world. Professor Guy Littlefair, Pro Vice-Chancellor Industry Development at Deakin University, reveals more in an interaction with Prathiba Raju.

Affordable pricing strategy is our USP

Suresh Vazirani, Founder,Transasia Bio-Medicals shares his views on the Indian In Vitrodiagnostic market (IVD) and talks about how his company has successfully earned a major market share within the emerging IVD markets of the world, in a conversation with Raelene Kambli.

'We Are Working In The Direction Of Citizen Empowerment Through Information Dissemination'

Government of India’s National eHealth Authority (NeHA) will accelerate adoption of electronic health records (EHR) of patients. It will provide a well-connected ICT platform that can inter-operate across healthcare providers, both in public and private sectors, without compromising on patients’ confidentiality, informs Jitendra Arora, Director (eHealth), MoHFW, in a tete-a-tete with Prathiba Raju.

Role Of RPA In Improving Healthcare And Insurance Industries

Optimised RPA drives a faster, more impactful business outcome and RoI, believes Ram Mohan Natarajan, Senior Vice President – Business Transformation, HGS. In an interview with Raelene Kambli, he speaks of its relevance for healthcare organisations

There Is Certainly An Increased Prospect Of Enhanced Cooperation Between The Two Countries

Netherlands, being the fifth largest FDI investor in India had recently deliberated on working together on the National Action Plan on AMR. The discussion was part of the recent visit of the Dutch government to strike business partnerships in the healthcare and pharma sector between the two countries. Dr Nupur Kohli, Founder Director, Netherlands-India Information Services, NIIS Health, elaborates on the synergies between the countries and how it was provide impetus to India, in an interaction with Prathiba Raju

Quality Healthcare And Beyond – PSRI Perspective

Dr Dipak Shukla, CEO, PSRI Hospital, gives an overview of how PSRI provides quality

Universal Health(Coverage) Could Be Game Changer For Med Devices Sector

Swaminathan Jayaraman, Chairman, Vascular Concepts, in an interaction with Viveka Roychowdhury, elaborates on the turning points of Vascular Concepts and how it has helped form the foundation for the growth of the medical devices sector in India