Indian healthcare ready to go to the next stage

Fuelled by rising challenges like Covid-19, the Health Tech sector is leveraging emerging technologies, advanced analytics, and diverse data to transform healthcare.

- Ashok Pandey

Healthcare/HealthTech startups in India are currently vertical-focused. Many digital healthcare startups are getting merged or acquired by larger players to expand their services to provide holistic healthcare under one umbrella. The expectation of the customer is changing as they experience these services. Consequently, we will see a lot of traditional healthcare players adopting technology to serve their users.

The current Tech/Trends

Implementing the lessons of the pandemic with digital transformation to manage beyond peak demand, remote treatment for routine procedures and ailments, and productivity enhancement for the sector are the key tech trends currently. These include:

Telemedicine: Nearly every hospital implemented a version of telemedicine during the pandemic. Doctors were able to manage a higher patient load with lesser work stress while patients were freed from long waiting time for their turn.

Patient Health data: Big Data and analytics are allowing organisations to implement patient CRM thus creating life-long value for patients and prevention of critical issues. This is also creating higher patient confidence for elective and preventive procedures.

Smart Document Transformation with eSignatures: The complete patient record from diagnosis to admission to treatment to discharge are a digitally automated workflow enabling complete index and audit trail.

Private/Hybrid Cloud: Patient information privacy is extremely important and cloud technologies have long proven their capability in ensuring the same.

Health Tech intervention across Preventive, Diagnostic, Curative, Rehabilitative, and Palliative stages of patients is driving improved recovery.