Indian Healthcare: Stricter Mandates for Improved Oversight

Indian healthcare sees stricter mandates, data management and technology adoption as top priorities. This is because the disease profile of India is changing from communicable to non-communicable diseases.Long-term care should be a priority. In this context, increasing insurance coverage and focusing on preventive care becomes paramount, experts said at a round table on Health Technologies for a Healthy New India organized by the global engineering organization Institution of Engineering and Technology.The discussion was moderated by Rajaneesh Kini, CTO, Cyient and featured Girish Raghavan - VP, Digital Platforms | Director, India Technology Center, GE Healthcare South Asia; Dr. Satya Vadlamani, Chairman and CEO, Murali Krishna Pharma; Hema Jagota - Director, Clinical Solutions , Elsevier India; Amit Ananpara, Managing Director, Innoplexus Consulting Services, Board Member, and Suresh Kumar R, Vice President, Product Design, Providence.“Unlike other European countries, the hospital is not the custodian of the data - patients must give their consent. Therefore, patients must be educated about the value of their data and informed that the state is the custodian of their data. One must also to inform them that the data will be secure and anonymous,” said Ananpara.According to Raghavan, the biggest challenge we are currently facing is the availability of trained doctors and technology professionals in the 2nd and 3rd tier cities. Access to trained professionals must be democratized across the county. In addition, there is an urgent need to improve clinical outcomes. Central to this problem is the lack of information to enable doctors to make the right decisions, and the growing workload of doctors increases the potential for errors. The integration of technical solutions is the key to solving both problems.