Archive for March, 2010
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Mar 31, 2010
5 CommentsQuality of Hospital Bed Assets
I was discussing an assignment with a private equity fund manager with respect to the Indian Healthcare scenario, and the fact that the most common denominator used to indicate deficit facilities is the bed to population ratio. It is quite surprising that Eastern India has a better bed to population ratio than say, central and...
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Mar 30, 2010
2 CommentsFrom The Front Line….
Apollo Hospitals\’ Shobana Kamineni: \’India Is a Nascent Country in Terms of Health Care\’ Ms Shobana Kamineni,COO Apollo Group in an interview at Wharton Business School Philadelphia, on the emerging,complex and dynamic :Indian Healthcare Challenge. -Happy...
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Mar 29, 2010
10 Comments5 Steps of Hospital Planning….
Most clients begin our interactions with a one standard question: “How do we go about setting up a hospital?” My answer is simple, and it is exactly what I teach in the classroom. No matter what the size of the hospital, big or small, all hospital facilities will need the same 5 step approach: Step...
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Mar 27, 2010
4 CommentsThe Art of Managing Execution of Hospital Projects
Over a cocktail dinner with friends, I found myself revisiting my consulting journey since I began HOSMAC and the question popped up: What was the most important learning I have had in the past 15 years? Well, I had never thought about it that way and took me a while to answer but suddenly, I...
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Mar 26, 2010
2 CommentsNEED TO GO GREEN….
My interest in green hospitals got triggered to a whole new level after I saw “An Inconvenient Truth”, the acclaimed documentary by former US Vice President Al Gore. I know that film well; my son edited it and required me to sit through the editing exercist at least 50 times before we finalized it to...
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Mar 25, 2010
4 CommentsImbibing Technology can be a Boon
During the recently concluded Meditec Clinika exhibition in Chennai, I had an opportunity to visit a large 1200 beds private hospital, which is using Radiology imaging services (RIS) and PACS since a year. I was introduced to a young lady radiologist, all of maybe 30 years of age (guessing), who was using the technology with...
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Mar 24, 2010
4 CommentsPPP Opportunities in Healthcare
Hi Guys ! Considering that the India’s Healthcare Industry is growing at a fast pace and is exploding all around us, I thought of adding my bit through this Web Medium. I intend to populate this BLOG with my views gathered over 15 years of consulting experience and would be keen to make this a...
