Archive for April, 2010
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Apr 29, 2010
3 CommentsWhat Poor Countries Can Teach Rich Ones About Health Care
by Vijay Govindarajan and S. Manikutty (Source :Harvard Business Review) At first glance, it is hard to imagine how innovations from poor countries could provide much help in solving the cost and quality problems plaguing health-care delivery in rich countries like the United States. While it is easy to understand why a poor man would want...
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Apr 27, 2010
No CommentsWhere India’s healthcare solutions could come from.(Author-Jay Srinivasan)
As with most parameters within the Indian economy these days, the health care industry is huge but that doesn’t tell you much. The fact is that health care in India is a broken system whose fault lines are fast being papered over by the rapidity of change, influx of big capital, drive of entrepreneurship and...
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Apr 26, 2010
4 CommentsCorruption and Medical Education
The shocking revelation of the corruption that MCI Chief Ketan Desai , was arrested for as he demanded 2 crores to grant permission to a college which had been deemed unsuitable to provide medical education by MCI’s own inspection committee poses serious questions on the functions of the...
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Apr 17, 2010
2 CommentsNeed for Compact Hospital Campuses
During last two days I visited the Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital campus in New Delhi. Before that, I had visited 3 large Medical College campuses in Andhra Pradesh whilst working for a PPP assignment, and also the Goa Medical College campus to study its infrastructure. Most campuses have large area running into 40 –...
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Apr 13, 2010
1 CommentCost of Healthcare v/s Price
It was interesting to read an article this morning about the difference in the cost of health care across cities in India. Whilst Mumbai was the most expensive among the bigger cities, Kolkata appeared the cheapest. Most prices were taken from Insurance databases and hence would be authentic. What makes this difference when the cost...
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Apr 12, 2010
1 CommentNeglected Patient’s Rights
It is quite ironic that hospitals, constructed at such high cost, eventually end up neglecting the most important person for whom the entire facility was built – the PATIENT. Just a few days back, I had a close relative admitted in an up-market Tertiary Care Hospital in Mumbai and experienced this neglect first hand. The...
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Apr 09, 2010
19 CommentsAn Interesting Read!
The Card Reads You (Source:Outlook.com) Smart cards help BPL families avail cashless treatment in hospitals Lola Nayar What’s Working… Cashless facility for hospital care, medicine for BPL families Ensures one-point diagnosis, treatment with empanelled hospitals Fixed charges for procedures reduces chances of fleecing Empanelled private hospitals help ease burden on state ones *** …And What’s...
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Apr 08, 2010
2 CommentsSCARCITY OF TEACHING FACULTY
The recent move by the Maharashtra Government to increase the age of retirement for Medical Professors or Medical College Teachers from 58 years to 62 years is surely a welcome move. Even otherwise, most Doctors work at least till the age of 65 years. This will definitely help us to tackle the growing problem of...
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Apr 07, 2010
1 CommentOn World Health Day…..
Today is World Health Day and all the newspapers are carrying news on various aspects of global health. The most relevant article I read was by Dr Devi Shetty, Chairman of Narayan Hrudalaya Group of Hospitals who has been promoting insurance based health care for the masses. He started with the Yashaswini scheme in Karnataka,...
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Apr 06, 2010
2 CommentsCan Telemedicine Really Work ???
Today’s Times of India carries a full page article on Indian Hospitals providing telemedicine services to hospitals in Africa. What crosses my mind is why are we focusing on Africa when we need same services to penetrate into India’s hinterland. There have been isolated centres of excellence of using this innovative technology by some hospitals...
