Manipal Health Enterprises to Acquire Kinder Women’s Hospital

Mayank Aggarwal, Business Analytics Director at Evernorth Health Services  Artificial intelligence in healthcare has reached a new level of maturity. Predictive models can now detect risks much earlier and help flag high-risk patients before they even come to clinic. Dashboards reveal patterns and anomalies in data that previously only analysts could unearth using weeks of work, and […]

Advances in AI, molecular testing and personalized therapies are dramatically improving survival, raising hopes that many patients could live significantly longer, and even be cured, in the coming decade. Lung cancer is undergoing a dramatic shift in India. While smoking continues to remain the single biggest risk factor, oncologists are witnessing a steady rise in […]

Dr. Pavan Yadav M V, Clinical Director & Senior Consultant – Interventional Pulmonology & Sleep Medicine, Associate Director – Lung Transplantation, KIMS Hospitals, Electronic City, Bengaluru  Sleep is not a restful state. Much of the brain’s most critical work is done when the body sleeps, consolidating memories, removing metabolic waste, controlling emotional reactions and prepping the neuronal circuits that will […]

Dr Kristin George, Consultant – Nephrologist & Renal Transplant, Aster Whitefield Hospital, Bengaluru.  When Maharashtra recently banned three cosmetic products, after they were found to contain unsafe levels of mercury, the move sparked fresh concerns about the hidden health risks lurking in some beauty products.  While mercury has long been associated with skin-lightening creams, doctors say the danger isn’t limited […]

India’s healthcare system is still largely built on perception, reputation, word of mouth and branding rather than hard evidence of how well patients actually recover. Drawing on global examples from the NHS, Sweden’s quality registries and ICHOM, as well as emerging Indian efforts like Ayushman Bharat’s value-based framework and outcomes reporting by Apollo and Narayana […]

As Chief of Marketing at Jaslok Hospital and Research Centre, Mr. Bhavesh Phopharia has a clear vantage point on one of the most important shifts in Indian healthcare today: the move from imported dependence to indigenous capability. With India’s med-tech market poised for strong growth and the country still sourcing the majority of its high-end […]