Opinion

Should the government dial back its recent policies on healthcare delivery? How can the burden on hospital administration be eased without compromising the patients? Dr  Ashish Banerji, Head Hospital Administration for Symbiosis University Hospital, and Associate Professor at Symbiosis Institute of Health Sciences The Indian private healthcare sector is undergoing momentous changes, and the pace […]

By : Viren Shetty, Director and SVP of Strategy at Narayana Hrudayalaya Ltd In 1936, Columbia sociology Professor Robert K Merton published a seminal paper entitled, “The Unanticipated Consequences of Purposive Social Action”. He wrote about the ‘imperious immediacy of interest’, in which government legislation that desperately seeks one outcome, wilfully ignores the unintended consequences […]

Guest Author: Ramesh Bhat, Expert: Healthcare Finance, New Delhi An alumnus of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the University of Delhi. Researched and taught corporate finance and health finance for 37 years at IIM Ahmedabad, University of North Carolina at Chapel-Hill, IIM Udaipur, IMI New Delhi, NMIMS Mumbai, Institute of Chartered Accounts […]