A healthy dose of digital for Apollo Hospitals
Apollo Hospitals is doubling down on its digital healthcare services by building a health super-app. The past year may have been the catalyst, but Apollo’s telehealth initiatives predate the pandemic.
Apollo Hospitals is doubling down on its digital healthcare services by building a health super-app. The past year may have been the catalyst, but Apollo’s telehealth initiatives predate the pandemic.
A gap between demand and supply is evident across all aspects of India’s healthcare sector. The shortage of local health professionals represents further evidence.
Covid-19 has made healthcare an important part of a nation's geopolitical strategy. But this has opened up the sector to cybersecurity threats. What we need is a vaccine against cyberattacks.
While Covid-19 reinvigorated the role of digital medical services, Meena Ganesh, managing director and CEO, Portea Medical, tells Fortune India that the pandemic has made her company “more dynamic”.
Overall, this Budget has many positives for the sector. Hopefully, there will be a few more mini Budgets going forward to fully accomplish the sector's growth potential.
After a long time, the Union Budget has brought back a renewed focus on healthcare and health infrastructure, which it aims to achieve through a slew of measures. The health industry is elated.
At the core of Budget 2021 lies the vision for a self-reliant, emerging India. And nowhere is this vision more evident than in the healthcare sector, which has just received an enormous boost.
When the history of the pandemic is written, credit would be given to many for battling the virus, but the maximum space would be devoted to the frontline workers. Here are some of those stories.
When the virus hit India, the country’s healthcare system came under the most intense scrutiny that it ever had. The system also saw some irreversible effects. Things might not be the same again.
Venture capital investment in healthtech hits $8.2 billion in the first quarter of 2020, the highest quarterly total on record, says Preqin; large deals continue to be made.