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Mr Anish Bafna, Secretary, NATHEALTH, CEO & MD, Healthium Medtech statement on 'Government announcement of a 500-crore new scheme for the Med-tech sector'

Mr Anish Bafna, Secretary, NATHEALTH, CEO & MD, Healthium Medtech statement on 'Government announcement of a 500-crore new scheme for the Med-tech sector'

Mr Abhay Soi, President of NATHEALTH and Chairman of Max Healthcare statement on ‘Government’s expansion of PMJAY to provide health coverage for all citizens aged 70’

The healthcare finance arsenal is designed to enable organisations to meet every person's needs and achieve positive patient outcomes. Proper and informed financial planning promotes operational efficiency, ensuring smooth day-to-day functioning, preparedness for unforeseen circumstances (highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic), and adherence to regulatory parameters

NATHEALTH statement on the Centre's decision to extend Ayushman health insurance coverage to individuals above 70

India is experiencing a demographic shift with an increasing elderly population. Senior living communities are emerging as an alternative care solution, offering independence, well-being, and social engagement. These communities provide tailored amenities and services while freeing residents from homeownership burdens. Government policies are crucial in fostering this sector's growth and ensuring seniors' quality of life.

​The decision to provide free treatment for citizens over 70 under the Ayushman Bharat scheme is crucial in addressing a significant gap in elderly healthcare coverage. A study shows that only 20% of those over 60 were covered by any health insurance or government schemes, leaving most elderly vulnerable to high out-of-pocket expenses and limited access to care.

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Initiatives like mandatory quality protocols related to service delivery along with stringent periodic audits by independent authorities will ensure execution and compliance to set standards across different models.

Joining Soi in the new leadership team are Ameera Shah, Promoter & MD of Metropolis Healthcare, as Senior Vice President and Dr. Sangita Reddy, Joint Managing Director of Apollo Hospitals Group, as Vice President.

NATHEALTH 10th Annual Summit 2024: How Will India’s Healthcare Evolve by 2047 and in What Way Can the Private Sector Contribute to This Progress

NATHEALTH 10th Annual Summit 2024: How Will India’s Healthcare Evolve by 2047 and in What Way Can the Private Sector Contribute to This Progress

NATHEALTH 10th Annual Summit 2024: How Will India’s Healthcare Evolve by 2047 and in What Way Can the Private Sector Contribute to This Progress

NATHEALTH 10th Annual Summit 2024: How Will India’s Healthcare Evolve by 2047 and in What Way Can the Private Sector Contribute to This Progress

NATHEALTH 10th Annual Summit 2024: How Will India’s Healthcare Evolve by 2047 and in What Way Can the Private Sector Contribute to This Progress

NATHEALTH 10th Annual Summit 2024: How Will India’s Healthcare Evolve by 2047 and in What Way Can the Private Sector Contribute to This Progress

NATHEALTH 10th Annual Summit 2024: How Will India’s Healthcare Evolve by 2047 and in What Way Can the Private Sector Contribute to This Progress

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare startups are rapidly emerging as leaders in health technology, leveraging AI, ML, IoT, VR, and blockchain to revolutionize their models. Prioritizing accuracy and efficiency, these startups focus on disruptive solutions, champion health equity, and enhance digital health literacy. The convergence of medical technology, AI, and workflow innovations is reshaping patient and clinician experiences. The transition involves collaboration between traditional and innovative approaches to collectively transform healthcare outcomes.

The increasing prevalence of health checkups presents an opportunity to identify emerging disease trends and implement targeted intervention.

A major challenge confronting healthcare startup is securing access to hospitals for testing, designing, and positioning their services.

The healthcare industry in India is rapidly progressing and advancing towards a new era of technologicalinnovation and possibilities, with MedTech at the helm of it all. Positioned as the vanguard of thistransformation, the concept of MedTech 2.0 heralds a significant shift in the healthcare landscape of the nation.

Shishir Agarwal, President and Managing Director, Terumo India & Secretary, NATHEALTH stresses that with initiatives like the Promotion of Research and Innovation in Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices (PRIP), India’s medtech sector is poised for continued growth and innovation

Digital solutions are also more equitable in nature enabling access to all.

Digital solutions are also more equitable in nature enabling access to all.

India is committed to achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) for all by 2030. For India to achieve this, it is essential that both private enterprises and the government come together.

10th NATHEALTH Annual Arogya Bharat Summit 2024 - Building Blocks and Role of Private Sector Ecosystem

10th NATHEALTH Annual Arogya Bharat Summit 2024 - Building Blocks and Role of Private Sector Ecosystem

10th NATHEALTH Annual Arogya Bharat Summit 2024 - Building Blocks and Role of Private Sector Ecosystem

Initiatives like mandatory quality protocols related to service delivery along with stringent periodic audits by independent authorities will ensure execution and compliance to set standards across different models.

National Essential Diagnostics List was first released in 2019 following World Health Organization recommendation. Industry has welcomed move to revise list as step towards ensuring better access.

Interim Budget 2024: NATHEALTH has urged the government to embark on transformative measures that prioritise bolstering healthcare infrastructure and making strategic investments to overcome supply-side constraints.

The industry leaders of the Indian healthcare and pharma sector sharing the wishlist for the upcoming Union Budget 2024- 2025, urge the union government to increase healthcare spending to 2.5 per cent of GDP and the rationalisation of the GST framework.

Continued investment in education will prove to be highly effective in increasing patient empowerment while at the same time raising awareness regarding data protection and respective practices in the healthcare system of India.

Jointly develop a white paper/ awareness module on patient safety outlining the best practices around consumer safety measures and conduct a series of expert sessions to disseminate this across healthcare caregivers and broader health system

As PE firms pour money into the sector from one side, the challenge of qualified staff continues on the other.

This article will detail the differences among the various healthcare industries and which metrics investors should follow before making an investment.

Dr Sanjib Pal, Founder and President, RAD365 talks about sewage tracing, the pivotal role of IoT sensors, and their collective influence in reshaping virus detection and the management of pandemics

A website “Choose Safer Healthcare” launched serving as a comprehensive resource hub for patients and citizens.

In a momentous move to promote and enhance patient safety and improving the healthcare quality, NATHEALTH, Healthcare Federation of India on the occasion of World Patient Safety Day signed a MoU with the National Accreditation Board for Hospitals and Healthcare Providers, a constituent Board of Quality Council of India, an autonomous body under Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India.

This article will detail the differences among the various healthcare industries and which metrics investors should follow before making an investment.

It is the practice of healthcare, while becoming more accurate and effective, has become extensively more complex. Just like in any other high-pressure, high-risk environment, safety checklists before procedures or surgeries go a long way in making sure that the right patient has the right diagnosis and gets the right treatment as it is prescribed and intended.

By implementing sustainable strategies within the healthcare sector, the industry has the chance to make a lasting impact on good health and climate protection. These new investments are essential and have the potential to create a positive feedback loop, promoting a healthier planet and a more resilient healthcare sector for generations to come.

The country’s healthcare sector is diverse and covers various domains, including clinical care, diagnostics, administration, and support services. The challenges faced by the sector are complex, ranging from inadequate infrastructure to a shortage of trained professionals.

Prashant Sharma, Managing Director, Charnock Hospital highlights the benefits of UHC, current challenges and road ahead.

As Indians become more health-savvy, the demand for quality healthcare is growing at a rapid pace. Therefore, each and every person working in a healthcare facility has a part to play in keeping patients safe. And patients must be equally invested in asking for the best quality of patient care from healthcare providers, writes Dr. Ashutosh Raghuvanshi, Managing Director and CEO at Fortis Healthcare.

Likely to be presented to Cabinet before being tabled in Parliament, latest version of draft bill aims to regulate, restrict or ban online sale of prescription drugs.

Hand hygiene alone, if implemented correctly, would prevent up to 60% of Hospital Acquired Infections.

Punjab Health Minister Balbir Singh on Friday extended an invitation to the corporate hospitals to collaborate with the government to provide quality healthcare services to people at subsidised and affordable prices.

Punjab Health Minister Balbir Singh on Friday extended an invitation to the corporate hospitals to collaborate with the government to provide quality healthcare services to people at subsidised and affordable prices.

Punjab Health Minister Balbir Singh on Friday extended an invitation to the corporate hospitals to collaborate with the government to provide quality healthcare services to people at subsidised and affordable prices.

Punjab Health Minister Balbir Singh on Friday extended an invitation to the corporate hospitals to collaborate with the government to provide quality healthcare services to people at subsidised and affordable prices.

The DPDP Bill signifies a pivotal shift in data processing practices, making it crucial for organisations to comprehend its provisions and ensure compliance.

Strong technology backbone, paving the way for smart labs that can handle the increasing demands at greater speed and lower cost should characterise the future of diagnostic labs.

Healthcare leaders have a responsibility to do everything they can to keep patient data safe.

With the rising burden of chronic diseases and the need for advanced diagnostics, moving from reactive to preventive care may help.

India has now recognised the importance of patient safety and is in the process of adopting a patient safety culture and numerous initiatives are being taken to address this issue.

With corridors filled with wounded passengers on stretchers, beds hastily added to accommodate patients rushed in, the Balasore district hospital resembles a war zone. Many of the injured have also been rushed to hospitals in Soro, Bhadrak, Jajpur and the SCB Medical College in Cuttack.

The six strategies of the National Medical Device Policy 2023, propose to augment the growth story of the medical devices industry in India and entail focus areas such as streamlining regulation, enabling infrastructure, facilitating R&D and innovation, inviting investments, facilitating skilled manpower and promoting the industry for exports

The policy push comes over and above the performance linked incentive schemes that are already underway in the sector

Dr. GSK Velu, Chairman, and MD of Trivitron Healthcare said that this policy will drive accelerated growth, promote innovation, and create new jobs in the sector.

India is also grappling with a shortage of pathologists and microbiologists. It takes immense effort to diagnose samples without the aid of technology which underlines the need to use the latest technology like Artificial Intelligence (AI) to speed up diagnosis and increase its scale. India has about 3 lakh medical testing laboratories but only 5,500 qualified MD pathologists.

Clear rules needed now for Rajasthan’s landmark bill, even as activists hope more States follow suit

While lauding the government for taking a step forward in the revision of CGHS rates, Dr Raghuvanshi, however, has called the revision "too little, too late." He said: "One of the major elements of the CGHS rate revision—the pricing of package services—remains unchanged, rendering the revision too little, too late."

Dissatisfied with the revision of rates for services provided by private healthcare outlets to CGHS beneficiaries‚ industry players are asking the government to go the whole hog

The decision will result in an increase in spending for the government from Rs 240 crore to Rs 300 crore

‘Diagnostic test prices have largely remained unchanged over five years, despite inflation’

Costly imports due to dollar appreciation and heating-up competition leave less room for price revision

While a perfect RTH/UHC Bill might be a Utopia, all stakeholders should learn from Rajasthan’s experience

The healthcare industry body also expressed fears of increased legal and criminal cases that could be lodged against doctors as a result of the new law.

Right to Health Bill passed by Ashok Gehlot says neither government nor private hospitals and clinics can refuse a person seeking emergency treatment, adding that the state government will bear the cost of the treatment provided by the hospital. The doctors however, have asked the government to define the term ‘emergency’ properly. The doctors working...

On Wednesday, healthcare providers body NATHEALTH's President, Dr Ashutosh Raghuvanshi in a statement spoke on the ongoing tussle between Rajasthan's government and the state's private doctors.

The bill raises significant questions that weigh in on private providers around operational viability, financial sustainability, patient privacy and the increased legal and criminal cases that will be lodged against doctors who are already victims of physical violence: Dr Ashutosh Raghuvanshi.

Health tech start-ups are revolutionizing the healthcare sector by designing and creating innovative medical technologies that are optimizing patient care outcomes, healthcare delivery systems, and reducing costs. The number of ventures in this sector has grown exponentially, from 452 in 2016 to nearly 90,000 in India today. There are over 8,000 health tech start-ups in India valued at around $2 billion and growing at a rate of almost 40%.

He takes charge from Dr. Shravan Subramanyam, erstwhile President of NATHEALTH during FY 2022-23. This was announced in the AGM post the 9th NATHEALTH Annual Summit 2023.

The report, Pathways to Scale Adoption of Digital Health in India, which was produced in association with consulting firm Arthur D Little, is based on a survey on 30 private healthcare providers. The report said that 93 per cent of the respondents agreed that digitalisation is beneficial for the healthcare ecosystem and 80 per cent recorded using digital tools for the most common use case, i.e., to register customer data (demographic and clinical).

The summit brought healthcare industry leaders and the government together to discuss, deliberate and find ways to improve the country's healthcare system.

The summit brought healthcare industry leaders and the government together to discuss, deliberate and find ways to improve the country's healthcare system.

The summit brought healthcare industry leaders and the government together to discuss, deliberate and find ways to improve the country's healthcare system.

The summit brought healthcare industry leaders and the government together to discuss, deliberate and find ways to improve the country's healthcare system.

Communication is a means of exchange of information, as also a method of sharing ideas. However, in health care, poor communication is a bane. Let's see how.

The country needs new healthcare models to ensure that medical treatment payouts are made for the right approaches and layouts.

The pharmaceutical industry on Wednesday hailed the Budget terming it a step in the right direction to promote research and innovation in the sector.

Private healthcare institutes raised concerns such as the government not increasing healthcare spending to 2.5 per cent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) concern and streamlining embedded indirect taxes like Goods and Service Taxes (GST) in the sector.

Healthcare stakeholders are dismayed that there was no increase in the budget allocation, no revision/reduction in GST, no tax exemption and missing out on the crucial aspect of universal health coverage.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented Union Budget 2023-2024 today.

The healthcare sector, particularly the public sector, still faces barriers, despite being one of the world's best. The Budget is an apt time to fix the loopholes.

Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance (IPA) Secretary General Sudarshan Jain outlined the sector's wish list for the 2018 Union Budget, noting that the domestic pharmaceutical industry is currently worth about $50 billion and hopes to increase to about $130 billion by 2030 and $450 billion by 2047.

Ideally, India should be spending at least 2.5- 3 per cent of its Gross Domestic Product on the healthcare system. Sadly, it does not. The healthcare sector and bodies affiliated with it have once again big expectations from the upcoming Union Budget.

By Amol Naikawadi. Although genetic testing is still a relatively new development in drug treatment, but this field is rapidly expanding considering the value proposition it provides.

Reinvention and innovation will be the key mantra for the Indian pharma industry in the New Year as the 'pharmacy of the world' looks to move from volume to value leadership, amid emerging challenges of inflation and pricing pressures in the global markets.

In its submission to the finance ministry on Wednesday , the industry body said that the healthcare sector has not been able to derive the benefits of the GST transition in comparison to other sectors. In fact, the embedded taxes in the sector have increased in the post-GST regime compared to pre-GST period, it noted.

The recommendations cover strengthening healthcare infrastructure across tier 2 and 3 geographies, investing in emergency healthcare delivery services and expanding testing infrastructure in the hinterland by accelerating capex spends, as per the statement it issued.

Reinvent and innovate will be the key mantra for the Indian pharma industry in the New Year as the 'pharmacy of the world' looks to move from volume to value leadership, amid emerging challenges of inflation and pricing pressures in the global markets.

Nathealth claims the reimbursements for completed treatments are not made on time, and in most cases, remain unpaid even for 2-3 years

There is growing awareness of the contribution healthcare technology companies can make, toward curtailing hospital costs and improving the quality of care. The winning combination of technology companies and hospital care providers can potentially expedite expansion of healthcare capacity and adoption of new technologies.

Healthcare industry body NATHEALTH on Wednesday sought rationalisation of GST and enhanced insurance coverage especially in smaller cities and towns in the upcoming Budget.

Healthcare industry body NATHEALTH on Wednesday sought rationalisation of GST and enhanced insurance coverage especially in smaller cities and towns in the upcoming Budget.

Short-term and long-term recommendations highlight the need for ease of doing business, uniform adoption of digital health, capacity building of healthcare workers and expanding insurance cover.

According to Lancet, AMR was linked to 1·27 million deaths in 2019. In 2016, the Review on AMR commissioned by the British government estimated that by 2050, AMR could claim 10 million lives or one life every three seconds globally.

Healthcare industry body NATHEALTH on Wednesday sought rationalisation of GST and enhanced insurance coverage especially in smaller cities and towns in the upcoming Budget.

In the short-term recommendations submitted to the government, NATHEALTH has highlighted the need of enhancing the role of the private sector in increasing the capacities of our healthcare professionals to address the shortage of healthcare professionals.

Nathealth - Healthcare Federation of India has submitted a comprehensive set of recommendations to the government for the Union Budget 2023-24 to address the current barriers for the private healthcare sector.

According to government data, there are 750–800 domestic medical device manufacturers in India, with an average investment of $2.3–2.7 million and an average turnover of $6.2-6.9 million.

Under the scheme, scheduled commercial banks were allowed to provide credit with interest rate, capped at 7.95 per cent per annum, for projects in the healthcare sector. A maximum of Rs 100 crore per project was to be disbursed.

Large private hospitals have expressed serious reservations over the removal of payment terms in a proposed agreement for empanelment with the Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS), saying this and other clauses will have a major impact on their ability to deliver seamless services.

In a move that should make setting up medical colleges easier, the apex medical regulator has proposed doing away with the requirement of such institutions having a full-fledged hospital that has been functional for a minimum of two years.

Only an estimated 2 percent of India’s hospitals with over 50 beds each have been fully accredited in the 17 years since the National Accreditation Board for Hospitals and Healthcare Providers was set up.

As India celebrates 75 years of independence and the beginnings of Amrutkaal, its healthcare system, enriched by a 5000-year legacy has much to offer to the world.

The aim is to ensure quality care, nutrition, medical services, technology and diagnostic support and mitigate the high burden of costs borne by patients and their families, NATHEALTH President Dr Shravan Subramanyam said.

The year 2018 ushered in a new era for universal healthcare in India with the announcement of the world’s largest health insurance scheme, The Pradhan Mantri Jan Aarogya Yojana—giving financial assistance for hospital care for the most vulnerable population.

We were often told that “Prevention is better than cure”. Yet, in matters of health, it is a human tendency to seek medical help only after detecting clinical symptoms. The trend is now changing as many more people have realised the benefits of prevention on quality of life and longevity.

As the government readies a ‘Heal in India’ portal to monitor the end-to-end journey of foreign patients arriving in the country for treatment, large private hospital chains looking to increase their medical tourism business have shared a number of suggestions with the Centre.

By Prabhdeep Singh. Developing and emerging countries in Asia and Africa, with similar healthcare and related issues, can take a leaf out of India’s book to solve their healthcare woes.

The objective of the campaign is to engage with key stakeholders, join hands with district authorities, and run a comprehensive public education program that addresses awareness gaps in understanding the benefits of vaccination

By Meena Ganesh And Vivek Srivastava.
India’s elderly population projected to triple in the next three decades.

By Siddhartha Bhattacharya & Barnik Chitran Maitra Technological advances, digitally enabled care and public-private partnerships can transform healthcare in India

There continues to be a perception that private hospitals are against public interest and operate only for profit. Therefore, it is important to examine a few aspects of overall hospital operational issues and challenges to decode these misconceptions

Digital is the future in all sectors of the economy and society and healthcare is no exception. Digital delivery will become integral to healthcare provision, and something that people have embraced after being driven indoors by the pandemic.

Rural communities have long struggled to maintain access to quality healthcare services. Rural healthcare in India is characterised by a huge gap between supply and demand.