Healthcare

Mohammad Anas Wahaj | 21 sep 2013

South-East Asian countries like Philippines and Indonesia are evolving themselves into knowledge-based economies by focusing on skills development of their workforce. This is creating a more competitive scenario for India in the Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO) space. According to Gopi Natarajan, CEO of Omega Healthcare, India seems to be losing its competitive advantage due to lack of availability of skilled human resources and the government's tax and regulatory policies that result in a difficult business environment and fail to provide basic infrastructure support. US Affordable Care Act under the Obamacare legislation and ICD-10 medical coding system, both to be enforced in 2014, will bring additional opportunities for BPO and KPO companies. India has to leverage its human resources advantage by imparting valuable skills to the graduates to remain competitive and at leadership position in the global BPO and KPO space. Read on...

PHARMABIZ: India losing edge in KPO to South East Asia's knowledge-based economies - Omega chief
Author: Nandita Vijay

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Mohammad Anas Wahaj | 21 sep 2013

Indian BPO's are upgrading their healthcare focused services by hiring US registered nurses, actuaries, medical writers, biostatisticians etc to avail the opportunity of high level healthcare outsourcing contracts. Earlier healthcare BPO work was mostly related to low-end processes like billing, patient record maintenance etc. The demand for US registered nurses is exacerbated due to the outsourcing of pre-service nursing and care management services by health insurance companies. Moreover demand for regulatory compliance has created more opportunities in actuarial services outsourcing. BPO companies are thus insisting on certification from reputed actuarial institutes and some companies are even encouraging and incentivizing their employees to become actuarial specialists. Read on...

The Times of India: Nurses, actuaries in big demand at BPOs
Author: Shilpa Phadnis

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Mohammad Anas Wahaj | 28 jul 2013

According to a latest global research on maternal and child nutrition, economic prosperity leads to faster rate of increase in the number of obese women as compared to rate of decrease of underweight women. Moreover 10% increase in GDP (Gross Domestic Product) reduces stunted growth among children by 6% but leads to 7% rise in obesity. Middle and low income countries like India are most affected by stunting, malnutrition as well as obesity among mothers and children. The paper mentions that although India has made progress in reducing mortality but still a lot is desired as most programs focus on survival diets and not on diet diversity for better growth and development. The investments are to be made in nutrition relevant schemes. Some Indian experts argue that merely focusing on correlation between GDP growth and health sector development leads to over simplification of these complex health issues. Read on...

Live Mint: Undernourishment and obesity seen as India's economy grows
Author: Vidya Krishnan

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Mohammad Anas Wahaj | 23 jul 2013

Indian pharmaceutical market is currently estimated at US$ 12.35 billion and is ranked 13th in the world. According to a recent research report on healthcare industry this is expected to jump to US$ 26 billion by 2016 due to multiple factors - continuous rise in health insurance, increase in government funding in healthcare, rise in quality of care, better access to necessary treatments. Some experts argue that this doubling of market sales of pharma and drug industry is unrealistic and estimate only about 13-14% growth annually. World Bank estimates that healthcare insurance will cover half of the Indian population by 2015 (630 million people). Government schemes like Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojna (RSBY) for providing insurance to below poverty line population is also boosting the growth of health insurance. Insurance sector has to streamline and build appropriate and competitive pricing structure and claim mechanism to sustain the speed of growth in the health sector. Read on...

Live Mint: Health insurance surge to put India in top 10 pharma markets
Author: C. H. Unnikrishnan

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Mohammad Anas Wahaj | 19 jul 2013

Clinical trials are an important constituent of the drug development process. Their purpose is to investigate the benefits and side effects of medicinal products on human subjects and are intended to ensure the product's safety and efficacy for the larger society. India's clinical research market is currently estimated at US$ 500 million and is projected to increase to more then US$ 1 billion by 2016. The current debate about the clinical trials in India is a result of the increase in the number of deaths related to such trials that amounted to 2868 between 2005-2012 and the subsequent amendment to the Schedul Y of Drugs and Cosmetics Rule of 1945. The amendment enacted on 30th January 2013 was intended to tighten the norms related to the conduct of clinical trials particularly in terms of taking informed consent from trial subjects and putting in place a modified compensation mechanism in case of injury and death by putting total and complete liability on the sponsor of the trial. The amendment finds substantial support from human rights activists and NGO's while pharmaceutical companies and clinical research organizations are divided in their opinion on the amendment. Moreover due to the stricter compliances and complex approval processes there is reduction in the number of clinical trials and their approvals, only 12 till April 2013 while the figure was in three digits last year. Industry experts argue that the current environment governing and regulating clinical trials will increase their cost and will make India unattractive for multinational corporations to conduct their trials and they will explore other destinations thus affecting the market prospects. Read on...

mondaq: Future Of Clinical Trials In India
Author: NA

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Mohammad Anas Wahaj | 05 jul 2013

There is a global trend towards bringing transparency into relationships between the healthcare industry and healthcare professionals particularly doctors. There is a law in the US, Physician Payment Sunshine Act, that deals with such issues and provide information through a free public website. Most recently France has enacted a law that makes it mandatory to reveal interactions between organizations and professionals like R&D deals, clinical trials, consultancy agreements etc. India still has to initiate strong transparency mechanisms for such relationships in its healthcare environment. Read on...

Silicon India: India Lacks Transparency Laws in Healthcare Industry Dealings
Author: NA

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Mohammad Anas Wahaj | 25 jun 2013

Researchers from Cambridge University - Lawrence King, Keertichandra Rajan and Jonathan Kennedy, in their study across 500 Indian districts found that in addition to poverty the most significant factor leading to poor public health is illiteracy. Literacy acts as a foundation for public to understand prescriptions and medicine labeling, avail healthcare, interact with health professionals and engage with public health programs effectively. Researchers suggested that healthcare policy makers should focus on increasing literacy levels than merely on average income and it is observed in less developed nations that economic policies narrowly directed towards growth are insufficient to address public health issues. Read on...

Deccan Chronicle: Literacy can improve public health in India
Author: NA

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Mohammad Anas Wahaj | 25 jun 2013

In India mental health disorders are not taken very seriously and there is supposedly a stigma attached with them. Moreover experts point out that there is an acute shortage of mental health professionals and facilities (only 4,000 psychiatrists, 1,000 psychologists and 3,000 social workers). Study conducted by National Commission on Macroeconomics and Health in 2005 points out that nearly 5% of India's population suffers from common mental disorders. Currently India lacks any national data on mental health disorders. But recently a comprehensive national survey of mental health is to be conducted by Ministry of Health and Family welfare in collaboration with National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS). Professor Mathew Varghese of NIMHANS says that cases of impulsive suicidal attempts among young population may not be all due to depression and there may be other societal pressures and factors. Read on...

DNA: Finally, a national survey on mental health disorders in India
Author: Kevin Dubouis, Anu Prabhakar

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Mohammad Anas Wahaj | 05 mar 2013

Even a 'Little Care for the Little Ones' can help India reduce its infant mortality. About 1.7 million children below the age of five die every year and about 50% of them die within first month of their birth. Various approaches and efforts have been used to reduce this but the pace of improvement is slow particularly if the comparison is made with China with similar socio-economic conditions. National level consolidated and converged strategy is to be evolved and implemented by addressing the basic and core concepts and using practices that have proved successful in various regions. Moreover awareness of simple knowledge, care concepts, methods and practices can play a very important role in improving chances of survival of the kids who will be the future of India. Read on...

The New Indian Express: Reducing infant mortality is not expensive
Author: NA

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Mohammad Anas Wahaj | 27 feb 2013

'Personalized Healthcare' will be a new shift in healthcare delivery, says an Indian origin professor. Use of data communication technologies, wireless tech, miniature devices etc are some aspects that will transform healthcare. Read on...

NewsTrackIndia: Personalized health care will revolutionize 21st century medicine, claims Indian-origin professor
Author: NA

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