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Healthcare Applications Bringing a Boom in the Healthcare Industry

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Deepak Tomar, Founder, HeyCare.Ever since the gadgets like Fitbit are revolutionizing the fitness perspective, we must realize, we have come a long way! Healthcare is no more the decrepit practice, instead; it is Convenience Personified!

It’s the canny era and the technology with such astute is nothing less than a metamorphosis of Health to M-Health! The quick augmentation in M-Health introduction is majorly due to smartphones popularity in the country. No wonder the technology has taken us far beyond the traditional approach to healthcare in India! With the rise of the smartphone market, India is the second largest smartphone market in the world after China, even the rural community holds at least one smartphone per family which indicates the easy access to technology in hand.

The overall Indian healthcare market today is worth $100 billion and is expected to grow to $280 billion by 2020 with a CAGR of 22.9 percent. While the market size growing with the passing years, healthcare is now one of the most considered sectors both in terms of revenue and employment. We are on the edge of a complete health revamp carrying an enormous system to handle health digitally! Umpteen services, plentiful options and the facile solution, it’s the time to access health anywhere--- every where!

Patients need cinch solutions and some thing wieldy to stay sorted from the long waiting hours and the appointment hassles. As per the survey by Forbes, common patient thinking aspects includes:

1.The maximum numbers of patients focus on treating their illness and finding an immediate solution to their medical emergencies but never go deep down to the roots to treat the disease.

2.People need everything quick! Immediate care is what needed.

3.The patients want to keep hope, no matter how dire the situation turns out to be, they need options at the time of emergencies which can help at the moment.

4.They need space, if one gets admitted to the hospital they need a private bathroom with no roommates.

5.Patients need to pay the least possible price for their medical issues and want an extra coverage of either insurance or third party to stand at their back.

6.Patients want their doctor to be best qualified but can never believe on his years of experience but rely on word of mouth.
7.They always prefer short-term treatments or the ones which do not include more effort, surgeries, and other clinical treatments is a big no for them!

While it’s not just thinking, it’s something which every stakeholder or entrepreneur needs to understand at their level but, if there seems a tangle, there can be ways to untangle too!

Telemedicine Applications is trending in the health world for its prevalent benefits especially to the elderly locals and the rural population.


Tele medicine Applications is trending in the health world for its prevalent benefits especially to the elderly locals and the rural population. As per the recent Business Standards Report, Indian Telemedicine market is expected to grow from $ 15 million (Current scenario) to $ 32 million by 2020. The basic idea behind tele medicine is discarding the barriers between a doctor and the patient, getting access to smooth healthcare on time! Improving the doctor-patient communication channel tele health can benefit in other ways too!

1. Teleconferencing Apps Doctors can consult with distant patients, reducing expensive office visits and making advanced health care available to even the most remote patients.

2.E-Records Medical information is entered once to compile a complete history, making it easier to track outcomes and emerging as an all in one digital platform.

3.Collaboration- Easily transmitted E-Records allow doctors at different locations to work from the same information,reducing the chance of medical errors.

Convenience playing the new game changer especially amongst the young generation attracting towards E-Health solutions & M-Health applications, there is a huge market demand of online consultations. 27 percent of physician offices and 42 percent of hospitals already have tele medicine capabilities. While tele health is the best way out to make the cost cuttings and get access to immediate health services at a tap of a finger.

Looking the other way round, another technology is revolutionizing the healthcare experience, Artificial Intelligence, when combined with Healthcare, has a vast area to cover! AI is a study to embrace human intelligence into computer technology that carries a potential to assist both doctors and patients. The most popular example can be Apple’s Siri! You can get your exact answers in the desired language and can be facilitated in getting some useful things done. AI can help in various ways-

1. It can organize patient routes or treatment plans better.

2.Provide physicians with all the information they need to make a good decision.

3.Devise novel tools to support decision making and research.

4.Provide laboratory for the examination, representation, and cataloging of medical information.

5.Integrating activities in medical, software and cognitive science.

6.Offer a content rich discipline for the future scientific medical community.

When Artificial Intelligence benefits everything in the changing world, right from virtual reactions to the computer working on your voice, the route to technology has rotated! With the help of mere a narrow AI, the doctors can access patient records, compare the previous history and suggest the best possible treatment basing it on the recent medical research, providing the patients with the appropriate medical treatment and unburdening the doctors as well!

Leave the hassles, the tech curve is here!