| | February 20188By Jeff Kosowsky, Senior VP - Corporate Development, American Well Headquartered in Boston, American Well is a healthcare IT services company specializing in the telehealth and telemedicine verticals. It connects patients instantly with doctors over secure video, thus enabling them have a seamless & hassle-free communication.WIN MY OPINIONTHE POTENTIAL FOR TELEHEALTH IN INDIA: CARE IS COMING HOMEith a rapidly growing population, expanding middle class and increase in life expectancy, India is quickly encountering the challenges and expenses of chronic disease at an unprecedented scale. Additional challenges include an underdeveloped ambulatory system, coupled with a shortage of sufficiently-trained providers and specialists. Already more than 70 million Indians suffer from diabetes with hundreds of million more cases expected to develop over the next several decades. As one might expect, there simply are not enough endocrinologists available to treat this huge number of patients and, as a result, many go untreated altogether and often face dire consequences. Rural areas are hit even harder by these realities. Resolving this health crisis would cost India hundreds of billions in capital to build out the full-scale network of modern ambulatory clinics needed to treat these patients.
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