siliconindia | | December 20188By Neeraj Lal, VP & Cluster Head, Rainbow Children's HospitalBased in Hyderabad, Rainbow Children's Hospitals is India's leading child care hospital chain having over 17 years of proven excellence in offering high quality healthcare services in the areas of child care, women care, and fertility.H ealthcare market in India is blooming with newer technologies and effective care delivery. Various government initiatives ­ Smart Cit-ies, Clean India, Digital India and Ayushman Bharat etc. are creating enabling environment giving further push to the services sectors such as communication, healthcare, environment, technology, energy, banking to name a few.Demand Drivers · Large ageing population · Increasing healthcare costs in the western world · Increase in chronic and communicable diseases · Increase in disposable income aiding affordability of healthcare servicesPresence of world-class hospitals and skilled medical professionals is an added advantage. Treatment for major surgeries in India costs approximately 10 percent of the cost in most of the developed countries.Healthcare compliance requires healthcare organi-zations and providers to develop effective processes, policies, and procedures to define appropriate conduct, train the organization's staff, and then monitor the ad-herence to the processes, policies, and procedures. Focus on quality - The quality of care is increasingly important ­ as patients begin to exercise their right to choose how and with whom they engage for their healthcare. They demand transparency of data and processes. As a con-sequence, healthcare organizations will need to focus on how quality outcomes can be published in a mean-ingful way for patients. Patient safety is the major fo-cus of patient advocacy groups and healthcare leaders. They will enforce deeper investigations of medication errors, hospital acquired infections, wrong site sur-gery or pressure sores, like never before. NABH (un-der Quality council of India) is now monitoring clini-cal and managerial indicators hospital wise, state wise and country.HEALTHCARE COMPLIANCES IN INDIA: A BRIEF OVERVIEWIn my opinion
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