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The main aspect that value to health interventions including cost, results and finally experience, has been hiding in plain land. The size and layout of a room where the bed will fit, how much space is needed for patients to walk and many beds & operating equipment to be placed, have never been considered predictors of health outcomes in past days. But now, it's completely evolving as healthcare companies & architects join hand to encompass smart designs into the existing healthcare ecosystem. In India, the inception of structured consulting in healthcare emerged in late 90's, but...Read More

Healthcare transport system has proven to be the spine of the healthcare ecosystem. Appropriate medical transportation services have played a vital role in handling emergency situations assisting patients with on-the-spot medical attention and facilitating them swift and convenient transport of the patients to the hospitals. These services have been ensuring the populace with on time delivery of medical facilities. The increase in the number of medical intricacies and the ineluctable rise of untoward catastrophes has heightened the extensive expansion of the medical transport service market. If statistics are...Read More

As per Grand View Research's recent study, the global healthcare CRO market size is expected to reach $54.7 billion by 2025, growing at a CAGR of 6.6 percent each year. Many CROs have either enlarged their geographical business to India or enhanced their existing business in the country due to low cost. In India, the cost for clinical trial is approximately 40-70 percent less than US/EU. Thus, many famous industry leaders are presently leveraging the demographic advantage offered by India and dominating the Indian CRO market. Today, the rising population is in urgent need of better medical care which...Read More

Turning pages to the next decade, the healthcare realm continues its multifaceted growth, evolution in technology being the single largest driver of the sector. From more Electronic Health Records to Surgical Robotics & Smart medical devices and from Point-of-care doorstep diagnostics to the increasing finesse of Clinical research and trials, this growth is lucid across the stakeholder ecosystem. Amidst this constant evolution, the market is skyrocketing, offering a huge amount of opportunity. In terms of numbers, the Healthcare market in India is expected to reach $372 billion by 2022, driven by rising...Read More

The Indian pharmaceutical industry is known for its production of generic drugs and making it available in the market in a cost-effective way. India's pharmaceutical exports have reached USD 19.14 billion in the financial year 2019, from that of USD 17.27 billion in FY18. Several factors have contributed to this hike, of which the low cost of production and increasing expenditure on R&D makes it apparent. Some major improvements in the pharma and life science sector has orchestrated in producing innovative medicines and better understanding about diseases. The country has moved way forward from an era...Read More

Revolutionized by technology, the healthcare industry has witnessed an unprecedented growth in the last two decades. The advancements in healthcare technology have been aiding quality treatment, reducing the turnaround time and overall cost, bringing in higher accountability into the system. However, the healthcare professionals employed in the field, still lack the experience and expertise to cope up with this incessant advancement in the healthcare techniques and technologies. Thereby the healthcare professionals need to have a proper training to keep up with the new techniques and technologies, so as to...Read More

While the major driver of the scientific instruments market is still the R&D departments across the industries, the raise in healthcare automation is creating a catalytic effect. The global scientific instrument market, which reached a value of $ 33 billion in 2018, is projected to hit $42 Billion by 2024, expanding at a CAGR of four percent during 2019-2024. The segments such as life science continue to perform big, while Biotech is another area predicted to have the fastest growth in demand for instrumentation in 2019.  For the contenders in the industry, the key to this humongous opportunity is...Read More

A multitude of opportunities abound the current drug discovery space in India, thanks to the emerging trends like gene editing, stem cells, immunotherapies, biologics and a lot more. Yet, the traditional pharmaceutical research sector contains a handful of potential topics to consider for drug discovery such as protein degraders, human microbiome, antibiotics, RNA and others. Harnessing the best trends and the above prospective research aspects, a swarm of companies in India are coming-up with innovative, affordable and top-notch medicines in the Indian pharmaceutical sector. Well, the journey of Indian...Read More

In recent years, the growth of pain management drugs and devices market is majorly due to the well-established business of painkiller medications as the first line of treatment. Pain is an adverse postoperative outcome that requires effective pain management in the form of medications. That's why; the post-operative pain management is gaining traction in the global market owing to the increasing surgical treatments across the globe. As per the report that has been published by Market research Future (MRFR), the global postoperative pain management market is anticipated to expand steadily at a CAGR of 5.4...Read More

India is becoming the most preferred healthcare destination among foreigners. Moreover in support of the government and fuelled by the country’s thriving corporate boom in medical care, a rising number of medical tourists are crossing national boundaries to seek treatment that is much cheaper than in their native countries. This segment has therefore grown to become a multibillion dollar industry that is all set to surge further in the coming future. Citing its promising outlook, medical bodies strive to establish collaborations with various travel agencies, top class hotels and other hospitality service...Read More

According to Population Census 2011, there are around 104 million senior citizens (aged 60 years or above) in India, constituting about nine percent of the total population.  Another report by HelpAge India showcases that while India will be the youngest country in the world by 2020, but 20 percent of its population (325 million) will be elderly by 2050 (grown by 270 percent). Old age is the second childhood - this age group requires as much attention, care, love & supervision as a small kid needs. In addition to love & care, elderly people desire for comfort to lead a healthy life without...Read More

Speech & language disorder is one of the most common health issues with children & adult in India where statistics show that speech impairment is fifth highest occurring disability in the country with a prevalence of seven percent. It is also reported that one in every ten school children has a speech disorder. Additionally, 90 percent of children with identified speech and language needs can have long term difficulties. The speech & language disorders are caused due to several reasons including genetic, injury, environmental causes, neurological disorders, stroke and more. The lack of the...Read More

The ubiquity of diabetes in India is making headlines today, with around 40 million being diagnosed with the chronic disease. Moreover, an estimated 8.7 percent diabetic population are found between the age groups of 20 and 70 years, this is mainly due to the rising prevalence of a combination of factors like trending sedentary lifestyles, unhealthy diets, rapid urbanization and many other contributing complications. Due to this enraged epidemic, several speciality and diagnostic centres, hospitals and practitioners have responded to this alarming beckon with advanced, world-class treatment facilities to...Read More

In the view of differences between the eastern and western approaches to mental health, challenges in the culturally responsive adaptations are underscored. However, today’s global-oriented cultures have driven positive perspectives toward the growth of this sector in the country and has therefore gained traction among majority millennials, some baby- boomers and most generation-Z populations. Despite the scaling awareness, psychotherapy in India is still hinged on a dilemma as a result of therapies that emerged from colonial hangover together with rigidity among cultural and traditional ties. Despite...Read More

India remains among the top most favoured destinations of off-shoring in the provider and payer outsourcing healthcare domain. The reason being, that the country in comparison to other outsourcing nations, possesses competent talent-pools and highly skilled healthcare professionals, tech-savvy infrastructure and more, all available at affordable costs. Moreover factors such as business stability, cost containment and healthcare compliance acts play crucial roles in ascertaining business sustainability, thus it is important for healthcare businesses to house definite structured plans and chalk out methods to...Read More

From treatment to prevention, healthcare is witnessing a major shift in the way people perceived it and diagnostic industry plays a crucial role in making this shift happen. Several surveys reveal that the Indian diagnostic services market is growing at 15-20 percent and expected to reach Rs.860 billion by 2020. Boosting the industry can be attributed to increasing chronic & non-chronic diseases, improving purchasing power of middle class and enhancement in technology & procedures. Moreover, several government initiatives such as free healthcare & medicine to all and other such measure have...Read More

The Indian wellness industry is scaling up in terms of advancements and achievements. This broad sector has now evolved as an intensely developing business. NSDC (National Skill Development Corporation) recently stated that with health and happiness being major priorities, the buzzword wellness is turning into $1.4 trillion market in India. It also reports that the market size has grown with a CAGR of 15 percent over the last five years and it’s expected to grow more in the future. While the population growth and lifestyle trends are influencing the industry, the advanced technologies and rise in...Read More

‘Yoga’ – an ascetic and spiritual discipline that is deeply rooted in Indian grounds, has picked-up a global trend today, influencing the lives of over two billion people worldwide. Deemed to be as old as the human civilization, passed down from our ancestors, this practice has evolved over the years right from being a medium to optimize spiritual & physical strength and also to achieve & discover the ‘higher consciousness of Oneself’. With its seeds sown and nurtured in this country, Yoga’s first international institutional exposure dates back to 1893, when young...Read More

The need for technology in delivering healthcare services has always been huge in India due to a spectrum of factors. These factors include right from density of doctors being one per 1000, urban areas having four times the medical practitioners present in rural areas, to the qualified doctors constituting only 19 percent in rural while it is 58 percent in urban. Hence, the healthcare sector in India has lately been witnessing a huge convergence of technological solutions with cloud, telecom, wireless networks, data analytics and other technologies. This convergence can not only accelerate the entire process...Read More

At an epoch where the global clinical trials market size is expected to reach $68.9 billion by 2026, the subcontinent doesn’t have the luxury of keeping clinical research approvals under red tapes for long. The New Drugs and Clinical Trial Rules, 2019, released by the government, promises faster approvals and to cut down on red tape, is an elixir to the segment. As per the new rules, any drug discovered in India, which is proposed to be manufactured & marketed in the country, will be deemed approval for clinical trials in 30 working days, if no communication has been received from the Central...Read More

‘Alternative Therapy’ - the brain child of age-old Indian traditional healing and treatments dating back to over 5000 years, still occupies a major form of cure for its people even today. Based on their much revered qualities and beliefs that these were chants of the God’s handed-over to royal priests for betterment of people, alternative therapy has gained more significance where health science therapies emerged around these practices and are gaining traction into mainstream treatments. Assuming much deep-rootedness not just on Indian soil, these practices have unearthed pure value for their...Read More

Rapid digitalization in India is proving to be beneficial in every industry including healthcare. With 68 percent of the India population staying in rural areas, a few years ago it was difficult to provide healthcare services to the people in such remote parts of the country. Introduction of telemedicine has helped in revolutionizing healthcare delivery throughout the country. With telemedicine, e-clinics, m-health, a significant percentage of such population is receiving premium doctors’ suggestions virtually through an electronic medium. Telemedicine has helped in providing access to qualified...Read More

Healthcare is often considered one of the most conservative industries in terms of technical amendments. After all, there are objective reasons for precautions when human health and even lives are at stake. Nevertheless, more and more practitioners and health services providers acknowledge the importance of technical innovations in healthcare. Modern medicine can’t stay in the last century anymore. The number of mHealth apps available in the market has increased substantially. There are now over 318,000 health apps available on the top app stores worldwide, nearly double the number of apps available in...Read More

Last year, the skin care industry in India has beheld revenue of $1,466 million while it is projected to grow annually at a CAGR of 2.6 percent in 2018-23. This dynamic and fast-paced growth is believed to be due to the increasing awareness among people on the incredible benefits of skin care therapies. Besides, the rise in number of skin problems is propelling the experts and clinics in this industry towards seamless innovation and research. In fact, an alarming increase in skin diseases can be witnessed over the recent times in India right from skin illness, sun burn, fungal infection, bacterial infection,...Read More

Over the past few years, the might of biotechnology has inspired and triggered a lot of scientists and researchers to plunge into entrepreneurship. Anu Acharya is one such biotech buff who has established two startups so far in view of bringing the Western biotechnology across the Indian populace. Vivek Wadhwa is another example who has invested volumes in his Indian medical-diagnostics firm. These scientists cum entrepreneurs are indeed the biggest driving factors behind the growth and innovation of Indian biotechnology realm. No wonder, the biotechnology industry is forecasted to reach $100 billion by 2025....Read More

The world’s current obsession with flaunting curly, wavy or straight hair, of a quality that boosts the essence of beauty has escalated over the years. India being a major exporter of the same, expects to register a CAGR of 7.86 percent within 2018-2023. Moreover the country witnessing a desire for perfect hair no longer limits to just the female population, but an evidently rising interest among men as well to maintain healthy locks of hair/beard has been observed. However on the contrary, although much care and considerable amounts of revenue is spent on hair care, the current-day pollution levels and...Read More

The audiology and speech pathology industry of India has undergone drastic change all along the decade. Audiologists and audiology service providers all over India have successfully captured the demand market by collaborating with the most popular hearing aid companies to improve their stocks. The change has made the public more and more aware of what’s what of the industry, which brand of hearings aids is the best and who are the top rated audiologists in the country. A better sense of knowledge and awareness have been created by the popular audiology and speech pathology clinics and now the patients...Read More

The modern niche of mobile applications is as diverse right now as never before. And apart from numerous leisurely entertainment-focused solutions, there is also a bunch of highly useful portable assistants that can as much as save your life in an unprecedented situation. According to expert predictions, the digital health market is looking to get colossal USD 206 billion in total earnings up to 2020, with the USD 79 billion mark recorded only in 2015. This alone can be a good enough reason to launch one’s authentic mobile product in the niche. As a matter of fact, there took place invaluable cases of...Read More

While health stands as an indispensable element of our lives, primary healthcare has plunged into the mainstream over the last few years by addressing the concerns of the peripheral and vulnerable culture groups. Primary healthcare has multiple definitions that sum up to preventive, promotive and curative care for individuals based on their requirements and preferences. Altogether, the chief goal or objective of primary healthcare is the provision of person-focused care right across the community they live in, but not disease-focused care. Right from preventing any illness, detecting and treating it if present...Read More

With the rising number of diseases causing threat to human life, healthcare industry is witnessing huge growth. Indian healthcare sector is expected to reach $280 billion by 2020. The booming industry is undoubtedly offering potential opportunities in various healthcare segments. Pathology is one such segment and it is a very critical term which explains the art or science of determining the cause of a particular disease. It deals with the laboratory examination of samples of body tissue for diagnostic or forensic purposes. Today, not only patients, but doctors as well are not ready to take any risk as life...Read More

With rise of new diseases, including the much talked about lifestyle diseases, the diagnostics industry is an indispensible attribute of the healthcare ecosystem, helping zero down on the crucial elements of the medical treatment. When a diagnostic test is accurate and performed timely, a patient has the best opportunity for a positive health outcome as clinical decision making will be tailored to a correct understanding of their health issue. In contract, it is also medically proven that diseases such as cancer, diabetes and tumor, if detected at early stages, can be cured effectively and in some cases, even...Read More

Proteins are regarded as the principal constituents, and one of the most essential macronutrients for every living organism, as they are the building blocks of bones, muscles, cartilage, skin, and blood. Since times immemorial, meat products like eggs, chicken and fish have been known to be the major protein suppliers for humans; majorly by bodybuilders and people with protein deficiency related health issues. However, in recent times, there is a sudden shift in this trend, as a vast populace across the world are going vegan and prefer plant-based protein sources over meat. “Protein has been...Read More

The recent report by Crowe illustrates that medical billing and coding outclass among the top healthcare revenue cycle risk areas for healthcare organizations in 2019. Given the scenario, it is inevitable for these organizations to explore the best strategy that can mitigate the potential risks instead of losing a fortune and reputation. In fact, effective medical billing& coding management requires healthcare providers to look into every single aspect right from accuracy of in-house billing& coding to maintaining visibility and regular monitoringof all the third-party activities. Today, medical...Read More

A good and balanced diet habit undoubtedly keeps up the health and wellbeing of individuals who are prone to enormous amount of stress, anxiety, fatigue and various other mental health issues over the recent times. Nutrition and dietetics are two major segments that are concerned with the aspect of creating a proper diet habit.While nutrition is oriented on the promotion of health, dietetics is a branch that emphasizes on proper food management through the principles of nutrition. Due to the ever-evolving changes in the food habits of people as well as their lifestyles, the significance of nutrition and...Read More

The process of Motherhood defines as one of the most exciting yet pressure-filled chapters in the life of a woman. Right from the second of receiving a positive confirmation, through a precious and critical course of nine months, being a mother is no easy task. Packed with priceless moments and simultaneous challenges, all become weary when the new mommy grips with care the product of love and blessings- her new born. However the challenges of nurturing and raising the little one daunt those who are especially witnessing motherhood for the first time. Furthermore, as the transition from the mother’s warm...Read More