Foreword

Redefining Care Delivery

At a time when healthcare expenditures are on the rise, a new concept for care delivery is taking roots -- value-based healthcare or the patient health outcome per dollar spent. This model of care delivery focuses on the outcome delivered by the care provider rather than just the cost of delivering it or the financial success of the stakeholders.

The mHealth Revolution

Mobile technology has created a whole new paradigm for healthcare delivery and practice. Mobile Healthcare - also known as mHealth - enables providers, practitioners, patients, payers and pharma to connect in a never before way.

Healthcare in India

A picture of contradictions

"...whatever you can rightly say about India, the opposite is also true". - Professor Joan Robinson as quoted by Dr Amartya Sen.

The adaptation continues

For healthcare providers it is important to remember that globalisation is here to stay.

Online PHRs

Bridging the information divide

Online PHRs can overcome the geographical limitations of existing EMR systems, while encouraging patients towards selfcare.

Patient-Centred Healthcare

Moving beyond ailment

An involved patient is a blessing for healthcare organisations.

Healthcare Governance

Time for a revamp

Natural products-based drug discovery is gaining prominence once again.

Healthcare Genomics

The healthcare markets are witnessing launch of genetic tests, personalised medicines, therapies, which in turn are influencing the clinical care and patient outcomes.

Socially responsible, efficient healthcare

Healthcare organisations, whether owned by the state or privately, either for-profit or not, shall provide incentives for efficiency, emphasise on safety, and have measures to practice and communicate socially responsible behaviour.

Asia's tryst with accreditations

"Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients? For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a ruler of bodies, and not a maker of money, have we not?" - Plato

Hospitals, Diseases and Globalisation

Given the plethora of management tools and techniques that have emerged in recent years, many hospitals are indeed being managed more efficiently than ever.