Healthcare Technology : Demand of future
Achal Chaurasia– Healthcare Technology
Technology has transformed the way how we perceive our daily activities, and the healthcare sector is no exception. The advancement in technologies is making sweeping changes in the health care sector, with India having a big beneficiary. Indians are expected to become more health-savvy than ever before. That being said, the Indian healthcare industry is facing several challenges. According to reports, about 30% of the Indians do not pay a hospital visit due to fear of expenses. India aims at delivering personalized healthcare and a patient-eccentric approach as its next course of technological evolution.
Why the Indian Healthcare Industry needs Special Attention?
The average Indian population treated by one allopathic doctor is 10,926. According to the National Health Profile data, there is one government hospital bed per 1,844 population. The report claims India to have over 10 lakh, allopathy doctors, to treat its 1.3 billion people. That brings the doctor to population ratio of 1:10,926 for India. This number is abysmally lower than the World Health Organization (WHO) prescribed ratio of 1:1,000.
A huge disparity is seen between the urban and rural healthcare sectors. The report also focuses on the inadequate healthcare infrastructure of the country and the number of insufficient beds. India has 23,000 hospitals covering around 7 lakh beds. However, almost 20,000 of these hospitals are situated in rural areas surrounding close to 3 lakh beds. The country’s urban regions hold around 3,700 hospitals, with the majority of beds totaling above 4.3 lakh.
India currently spends 1.26% of its total GDP on the public healthcare system, making the country have the lowest public healthcare budget in the world. These numbers reflect the failure of the government to match the healthcare infrastructure demand. The rot in the healthcare industry has made medical treatment unaffordable for most of its population.
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For a country like India, which continues to be the world’s fastest-growing major economy, its severe health crisis is a primary concern now. The conventional methodologies still followed in the healthcare sector have led to the inaccessibility of accurate medical information to its citizens, which widely contributes to its loopholes.
What’s the Remedy Then?
Digitization has already occupied a significant space in our daily lives. The advancement in technologies will address the current challenges faced due to traditional healthcare systems by digitizing the processes. Researches are made by leveraging the technology to create patient-eccentric health care systems that improve doctors’ response time and save cost. Technology has been working to bridge the gap between doctor and patient’s response time by automating several processes. The advanced medical technologies and improved diagnostic tools are the results of a revolution in healthcare services.
India is taking steps towards becoming a developed nation. The health care sector is a fast-growing and rapidly expanding sector that provides employment opportunities and generates revenues. India is facing a huge challenge in providing proper health care services to its people. One of the major issues faced by the Indian health care industry is the lack of infrastructure. We need to build more clinics and standardize our procedures to increase efficiency in providing healthcare deliveries. As the Indian IT sector is booming, incorporating IT technologies in health care firms will tackle these issues effectively. When the majority of the Indian population cannot access timely and quality healthcare, Medicine is the place where the future of health care lies. Using applications built by companies like Healthcare, people in villages not just get access to good doctors from cities but over the world.
Read below to find out the significant changes that will take place in the healthcare sector due to the advent of emerging technologies.
Using Genetic sequencing technology and nanotechnology, genetic disorders and deadly infections like cancer and autism can be efficiently controlled.
With doctor’s consultation being taken online, the communication and interaction between doctor and patient have become much faster, thus eradicating the delays in treatments.
Technology will make medical treatment easily accessible to everyone at a reduced rate.
By maintaining the medical history of patients digitally and automating the process of accessing and storing these data, patients’ care and experience are improved.
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These technological advancements will help save lives, improve the quality of life, reduce medical costs, and make healthcare available in remote locations. These emerging technologies aim to create practical solutions using the knowledge of basic and applied science to address the unmet needs of healthcare.
Let’s Wrap Up
The Indian healthcare industry has a plethora of opportunities waiting to be reaped. With appropriate technology in the sector, it is possible to deliver quality and timely healthcare to all. The demand in-country is waiting for the supply to be delivered.
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Author- Achal Chaurasia
A young businessman who has been in the line of entrepreneurship for quite a few years. He is an active learner and loves to know more about new technological developments coming up as well as how they can be put to great use to yield better results for society.
