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The Healthcare Infrastructure Conundrum
The new clinic is opening today. The town council, mayor, and other bureaucrats have been summoned. The company promoting the new chain of rural health clinics has sent its CEO, and its board chair, who has come from thousands of miles away in the west. The garlands have been prepared; chairs and a tent have been set up. This is progress.
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Start Ups: Rising Tide of Angels Boosts Seed Capital
Scores of angels are descending on India’s booming entrepreneurial sector as risk capital for very early stage firms emerges as a profitable investment category. In Mumbai, early stage investment firm Seedfund ha...
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- Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
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Healthcare Series: To Emerging Markets and Back Again (Part 2)
In every village where Healthpoint operates, it builds a permanent clinic, which costs roughly $50,000. Through the clinic, the organization provides North India residents with access to technology in the form of telemedecine, a diagnostics lab, provision of medicines and clean water. "Partnering is critical," says Healthpoint Founder Al Hammond.
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Piramal eSwasthya (Part 2): Building Acceptance for Mobile Health
"The world’s most radical yet simplest healthcare delivery model for the BoP, (with the) largest number of patients treated through remote diagnosis - Piramal eSwasthya becomes synonymous with the word telemedicine." That’s the headline the head of Piramal eSwasthya wants to see in 2020. In part two of our interview, he explains achieving it.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- public health
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Piramal eSwasthya, Demystifying the Primary Healthcare Model
Since its inception in 2008, Piramal Group’s initiative Piramal eSwasthya has worked to "democratize healthcare" through scalable and sustainable breakthrough healthcare delivery models. During the past three years, eSwasthya has experimented with telemedicine, clinical decision support systems and village-based health entrepreneurs.
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- Health Care
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- rural development, scale
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Advancing Healthcare With the BoP Series: Dial 104 for Health
A housewife in rural Andhra Pradesh, India has persistent lower back pain. Like 86 percent of other villages in AP, hers lies more than 3 km from the nearest hospital. Before 2007, she would, like most rural residents, be resigned to seeing a local, untrained doctor when her pain worsened. Today, she simply dials 104 from her mobile phone.
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Learning From Narayana’s Lean Model to Scale Services
Narayana Hrudayalaya performs 12 percent India’s total heart - more than heart than most hospitals in the world. Yet, by following a lean model that would make Toyota envious, Dr. Devi Shetty and other physicians have radically reduced surgical costs, while mortality rates remain consistently lower than some of the best hospitals in New York.
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- Health Care
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- scale
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Advancing Healthcare With the BoP: To Emerging Markets and Back Again
What happens when a large U.S.-based multinational company wants to get a product to market in the BoP? For Pfizer and GE, the approach is two-fold: part market-based and part philanthropic but both closely linked to market objectives of the firms.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise
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- philanthropy
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