Can IT be the game changer for healthcare in India?
Source: www.siliconindia.com Bangalore: Indian IT industry seems to have found a new ‘golden egg’ in the U.S., following Barack Obama’s announcement of the latest healthcare reforms to be primarily driven by technology adoption. Though, this is good news for the Indian IT sector, the question that needs to be pondered upon is, when will India be the goose? In other words when will Indian healthcare turn towards more IT adoption benefiting not only the industry, but also the entire country? It is a known fact that good healthcare is essential for any country. Today, with India being home to more than a billion people, it is high time that the administrators focused more on healthcare. “Before IT can be implemented in the Indian healthcare space, the basic infrastructure needs to be set right,” says Saurabh Sinha, Co-founder and President of eMids Technologies, a healthcare IT solutions provider based in U.S. The company is one among the long list of other IT vendors looking to grab a pi