Health and Pharma
Some sectors still immune to global recession – Indian pharma
The Economic Times In these turbulent times, the [Indian] pharma sector has shown comparative resilience and has been relatively less impacted. There are two reasons for this: the domestic pharma market continues to experience healthy growth and the demand for generic (a biological equivalent of an originator pharmaceutical product) medicines is on the rise in [...]
Manipal Education buys out Antigua University
The Economic Times In one of the biggest cross-border deals in the education space, Manipal Education has acquired the entire shareholding of American from New York-based Greater Caribbean Learning Resources. Manipal Education confirmed the buyout, but did not disclose the transaction size. However, sources said the company has raised $115 million debt financing from ICICI [...]
Medical Tourism to India, All Expenses Paid
- Comarow On Quality (usnews.com) In January, Serigraph Inc., a West Bend, Wis., manufacturer, will become the first U.S. company of any size to embrace medical travel or medical tourism, offering employees the option of having certain nonemergency operations, such as joint replacement, in India. The company will pay all expenses, including travel and lodging [...]
The Cost of a Long Life
Compelling graphic that demonstrates that throwing more money at problems does not always ensure better outcomes. via UCSC The chart highlights the sharp contrast between the US and Cuba. With a life expectancy of 76.9 years, Cuba ranks 28th in the world, just behind the US. However, its spending per person on health care is [...]
Narayana Hrudayalaya plans health city in Mexico
Implementation of this ‘health city’ idea is long overdue. With 46 million Americans without health insurance, and increasing number of them retiring baby boomers with insufficient or no insurance coverage due to preexisting medical conditions, it is only logical that the medical tourism and overseas living trend will accelerate for older Americans in the years [...]
Health Care Innovation in India
Strategy and Business [M]ore than 490 million people (about 70 percent of the Indian population) live in rural and semi-urban areas. They are difficult to reach, especially in a country where doctors are scarce (the ratio of physicians to total population is less than one per 100,000 people, compared with about one per 160 in [...]
iSoft India gives shape to world’s largest health project
The Economic Times Healthcare software provider iSoft on Thursday said that its Indian R&D team is developing a solution what it described as the world’s largest civilian IT healthcare project. The Lorenzo software application, which will link nearly two-thirds of the hospitals in the United Kingdom, will also be launched in Europe, Australia and Germany [...]
Bilcare conquering new frontiers
The Economic Times Bilcare is one such company, which provides integrated solutions to pharma companies globally. BUSINESS:Bilcare provides packaging products and clinical research services to pharma companies in India and abroad. It has a global footprint with operations in the US, UK, Germany, Singapore and Brazil. The company has two major business divisions — pharma [...]
India’s low-cost patient care earns plaudits in US study
During a visit to India last month, I accompanied my mother to Apollo hospital in Chennai for some minor plastic surgery. This was to stitch up a ruptured ear piercing. From seeing a doctor to getting the required surgery and coming home took about 1.5 hours and cost $125. Incredible! I’ve spent more time and [...]
Medical Tourism
Indian hospital groups like Apollo, Fortis and Wockhardt should takeover hospitals in Latin America to increase outreach to US patients. BLOG.THEMEDICALROADSHOW.COM: Americans are living longer than ever before, but at the same time they’re facing challenges presented by out-of-control medical costs and inadequate health insurance. Increasing numbers of U.S. citizens are traveling abroad to avail [...]
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