Sunday, October 14, 2007

Health Highway: national data network to connect hospitals in India

India has launched a project to build a National Health Highway. Apollo and IBM are collaborating on this project to build a national data network. It is expected that the project would benefit approximately 900,000 doctors. IBM Research news on this project.

The one thing that immediately caught my attention is that the network will not only be used for exchange of health information, but will also provide a framework using which different clinical and financial applications can be provided on a subscription-based model. This is a powerful idea which will free the hospitals from managing the health information systems. An on-demand pay per use model will be a low risk opportunity for the hospitals.

India has around 1,500 mid-size (50-200 beds) hospitals and approximately 500 plus are expected to be added every year for the next 5 years. Health Care IT will be a fast growing market in the coming years. Read this article in Express Computer for more details.

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