”Dignity is our inherent value and worth as human beings; everyone is born with it.” In this world increasingly divided by mistrust and hate, dignity for each other and ourselves is getting sacrificed. The most fundamental and human thing about all of us is our dignity. As a matter of fact, United Nations acknowledges this in […]
One of the biggest challenges in the healthcare system is that it vests disproportionate power in the hands of a few – the medical practitioners. Doctors are at the top of the knowledge hierarchy in the system and hence, wield significant power in decision-making, relegating the rest of the players to marginal roles of following […]
This post is part of a series on The Healthcare Gamechangers. Read all the stories in this series here. In the modern day of doctor-patient confidentiality and the computerization of medical records, there is little chance of a whole family visiting a practice for advice, or the merrygo-round of doctors being able to spot and act upon […]
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This post is part of a series on The Healthcare Gamechangers. Read all the stories in this series here. The story of Nalini Saligram and Arogya World Healthcare has been developing along one line for centuries. We look to help people far too late in the process to have any meaningful intervention. Once someone presents with type […]
The story of Rushika Fernandopulle & Iora Health LOOKING AT THE WAY THINGS HAVE BEEN DONE IN THE past only, has limited use for the future. We have worked on models of health for centuries that were right for their time, their technology and the knowledge of the health practitioners. But times have changed significantly. […]
Hospitals are going to disappear. Atleast in the way we know them today, they will disapear. They are great for sick-care. But, no way are they central to healthcare. If indeed the goal of the healthcare system is to keep people healthy, what is the need of a hospital? If the goal is to treat […]
Does this ancient Chinese system hold the secret to the future of managed care? Modern medicine is going through somewhat of a crisis of identity in the modern world. As the population ages, the need for medicine changes and the budgets and margins for the profession look tighter all the time. So much of modern […]
Most modern institutions have been optimised for efficiency, leading to increasing specialisation and focus on repetition. But institutions of the future are at risk of obsolescence if they rely on repetition and increasing the silo-ed approach to improve efficiency. One such institution is a “Hospital”. How did we end up with this notion of specialised […]
WE, THE PEOPLE OF INDIA, having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a SOVEREIGN SOCIALIST SECULAR DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC and to secure to all its citizens: JUSTICE, social, economic and political; LIBERTY of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship; EQUALITY of status and of opportunity; and to promote among them all FRATERNITY assuring the dignity of […]
WE, THE PEOPLE OF INDIA, having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a SOVEREIGN SOCIALIST SECULAR DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC and to secure to all its citizens: JUSTICE, social, economic and political; LIBERTY of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship; EQUALITY of status and of opportunity; and to promote among them all FRATERNITY assuring the dignity of […]