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 […]
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 […]
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Elmore Leonard is the man. Look at these lines from his books. “A man can be in two different places and he will be two different men. Maybe if you think of more places he will be more men, but two is enough for now.” – Valdez Is Coming “It doesn’t have to make sense, […]
“What reading does, ultimately, is keep alive the dangerous and exhilarating idea that a life is not a sequence of lived moments, but a destiny…the time of reading, the time defined by the author’s language resonating in the self, is not the world’s time, but the soul’s. The energies that otherwise tend to stream outward […]