ISBInsight is the Flagship Research Periodical of the Indian School of Business
As per a recent publication by Pacific Bridge Medical, the dialysis market in India has increased from USD100 million in 2007 to about USD200 million in 2018 and is projected to grow at an annual rate of 30% as compared to 6-8% in the United States and other developed economies. To tap this burgeoning demand, Sparsh Nephrocare, a chain of …
Read More »Sarang Deo: What are your thoughts on the current global and domestic pharmaceutical markets? Where do you see opportunities and challenges? GV Prasad: In the Indian pharmaceuticals industry, major inroads into innovation are few and far between. We market some licensed products and we out-license others. But the major business of Indian pharma is generics. The history of the Indian pharma industry …
Read More »ISBInsight: The key idea with the Max Institute of Healthcare Management (MIHM) is to bring private sector thinking to optimise public sector practice. How does MIHM’s work help realise this vision? Sarang Deo: A couple of years ago when we started strategising about where the Indian School of Business (ISB) could add value in the healthcare space, given that we are …
Read More »Sarang Deo: What is Onco.com? Amit Jotwani: Onco.com is a virtual care platform for cancer patients. Our objective is to become a guiding force for every cancer patient to get the right treatment. In cancer, if you don’t get the right treatment, the whole chain of events gets spoilt and the results are not as expected. So, we wanted every patient …
Read More »"Lycra bike shorts that take our pulse, count our steps and read our moods are pretty nifty, but they aren’t the change we need." - Robert Wachter, The Digital Doctor Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) – ranging from hospital information systems to cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and big data analytics – are rapidly transforming the healthcare sector. The McKinsey Global Institute’s …
Read More »In emerging economies such as India, 911-type centralised emergency medical service (EMS) systems and humanitarian logistics systems are a relatively recent development. Due to limited investment in infrastructure and trained personnel, these systems tend to be severely resource-constrained. Recent events have also called into question their efficiency (Garg 2012). In India, humanitarian logistics services are not well-designed for large disasters …
Read More »Both researchers and practitioners have implicitly assumed that in fluid team settings, members who are familiar with each other perform better in the short run. However, there may be diminishing returns to working with familiar teams in the long run. Experimental evidence indicates that in diverse teams, there is more exploration of knowledge, leading to higher creativity and generation of …
Read More »The authors present their findings on how best to optimise the placement of point-of-care (POC) devices in health networks in resource-limited countries Introduction A major constraint in tackling diseases with high socioeconomic burden (e.g., Tuberculosis, Malaria, HIV) in many resource-strapped economies is the unavailability of appropriate diagnostic devices that can inform clinical decisions in a timely manner. Existing devices to diagnose these …
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