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Umashankar Kotturu, co-founder of CallAmbulance, discusses the importance of taking a comprehensive and collaborative approach to emergency care built on technology, financial preparedness and a human network to create emergency ecosystems that empower victims. In this article, he explains how this outcome-driven model can save lives in the Indian context.
Read moreBy the year 2025, road traffic deaths in India are expected to cross 250,000 annually. Providing timely and high-quality emergency health services is a challenge, given supply-side problems, regulatory and policy issues, and lack of awareness about emergency care in the country. A robust national emergency medical service with an interdisciplinary approach is the need of the hour to complement the country’s still evolving healthcare facilities, argued panelists at a First Practice-based Summit on Emergency Medical Services held at the Indian School of Business.
Read moreThe 2013 Drug Price Control Order capped prices of over 300 drugs in the Indian market. Using an experimental design to assess the consequences of this price control on the anti-diabetic drug Metformin, Professor Chirantan Chatterjee and his co-authors show the unintended consequences of such price regulation.
Read moreAccess to affordable medicines and healthcare today comes with a dynamic trade-off in terms of potential disincentives for innovation tomorrow....
Read moreThe cross-subsidisation models of Aravind Eye Care Systems and LV Prasad Eye Institute have become global benchmarks for eye-care innovation....
Read moreBased on the case study by Dr. Naga Lakshmi Damaraju, Prafulla Rawal, Bavneet Singh, Himanshu Jain and Magesh Karthik Kamla...
Read moreSarang Deo, Associate Professor of Operations Management at ISB, and colleagues design a ‘mobile care delivery model’ that enables chronic...
Read moreHonchos from a cross-section of private healthcare providers in India got together at ISB recently to brainstorm on the future...
Read moreDifferential pricing by pharmaceutical companies whereby prices charged in each country are commensurate with either its ability to pay or...
Read moreIn 2007, during his doctoral studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT), Manish Bhardwaj and his colleagues won the “MIT...
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