Whether it’s cancer diagnosis or keeping an eye on the rise of diabetes, or something as simple as digitising medical records for access anytime, anywhere – these healthtech startups are doing it all.
From medical tourism to telemedicine, India’s healthcare sector has been expanding at a healthy double-digit rate to include newer and better services powered by new-age technologies. The problem, however, is not availability, but access to these services.
For every 1,000 people, the number of physicians in India stands at 0.7 (less than 1), a metric that places the country way behind the global average of 1.5 physicians per 1,000 people. And then, there are only 0.7 beds per 1,000 people, compared to the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) recommendation of 3.5.
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https://yourstory.com/2019/04/startups-monitoring-india-health-machine-learning (Accessed on April 10, 2019)
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