Opportunities in the Health Sector
- The Indian healthcare system is expected to grow by 9 trillion dollars by the end of 2022.
- With the invention of the National Digital Health Mission, patients will be provided with a unique identification that will serve as the main background of government policies. It will reduce the cost since medical staff can keep track of patients’ past records and reports which will help them with diagnosis and provide treatment in a better way.
- Startups: India has encouraged the use of startups and unicorns even in the medical field which will yield entrepreneurs and fresh talents that will motivate research and development.
- Medical tourism: Union government has laid down the medical tourism bill and it has become one of the major attractions of medical tourism in the world.
Need for quality improvement in the health care system
- Patient-centric: Improving patient safety and engagement, health literacy and patient communication is the major aim of improvement where patient needs and services lie side by side on the same page
- Data-driven analytics: To improve the quality of the healthcare system data analysis plays the most important role in minimizing variation and maximizing throughput. It helps to lessen error and infection rates and ultimately to fewer readmission
- Cost-effective and efficient: Streamlined and reliable process is easy to maintain, inexpensive, and generates the desired throughput. It becomes easier to eliminate the process failure
- A long-term investment: In the organization’s health investment, driven by committed and stable leadership the health care system yields quality and standard of life improvement for the citizen
- Strengthen Primary health care: It is a fundamental responsibility and priority of the government to provide basic and primary healthcare facilities to rural since it comprises the majority of the Indian population
Indian mortality and malnutrition rates have been quite low. The country carries a disproportionate burden of the world’s sick that making quality health service a need and requirement.
Improving the Quality of Health Care in India
Post-pandemic, the Indian healthcare system has been exposed to the world which showed major loopholes and insufficiency to tackle the emergency situation. Ever since then, the government has announced various subsidies, schemes, and policies and also included them in the budget to raise the spending and GDP of the health sector to a substantial level.