There are technology disruptions happening within the healthcare industry. A new mobile app or technology is introduced nearly each day that bring us closer to managing our own health and make the entire healthcare ecosystem more agile. India, being a heavily populated country, presents many opportunities in this space. According to Frost & Sullivan, the Indian healthcare industry is projected to reach $160 billion by 2017. With the government's recent plan to provide health insurance for 80 percent of the population by 2020, under its Health Insurance Vision 2020, is another driver for change. Yet medical practitioners seem reluctant to use IT heavily, due to costs involved as well as other less obvious barriers like usability. Health insurance in India typically don't cover out-patient/ambulatory care, making the IT adoption in this segment almost non-existent. Another disruption, prevalent in the media, is an outrage over private practitioners prescribing drugs and services that are medically inappropriate [yet financially beneficial to themselves]. This has fueled several debates in the parliament and has drawn the attention of the Ethics Committee of the Medical Council of India. With its international experience and exposure, the 2008 founded company ICT HEALTH, believes that the best way to breach these barriers, impeding millions of people's access quality healthcare, is to adopt IT systems and standards that facilitates real time communication between the practitioners and payers, as is the case in most first world economies.

With an office in Bangalore, ICT HEALTH is a systems integrator committed to providing smarter solutions to healthcare organizations. It focuses on achieving improved outcomes, rather than pure process automation. "We provide healthcare entities with knowledge and international experience, diagnostic equipment, as well as complete information technology solutions. We ensure that all these devices and systems talk to each other, increasing efficiency and quality in every aspect of operations," says Gautam Dey, CEO, ICT HEALTH.The solutions offered by ICT HEALTH are built around their own award winning HINAI' platform,that has been validated against HL7 and IHE guidelines pertaining

to the USA's meaningful use standards. Their solutions can be grouped under 'HINAI Web', a total Health Information and Management System, as well as 'HINAI Care', that aids in the acquisition, aggregation, review and analysis of clinical patient information, for safer evidence-based care.

Over a hundred healthcare providers have benefited from ICT HEALTH's vast experience of over 25 years and availed services from its local technology and consulting specialists spread across India, Middle-East and Africa. ICT HEALTH's mission focuses on the best-fit solution, supported by an implementation & deployment strategy. The organization endeavors to build a collaborative relationship with its clients, with the objective of tangibly impacting quality of care as well as business returns. ICT HEALTH's cloud offering deployed at Narayana Health, is one of the largest healthcare IT systems in India that manages 6000 beds with 3500 concurrent users across 35 facilities. "Apart from providing agility to healthcare enterprises, we make sure that the solutions are designed, deployed & supported by cutting edge technologies & new age business models making them more accessible & affordable, so that they are never more expensive than the problem," adds Gautam.


While public and private healthcare sectors each have their own drivers, ICT HEALTH has crafted tailored solutions for both. For the public sector, committed to provision of care as a social responsibility, ICT HEALTH's solutions focuses cost optimization and accessibility. For the private sector, it focuses on improved revenue generation through the visibility of performance of individual service centers, guiding

investments decisions.against the most rigorous global standards, technology innovation that focuses on simplicity & elegance and services focused on value. Working with ICT HEALTH is not only emotionally satisfying, but also financially rewarding. The company further works to enhance engagement through employee equity plans and other performance reward mechanisms to retain, nurture & grow its strong talent pool.

In the next three years, ICT Health has a vision to 'Create & Deploy' a next generation healthcare information network ecosystem that translates the value made possible by cloud hosting, collaboration, SaaS, mobility, app stores and big data. The organization has achieved significant traction in the Middle East, with 30+ facilities using its technology, serving over 1.2 million patients. It further wishes to establish its footprint in the U.S. & Asia Pacific Markets, as well as North Africa by 2015. It also envisions emerging as global clinical technology solutions & services provider in the near future, living up to its brand tag line 'Taking Care of Healthcare'.


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Achievements:

Enabling Technologies Award for Healthcare 2013by Frost & Sullivan

Products:

HINAI Web, HINAI ImageNET, HINAI PAS, HINAI Care, HINAI Lab, HINAI Medics, HINAI EMR, Automated Medication & Supply

Offices- Dubai (Headquarter)

Headquarter- Dubai

Other Offices- Oman, Bengaluru, Singapore

Key Management

Gautam Dey, CEO, ICT HEALTH

Known as a 'Thought & Business Leader' in Life Care Technology, Gautam has over 19 years of experience in the clinical Technology domain. Prior to heading ICT HEALTH, he held several key roles in organizations like SRIT, IMTAC, BOC India Ltd. amongst others.