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National Digital Health Mission: The key to affordable health care for all

One often encounters stories of patients and their families suffering from financial losses and succumbing to hidden poverty as a result of catastrophic healthcare expenditures. It is also perplexing to see people living in the shadows of the finest hospitals but unable to access healthcare despite the right to health being declared as a fundamental right …

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Evolving Dynamics of Physician-patient relationship in the age of Precision Healthcare

It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has. Hippocrates The pace of progress in medicine and technology has been rapid as the field is continuously undergoing changes. One such area that is reshaping how medicine is practiced is Precision Medicine. …

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Building trust in healthcare during times of transition

The deep roots never doubt spring will come Marty Rubin In the world of healthcare, trust is often the outcome of several interactions between a physician and their patient. It is the foundation of an effective patient-provider relationship.   Why is building trust between a physician and a patient as well as within an organization …

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Digital Empathy: How can empathy share space amid the digital incursion in healthcare?

“I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person” – Walt Whitman The ongoing pandemic has ushered us into an era of digital revolution, and accelerated the pace of adoption of technology in healthcare. According to a global study conducted by the Economic Intelligence Unit (EIU), India ranked …

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