Healthcareworld 2010- Medical tradeshow in India

HealthcareWorld 2010, a medical exhibition organised by Express Healthcare, has been planned with one point mission=”to bring its exhibitors the audiences they want”. It would also provide a green zone, seminar and an award show.


HealthcareWorld 2010 is being organised by the Express Group and Express Healthcare, India’s leading Healthcare Business Magazine. Federation of Hospital Administration (FHA) and The Association of Hospitals (AOH) are the supporting associations for this tradeshow. Manipal Hospital, Bangaluru, Jaslok Hospital, Mumbai, PD Hinduja Hospital, Mumbai, Dr LH Hiranandani Hospital, Mumbai, Kerala Institute Of Medical Sciences, Thiruvananthapuram and Max Healthcare are supporting HealthcareWorld 2010. Hosmac is a knowledge partner and BOC, a member of The Linde Group, is associating with HealthcareWorld 2010 as a Green Zone Partner.


Dr Vivek Desai, Managing Director, Hosmac India Private Limited, hopes that “Such a forum will help create better relationship between various stakeholders in a fragmented but rapidly growing healthcare industry. It will also sensitise people to new technologies which helps integrate functions, thereby improving efficiency.”




The main events planned for this forum include-

• HealthcareLive

* HealthcareLive is a strategic zone that will let you build real-life, real-time models for ICU, critical care, imaging and diagnostics.
* It will also bring the very decision makers you seek into direct contact with your product.
* With HealthcareLive you will get an opportunity to let the industry know your product USP and why it need to be on their ‘Must Buy’ list.

• Healthcare Roundtables

* Healthcare Roundtables will feature opinion leaders and experts discussing key healthcare issues.
* These Roundtables will be held for key segments like critical care, imaging, diagnostics and IT.
* This will build interest and provide maximum mileage for these key segments.

• Green Zone

This unique concept with the name Green Zone will be held in a special pavilion on the emerging environment friendly technology segment.


* Green Zone will bring together leading companies, technology providers, consultants and decision makers.
* GreenHealthcare Seminar will bring along consultations with key prospects.

• Meet the Consultants

* Meeting with consultants will bring together Medical Directors, Nursing Homes, Managers, HODs, & CTOs with leading consultants.
* There will be consultant booths for one-on-one meetings and roundtables featuring guest speakers.
* This will provide the perfect opportunity to the companies who seek to reach and influence key decision makers across the industry.

• Launch Site

* Launch Site is going to be for companies looking for the perfect platform to launch their latest offerings.
* Launch Site will provide a special stage and a space will also be allotted for collateral/ posters/ demonstration/ presentation.
* It will be aggressively promoted at the event and will be staged between 3 pm to 4 pm on all days.


Visitor Profile-
* Doctors/ Specialists
* Hospital Managers and HODs
* Medical Directors
* Diagnostic Centers
* Biomedical Engineers
* Health Care Services
* Investors for Health Care Industry
* Healthcare Services
* Investors for Healthcare Industry
* Medical Professionals
* Medical Research Institutes
* Diagnostic Centers
* Clinical Laboratories
* Rehabilitation Organisations
* lCare Services & Self-help groups


HealthcareWorld 2010 promises to be a “Happening” conference and i hope to see a lot of “Bright ideas” there.

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The male foreskin is dangerous- Circumcision protects .

                  Health information politicized

Doesn’t the public have the right to know that male circumcision protects against HIV?

In 2007, the ethical landscape surrounding medical male circumcision (MC) suddenly lurched and shifted when the World Health Organization and UNAIDS declared unequivocally that the `efficacy of male circumcision in reducing female to male transmission of HIV has been proven beyond reasonable doubt.The male foreskin has been shown to have a high number of cells that were targeted by the HIV virus

Interestingly, evidence that MC had medical benefits has been mounting for more than 20 years. Not only does the procedure reduce the risk of HIV infection, it also has been shown  to

• prevent urinary tract infections,

• sexually transmitted diseases, and

• penile and prostate cancers.

Researchers have even found that MC reduces the risk of cervical cancer in current female partners . In spite of that growing list of medical benefits, the issue has hovered just below the radar screen until several large randomised controlled studies from Africa showed that circumcision offered a 60% to 70% protective effect against the heterosexual acquisition of HIV. The evidence was so compelling that three of the studies were stopped early, on the recommendation of Data Safety and Monitoring Boards

The Government of India has been reluctant to approach an issue that
promises to be controversial among conservative Hindus. MC is
considered a marker of religious identity since Muslims routinely
circumcise their male children, and Hindus do not. It has been
suggested that at times, circumcision status may even have been used to
identify people`s religious affiliation during communal riots.
Popular wisdom holds that even the mention of MC in some communities
will trigger sectarian violence. Predictably, some opponents have
argued that the greater good of society must be protected by
withholding information about MC from the population.

This is a joke, surely?

They wont tell the benefits of circumcision because they want to use it to identify Muslims?

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India needs IT based health delivery system

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New Delhi: The National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) International Advisory Panel Chairperson Jeffrey Sachs has called upon India to implement IT based health delivery system in the country.

The Columbia University Professor, while praising India’s effort for closing gap on the health mission under the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) with the other countries, however, said that the country needs to make more investment in the sector. “India should step up the budgetary allocation in health sector to four to five per cent of the GDP,” Sachs said adding that a higher investment in the health sector will give great social returns.

Calling the NRHM as one of the most remarkable achievements in public health sector, he said that India’s dramatic improvement in the health sector have been made possible due to enhanced partnership between the centre, state and local units.

Sachs, who is also the advisor to UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, said that the increase in institutional delivery and drop in mortality is especially impressive.

Arguing for an IT-based health delivery system, Sachs added that India can serve as a role model for other countries in the health sector.Having travelled to a few Indian states, he also said that there is, however, a need for more human resources and logistical support.

He was speaking with the media after a meeting with the Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Anbumani Ramadoss and the senior officials of the Ministry for the fifth meeting of the Panel in New Delhi on Tuesday. The advisory panel meeting was also attended by Health Ministers of three African countries— Kenyan Minister for Medical Services Peter Anyag ‘Nyong’ O, Malawi Minister of Health Khumbo Kachali, and Rawanda’s Minister of Health Rechard Sezibera

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-A Fantastic Medical Informatics conference in India

Just back from the Meditel 2008, the fifth International conference on Medical informatics and Telemedicine. The theme of the conference this year was “ICT for Medical Education and Research” and there were some pretty sharp presentations in Medical e.learning. Hopefully, as promised, most of the presentations would be available on the MCSI website soon.

The few presentations i thoroughly enjoyed included,

• E-Learning- Current trends in India- by Dr.Balasubramanyam, Prof. and head, Dept. of Anatomy, SJMC, Bangalore.

• Cochrane Collaboration- Informed healthcare in South Asia- Dr.Pratap Tharyan

• Improving Healthcare via Transparent monitoring- Mr.Bill Thies, MIT and Microsoft ( use of microchip within pill boxes to monitor compliance in National health programs like DOTS India.)

• World”s first prepaid service for Doctors consultation from any Phone- by Mr.Sunil Kulkarni, Group President, Oxigen Services (India) Pvt. Ltd.( a beautiful concept to allow pre-paying for telephonic medical consultations)

There were a number of other interesting ones, like this Virtual conference using Webex services, via a lowly Tata Indicom plug2surf device !!

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-Cannot treat without I.T support?

We know that wider adoption of healthcare information technology (HIT) results in better patient care. Here, in India, most medical students learn to use HIT after they start working as Doctors. Many medical students use the net to study, at a personal level, but institutional use of IT in Indian Medical colleges and associated hospitals is very low.

But here is a study with a very different perspective regarding HIT.

“About 80 percent of the 328 Vanderbilt graduates who participated in the study were working in an environment with less IT. According to the study, they reported “feeling less able to practice safe patient care, to utilize evidence at the point of care, to work efficiently, to share and communicate information and to work effectively within the local system.”

Used to IT support in decision making, Medical students were left flabbergasted when they had to provide healthcare from Knowledge. Definitely not a very good sign.

Read the study on Healthcareitnews here.

Evangelizing Swathya Beema Yogana in Rajasthan

RAKSHA (Registered society for knowledge and health activities) is a Rajasthan based non-profit organization working for democratization of knowledge and health. It is headed by 1)Dr.Neelesh Bhandari, a Armed forces Medical College passout, a pathologist, post graduate in Human Rights and a medical multimedia consultant. Dr.Neelesh has more than ten years of experience in public health administration, of which about Eight years is in Rajasthan Public service commission. 2) Dr. Preeti Lodha, a psychiatrist and health rights activist with more than ten years of experience in public health administration, of which about Eight years is in Rajasthan Public service commission. Additionally, Dr. Preeti has previous experience of One year as a Project Manager in Operation Veerni. ( A maternal and child health project run by Apollo Rajdadiji Hospital, Jodhpur with international assistance).

The Swasthya Beema Yogana is an ambitious programme meant to provide cashless health care services to the poor in Rajasthan and India.

-Health Raksha Campaign, Rajasthan-

• The main aims of the Project-

1) Creating New multimedia/video content for public awareness
2) Displaying multimedia content at important rural junctions using Audio-visual equipment and via local cable and news channels.Permanent IEC Boards ( 4 feet by 2 feet) to be erected at more than one thousand sites.
3) Explaining the benefits of the scheme to Doctors and health workers.
4) Screening BPL families and referring appropriate cases to public hospitals.
5) Collect data on baseline health status and scheme usage trends amongst the BPL families.

• Broadly, the project would consist of

1) Four vehicles, armed with Audio-visual equipment ( Television and CD player) to be leased for One year.
2) Each vehicle manned by one driver, one paramedical staff and one Technician, ie 3 personnel.( Total Twelve employees in four vehicles). Supervision over Four vehicles by Two doctors ( Dr.Neelesh Bhandari,Pathologist and Dr.Preeti Lodha, Psychiatrist).
3) Each vehicle entrusted with carrying out IEC activities in Six ( or seven) Districts.( Total 25 districts)
4) Each vehicle makes a minimum of twenty (20) visits per month.( Total approx. One thousand visits over 25 districts in one year) These visits would be prefixed in consultation with local authorities and would consist of rural junctions with high BPL population/attendees ( like Tehsil offices, hospitals, panchayat bhawan, Bus stops, subordinate courts etc.)
5) Dr.Neelesh Bhandari and Dr.Preeti Lodha to make regular monthly visits to various district hospitals, CHCs etc. to give multimedia presentations on the Scheme to the medical and paramedical staff. These visits shall coincide with monthly block/CHC meetings and achieve the dual purpose of training and sensitization of health workers and Doctors. All District hospitals and medical staff at CHCs in all 25 districts to be covered over one year.

• Creating New Multimedia

1) For this campaign original video content shall be produced . Promotional content shot in TV studios ( Surya Cine vision, Mumbai and MEdRC, Hyderabad), Interviews with BPL families and officials on site, health education videos and other such content shall be produced. RAKSHA expects to produce original video content of Tens of hours over One year. All intellectual property rights to the multimedia content will be equally shared between RAKSHA and Controlling agency / ICICI Lombard.All the content shall be branded and provided to local cable channels, TV stations and also published on our youtube channel on medical education.
2) Each visit shall be recorded via Still photographs which shall be posted on a dedicated Flickr channel created for this purpose.Copies of photographs shall be distributed to all the local newspapers. Close to five thousand photographs ( Five photographs per visit X approx. 1000 visits) shall be published on the internet.
3) All the events shall be chronicled ( updated every three days) on a new blogspot/wordpress blog created for this purpose.
Such extensive self publication via youtube, blogs and Flickr.com shall also assist in Remote Monitoring of the campaign by state and central authorities at ICICI Lombard.

• During each visit by the mobile team, the activities carried out would include

1) Set up the TV and the CD player
2) Give short talks on the Bima Yojana to the gathering
3) Distribute pamphlets and other brochures.
4) Provide OTC medication only to BPL families. This will be done primarily to attract the Target audience.The seriously ill amongst these families to be referred to nearby hospitals with instructions to avail the Bima Yojana. Data regarding total number of patients seen and referred to be conveyed monthly to ICICI Lombard.

This is the skeleton sketch of the proposed Project to conduct IEC and other Promotional activities in the state of Rajasthan over one year. Initially, the four vehicles shall concentrate on the four districts of Jhalawad, Rajsamand, Barmer and Bikaner ( as recommended by you). Later, all the remaining districts shall be covered in equal proportions during the year. RAKSHA shall operate locally in conjunction with public health authorities and local NGOs like Bharat Vikas Parishad., Manav sewa sansthan and others.RAKSHA shall strive to create new partnerships with national and international organizations by using United Nations platforms like solution exchange.to furthur extend the reach of this campaign.

Copies of all the multimedia content along with analysis of before-after data accumulated over the year shall be handed over to Controlling agency / ICICI Lombard at the end of the year.

Kindly email me for receiving a detailed project report. If approved, RAKSHA can initiate the project from the First of January, 2009.

Dr. Neelesh Bhandari
MBBS(AFMC), MD(Path.)
P.G.P. in Human Rights
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- HMIS for India-

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India launches health management info portal : iGovernment
New Delhi: The Government of India on Tuesday launched the Health Management Information System (HMIS) portal to convert local health data into real time useful information, management indicators and trends which could be displayed graphically in the reports.

Launching the portal, Health and Family Welfare Secretary Naresh Dayal said that real time data provided by the web-enabled technologies will strengthen the monitoring and would enable policy makers to make better decisions for public health delivery.

The new system envisages enhancing the information flow at various levels and providing useful and timely inputs for programme development, monitoring and midcourse interventions in the
policies. Recognising the need for an information base, one of the core strategies of the strengthening capacities for data collection, assessment and review for evidence based planning,
monitoring and supervision, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has established this dedicated portal for all public health related information.

The HMIS portal captures data to be collected as per the revised HMIS formats on a web-based system at the District level so that the primary data can be easily aggregated and the information and reports flow quickly to the state head quarters and the Ministry.

The system also enables information to be entered for each facility so that MIS reporting can be of a better quality.

The application has been developed by the Ministry in technical collaboration with iBILT Technologies who will also be providing maintenance and support to the application for the next five years.

The portal will be generating unique intelligence reports using the advanced SAS Data Warehousing platform and explore and establish new linkages and advanced analysis for policy initiatives.