Technology in healthcare presents major opportunities for US-India collaboration

Increasing role of technology, artificial intelligence, data analytics and digitisation of healthcare in India, present a huge opportunity for collaboration between the United States and India, panelists deliberated in the US-India strategic partnership forum in New Delhi on Monday.

The panelists at the session -- Balancing Cost and Innovation in India’s Healthcare Market -- discussed how India’s health sector is evolving, and still very informal. “In urban areas, health care is very much private government’s role was in setting up in medical colleges. In rural areas, govt tried to set up clinics and infrastructures, but did not see much success," said Arvind Panagariya, professor of economic at Columbia University. “There is a really critical issue of lack of trained doctors and medical professionals, most people learn on the job and therefore unable to provide top-quality care."

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