“Technology will dramatically change healthcare in India” | FactorDaily
Dr Devi Shetty of Narayana Health believes even regular mobile phones have enough power to make medical diagnoses. ?You just need the right data, that?s all,? he says. And in a few years, he says, it will become legally mandatory for doctors to take second opinions from software before starting treatment.
- Surgeon-entrepreneur Dr Devi Shetty of Narayana Health believes even regular mobile phones have enough power to make medical diagnoses.
- He believes that in a few years it will become legally mandatory for doctors to take second opinions from software before starting treatment.
- Dr Shetty : See, the problem of the healthcare industry is, if you look at all the big multinational Indian IT companies in Electronic City, in front of no technology company will you find a poor man sitting with this child and saying, ‘I want free software.’
- Whereas, in front of any hospital in most developing countries, which account for nearly 80% of the world’s population, there are always people begging doctors to save their child or loved one.
- The kind of things a software does today, whatever the diagnosis, even a very cheap mobile phone has enough power to make a diagnosis.
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