The Indian healthcare sector is growing at a brisk pace due to its strengthening coverage, services and increasing expenditure by public as well private players, said Arjun Prakash , Chairman, CII Coimbatore Zone & Wholetime Director, Effica Automation.
He was speaking at the CII Healthcare Startup Connect - Future of Healthcare, a virtual event.
Swathy Rohit, conference chairperson and co-founder & CEO, Health Basix, said paradigm shift in healthcare innovation required multidisciplinary and multistakeholder approach with strong collaboration of the players.
J. S. Bhuvaneswaran, c onvenor, CII Coimbatore – Healthcare Panel and Director, PSG Hospitals, said India had various medical services at different levels. Satisfaction was the only expectation from the patients. Developments such as cash to e-transaction, innovations in medical equipment, medical technology and the patient handling had brought a lot of comfortableness between doctors and patients.
S. Chandrakumar , c hairman, CII Tamil Nadu and Founder & Executive Chairman, Kauvery Hospitals, said healthcare used to be very slow in adapting to changes and in the last decade that trend had changed. The COVID-19 pandemic brought technology more closer to healthcare, he added.
Kris Gopalakrishnan , past president, CII, and Chairman, Axilor Ventures, said Coimbatore was well suited for working on healthcare innovations.
S. Prashanth , vice-chairman, CII Coimbatore, and Co-Founder & Director, Quadrasystems.net (I) Pvt. Ltd., said CII Coimbatore would work in stimulating the startups and technology in the best interest and transformation of healthcare sector.
