If you had Rs 15 lakh, would you spend it on ultrasound equipment or on implementing information technology in your hospital? This is the nature of the dilemma doctors and healthcare providers face in India.

IT companies ought to conduct awareness programmes to help hospitals understand how technology can ‘transform’ their work. But few software vendors are doing this, say healthcare players, an impression strengthened by the poor turnout at Frost and Sullivan’s two-day conference on ‘IT Advancements in Healthcare ... more>>>