From chaos to clarity
The private healthcare market in India, estimated to double from the present Rs 69,000 crore by 2012, is in a state of flux. Growing public awareness, rapid technological advances, the likely impact of insurance, and corporatisation is rapidly altering the patterns of hospital administration.

“We offer language interpreter for health tourists”
Dr Pratap Reddy, Chairman, Apollo Group, reveals the different “add-ons” that he uses to promote medical tourism.

From the Editor’s Desk
Express Healthcare Management now completes its third year of publication catering to the changing needs of healthcare professionals in India.

`Hospitals cannot be treated like any other service sector’
Even as the age-old debate on whether a medico would make a better hospital administrator or a non-medico continues, industry observers now feel that only professional management is the key to a hospital’s success.

Management

Legalities

Leaders of the future must grab the opportunity of change
Aplasia cases suspected in H’bad, Chennai; Docs switch brands
Facility for Stem cell bank and research to come up in Hyd

Debate

Six sigma

Healthcare must adapt the sigma view of analysis
The modern concept of quality in healthcare is developed from various concepts of quality in manufacturing, which were later applied to services and thereafter to healthcare.

Seminar on role of grading
ICRA and Associated Chambers Of Commerce and Industry Of India (ASSOCHAM) are jointly organising a seminar on External Assessment of Healthcare Quality: Role of Gradings.