Vol: 6, Issue: 4 2016

Page: 16-25

Case For Efficient Deployment of Information Technology in Indian Healthcare Sector

Ms. R. M. Devasoorya, Dr. S.V. Srinivasa Vallabhan

Healthcare in India has emerged as an important sunshine sector registering phenomenal growth in recent years. India has world’s second largest population, spread in a vast geographical area with rural-urban divide. The healthcare needs of the people at present, remain ‘underserved’. Growing population, proliferation of new life-style diseases, increasing percentage of the aged and several other factors further aggravate the difficulties in delivering necessary healthcare to all people.