Hospitals offer intensive care from afar

India has seven doctors for every 10 000 people, half the global average, according to WHO

The Indian Medical Association shows the country needs more than 50,000 critical care specialists, but has just 8,350.
Such a shortage of doctors means small facilities in India’s $55 billion private hospital market are ill equipped to provide critical care even as numbers seeking private health care rise because the public health system is in even worse shape.
India’s largest health care chain, Apollo Hospitals Enterprise and Fortis will this year expand their network of electronic intensive care units (eICUs), scaling up operations thanks to advances in communications technology….India’s eICU beds will expand by 15-20 per cent each year from about 3000 in 2016.
Hospitals charge between 10$ and 30$ a day to virtually monitor a patient from their eICUs, with revenues shared between hospitals and companies such as General Electric and Philips that have developed the tracking software. That comes on top of the standard critical care costs of about $200 a day in a small city hospital.

Technology assists in increasing the action radius of critical care specialists. CMEPEDIA adds value in a similar way, by reducing the time spend on professional development and to make content readily available to all health care professionals.