Arun Joseph Varghese on December 21, 2014
As we move into the New Year, it would be a good time to recall that in the year 2000, 189 nations made a pledge under the Millennium Declaration and identified 8 goals to be achieved by 2015. These became known as the Millennium Development Goals..
Arun Joseph Varghese on November 4, 2014
It is startling to note that amongst the leading causes of death such as Road Traffic Accidents, lifestyle diseases (such as hypertension and diabetes) and chronic diseases (such as pneumonia, AIDS etc), ranks death due to ADRs (Adverse Drug..
Arun Joseph Varghese on November 3, 2014
Insta HMS is now being used by over 350 healthcare providers in over 10 countries across segments such as clinic, home-care givers, labs, pharmacies and tertiary care hospitals. One of the reasons that have fuelled large scale Insta HMS adoption has..
Arun Joseph Varghese on September 23, 2014
The Agile Software methodology is an iterative software development process that many product and service oriented companies take to achieve a faster turn-around and incorporate customer feedback at early stages of development. In the traditional..
Arun Joseph Varghese on September 23, 2014
This article summarizes some of the top reasons that lead to Organizations adopting new HMS/EMR applications. More often than not due diligence is done by the management and the IT department and often the below points are considered:
Arun Joseph Varghese on July 19, 2014
An ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) is a business process management software that allows an organization to use a system of integrated applications to manage the business and automate Back-Office functions. A generic ERP Software integrates all..
Arun Joseph Varghese on May 14, 2014
Generically, IT implementations across verticals have a failure rate of 35%. This article explores a few amongst a plethora of reasons as to why health IT projects have a high failure rate and is an attempt to learn as to how to mitigate them.
Arun Joseph Varghese on April 18, 2014
Those who foot the bill define the rules of the game and the payers seem to be doing exactly that in the world of healthcare, pushing the providers to be accountable for their quality and effectiveness in their treatment of patients. It’s not..
Arun Joseph Varghese on February 25, 2014
When the Banking sector is moving into Big Data and Analytics to perform analysis on customer segmentation, risk management and drilled down detailed product portfolio trends the hospital/healthcare segment is still debating the adoption of IT.