US debt crisis: Mark Cuban warns America’s $38 trillion debt is tied to broken healthcare pricing - here’s his solutionMark Cuban warns about US debt crisis: Cuban argues that overhauling healthcare, particularly insurance and drug pricing, can significantly...
08 Jan, 2026, 12.17 AM IST
AI tools help you solve problems, be better prosDeepak Agarwal, global chief AI officer at LinkedIn, told ET that in job search, AI no longer offers passive assistance. AI is reshaping wo...
30 Sep, 2025, 05.35 PM IST
Is 'patient-centredness' becoming a sarcastic oxymoron, like 'business ethics'?Hospitals often tout being 'patient-centered', yet bureaucracy stresses both patients and their attendants. Without accessible clinical out...
19 Feb, 2025, 12.30 AM IST
National digital drugs databank will help address 'information asymmetry' in pharma space: CCI studyA national digital drugs databank will help in addressing "information asymmetry" as well as provide key inputs in mapping the regulatory n...
19 Nov, 2021, 03.58 PM IST
Digital health startup Navia Life Care raises $1 million in fundingThe investment was led by Anicut Angel Fund, the equity arm of Anicut Capital, with participation from 9Unicorns and angel investors.
18 Aug, 2021, 12.35 PM IST
- Cost-Benefit Analyses
For many years, economists did not treat health economics differently at all. But a seminal paper published in 1963 by Stanford professor K...
29 Apr, 2021, 11.17 AM IST
Funding and MSMEs: Can banks & fintech together address the credit gap for small businesses?With the COVID 19 pandemic disrupting economic activities worldwide, the role of fintech, banks, and NBFCs in powering small businesses in ...
18 Feb, 2021, 02.33 PM IST
India's Covid vaccination drive will lead its self reliance journeyHow we handle the COVID19 vaccination project for 1.3 billion people in India will determine the pace of our economic rebound in the short ...
06 Feb, 2021, 11.23 AM IST
View: Survey bats for countercyclical fiscal policyFor all the hardships that year 2020 had, the Economic Survey 2020-21 is mostly on expected lines. The Part II of the Survey presents the e...
30 Jan, 2021, 09.49 AM IST
Economic Survey bats for big expansion of govt spendingThe economy had been slowing even before the pandemic: growth was 6.5% in 2018-19 and 4% in 2019-20. The pandemic shrank the economy by 7.7...
30 Jan, 2021, 09.48 AM IST
Economic Survey: Healthcare needs a shot of fundsIt observed that India has one of the highest levels of OOPE in the world, contributing directly to the high incidence of catastrophic expe...
30 Jan, 2021, 07.49 AM IST
Economic Survey recommends creation of a regulatory body for the healthcare sectorIt said that since the bulk of healthcare in India (74 percent of outpatient care and 65 percent of hospitalisation) is provided through th...
29 Jan, 2021, 08.35 PM IST
Economic Survey 2021 marks the importance of investing and strengthening the public health system“Healthcare policy must not become beholden to “saliency bias”, where policy overweights a recent phenomenon,” believes the Chief Economic ...
29 Jan, 2021, 03.37 PM IST
Has WTO TRIPS Agreement of IPR promoted global innovation“We need to reflect more as to how much of innovation has the WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights has ac...
05 Dec, 2020, 03.32 PM IST
India pitches for easier cross-border movement of healthcare professionalsNew Delhi on Tuesday told the multilateral trade body that restrictive trade practices in the services sector have led to inability of coun...
15 Oct, 2020, 01.37 PM IST
NPPA's latest price control measure may hurt Indian pharma industry in long runResorting to price control as the easy way to affordability could drive quality out of the market, if not drug availability.
17 Jul, 2014, 06.29 AM IST
Making markets work for the poor: Chit funds are the killer inclusion product, not bank accountsThe task of making markets work for them is to enable their money to stretch and buy them the things that they need.
02 Mar, 2012, 08.59 AM IST