Some months ago, I talked about the great expectations healthcare has from Big Data. Big Data finds the perfect applications in healthcare but the variegated availability of data at our disposal make the fit extremely difficult to meet. There is pati...

Last week, I attended the SAP India Forum for Public Service one trend that was easily perceptible during the healthcare panel discussions was the epidemic and scare of chronic diseases or non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in rural India and the scarc...

Science fiction has often shaped much of what becomes reality in the future. Mark Twain’s science fiction story entitled From The London Times was the first to introduce a technology concept that would later become a major necessity for humanity: “Th...

In the beginning of one of Charles Dickens’ classics, a young benevolent English orphan boy named Pip fell in love with beautiful and rich lass, received a large sum of money from an unknown benefactor and was told he would go to London to become a “...

Life Sciences companies have reached a tipping point with a recent sequence of external events forcing the industry to re-evaluate their strategies and rethink their goals. On one hand the drug patents for some of the most blockbuster drugs started t...