Category: Research
The lack of Primary Health Care
By Dr. Zeena Johar and Dr. Nachiket Mor 1 India has some of the best quaternary and tertiary care in the world and is gradually getting to acquire a name for itself even in the field of “Medical Tourism”. Secondary ...
Where are the Doctors? Allopathic doctors in short supply; need for trained practitioners of alternative medicine
By Dr. Arun Jithendra and Dr. Zeena Johar 1 India is a country of 1.2 billion people. One estimate, provided by the World Health Organisation, suggests that on average one physician is required to serve 1,000 people, across all levels ...
Analysing clinical workflow: A day at Alakkudi RMHC
By A.R. Selva Swetha, Research Analyst – ICTPH A key element to the ICTPH Health System Design is protocolisation. All interactions right from patient management at the Rural Micro Health Clinic (RMHC)-level, to patient follow-ups, to household-level surveys and risk-profiling ...
Analysing Patient Data at SughaVazhvu – Chief Complaints and Diagnoses of Patients Belonging to Different Age Groups
by Aarti Sahasranaman, Vice President, Interventions One of the key functions of ICTPH’s Health Management Information System (HMIS) is to collect health information and maintain electronic medical records (EMRs) of each patient who visits a SughaVazhvu rural micro health centre ...
Geo Mapping our Patient Traffic
By Mayank Kedia The public health system places a Primary Health Centre (PHC) to serve a population of about 30,000 people, one for every 10-12 villages and a Health Sub Centres (HSC) for a population of about 5000 people (about ...
Our Managed Care Thinking at ICTPH
By Ankit Jain – AVP Operations, A.R. Selva Swetha – Research Analyst At a recent Spark Session held at IFMR Trust, we presented our Managed Care thinking to the larger ecosystem, outlining our basic premise as to why a Managed ...
'Catastrophic Payments and Impoverishment Due to Out-of-Pocket Health Spending' – A critique
By Karthik Tiruvarur, Assistant Vice President Out-of-pocket (OOP) payments are the principal source of financing healthcare in India and this fact has important consequences for household living standards. The paper “Catastrophic Payments and Impoverishment Due to Out-of-Pocket Health Spending” by ...
Development and Evaluation of Complex Health Care Interventions – Course Organised by Sangath, Goa
By Aarti Sahasranaman, Vice President, Interventions – ICTPH Since 2008, Sangath, a non-profit organisation based in Goa, working in the field of child development, adolescent health and mental health has been organising a course on “Development and Evaluation of Complex ...
Rapid Risk Assessment – Field Experiences from Karambayam
By Selva Swetha, Research Analyst – ICTPH It has been an exciting few weeks in Karambayam, where the mobile-phone-based Enrolment-cum-Rapid Risk Assessment exercise conducted by the Sugha Vazhvu Guides is underway. While the Enrolment process itself is something that we’ve, ...
Partnership with Dimagi: Use of CommCare to carry out Rapid Risk Assessment through Health Extension Workers (HEW) in Karambayam
By Deepak Rajanna, Vice President (Infrastructure and Technology) – ICTPH Our field supervisor, Alex, training the Guides at Karambayam in the use of mobile phones to collect Rapid Risk Assessment data. A preventative approach to health invariably needs a sophisticated ...
- The launch of mobile phone-based rapid risk-profiling of our populations
- Broad-Base Primary Healthcare
- Rapid Risk Assessment - Field Experiences from Karambayam
- Protocolised Patient Management within the ICTPH Health Systems Model
- Developing a framework for community based screening, risk profiling and assessing the true diabetes burden in South Indian Rural Populations by linking Casual Plasma Glucose and Body Mass Index
