Why this blog?

I was a little hesitant to start a blog, since I thought there is no point in over crowding blogsphere with yet another blog. But the human urge to express oneself and communicating is very strong, so when there is so much to share why these trivial hesitations should hold me back? So here is the blog.

I am also writing this blog out of sheer enjoyment. In the past, I have written articles and pieces for traditional business media. But now I have a medium to express myself freely.

This blog also gives me an opportunity to share my first-hand experience as a entrepreneur and someone who is watching the maturity of Indian healthcare service delivery and role of technology in it.

Feel free to drop me line : vasukumar.nair (at) gmail.com

Embracing healthcare software applications

Interview published in eHealth

What were some of the key challenges that the Health IT sector faced in 2012?
21st Century Informatics has achieved a few good orders in 2012. For these customers, we are providing solutions ranging from end-to-end hospital information systems to a multi-centred chain of enterprise level solutions. We have leveraged our domain expertise acquired through the last 18 years and continue to provide a scalable, affordable and reliable Hospital Information System. However, the key challenges continue to be slow decision-making and low-budget allocation from the providers’ side. I think there is still lack of awareness on advantages of IT automation and they don’t consider IT as an enabler to improve organisational performance. Finally this will reflect in low IT budgets allocated and sometimes lack of support during the time implementation and that has to be certainly changed.