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Medtech signs MoUs with Indian NGOs

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MUMBAI, INDIA: Medtech Global Limited, New Zealand's top healthcare practice management solutions provider, has partnered with India's two leading non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to supply practice management solutions in the rural healthcare sector.

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According to Medtech's executive chairman Vino Ramayah, the company has signed two memorandums of understanding (MoUs) with Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute and National Agro Foundation. These MoUs were signed during the New Zealand Prime Minister John Key's visit to India in June.

“Under these agreements, Medtech will implement its healthcare practice management solutions for both NGOs and will help in maintaining and protecting records and information of patients and their health history,” Ramayah told CyberMedia News.

“These solutions are key to the management of health records of patients and will help the doctors and nurses in providing healthcare as well as telemedicine services in rural India. Our aim is to help to improve the rural healthcare, as the doctor-patient ratio is very low,” he said.

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Besides, Medtech is running six tele-healthcare pilot projects in remote villages of Tamil Nadu. Upon the completion of the six months, the pilot projects will be rolled out in some 300 villages more villages in various other states, he added.

“At present the All India Institute of Medical Sciences and several other leading hospital groups in the country have shown interest in our practice management solutions. In addition, we have data mining tools which enable doctors for data analysis of patients and their health condition and history,” he explained.

“We are also collaborating with some Indian companies and academic institutes for research and development (R&D) activities in the the Pharmacokinetics area,” Ramayah added.

The company has set up its base in Chennai and Delhi. It dominates the healthcare technology market with over 90 per cent market share in New Zealand, 30 per cent in Australia and has significant footprint in the US and Europe.

Roughly, the healthcare IT segment is growing at a CAGR of 25 per cent and modestly growing around $200-300 million annually as per the industry estimates. “However, it's relatively low compared to the total population,” he concluded.