Siliconindia Magazine

Pratah: Aggregating Disparate Health Care IT Solution Under Single Umbrella

It is undeniable that the healthcare IT industry has been on the rise for quite some time. Experts are optimistic that 2016 will usher healthcare to people's fingertips via smart phones, not merely for health monitoring, but also for diagnosis and treatment. But, being a fairly complex domain with stringent government mandates, it grapples with snail-like pace in innovations and an even slower rate of industry adoption vis-a-vis other industries. Vast domain knowledge being a must factor, the healthcare industry holds higher barriers that prohibit startups from entering - particularly in U.S. The innovations bursting out of these barriers still suffer with limited potential, since they are all locked up in silos. Interoperability being the biggest barrier that blocks data capture and...