This story is from June 6, 2016

Tech in healthcare opens up new jobs

Tech in healthcare opens up new jobs
Hyderabad: As the booming healthcare sector increasingly leverages technology to improve its 'operational efficiency', techies in the city are seeing a rise in the number of jobs coming their way from healthcare players.
Confirming the new trend in recruitment, K Hari Prasad, president of the hospitals division of healthcare giant, Apollo Limited, said that the number of techies in its overall workforce has risen from 1% to 4% in the last three years.

"The healthcare sector in the city now leverages technology to create new models of delivery as well as enhance the quality of existing ones. From building a hospital's information system to managing and analyzing data, the role of techies in the healthcare sector has gradually increased over time. The two broad divisions are med-tech, which involves building, operating and maintaining hardware devices, and IT, which deals with data management and analytics," said Prasad.
Srinivas Kollipara, COO (Chief Operations Officer) of the T-Hub, stressed that the healthcare sector has now begun adopting concepts such as 3D printing and big data for process automation.
"Since hardware plays a very important role in the healthcare sector, the scope for innovations is plenty. From using 3D printers for skin replacement to using big data to analyze records, the ways in which the healthcare sector can leverage technology are endless," said Kollipara.
"From local giants such as Dr Reddy's Laboratories to international giants such as Merck, many companies that are looking for specific solutions are now scouting the market and constantly interacting with us to spot startups that are working in niche areas," he added.

While the established healthcare players are recruiting higher number of techies, the new crop of med-tech companies such as Monitra Healthcare, Portea and eKincare, among others, have added to the momentum.
Ravi Bhogu, founder of med-tech startup Monitra Healthcare and an electrical and telecommunications engineer, however, was of the opinion that fresh engineering graduates in the city often need training before they can effectively work on developing hardware for the healthcare sector.
"Due to little or no academic exposure to effectively designing hardware products, it is always best to recruit a techie with a few years of experience of having worked in the hardware space. However, when the company reaches the beta stage, freshers can be recruited to handle embedded systems engineering and database management and analytics," said Bhogu.
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