Key Note Address @ Science and Technology Week JWTC GE Bangalore

I got a rare honor: I was invited by GE to deliver a Key Note Address @ the Science and Technology Week in JWTC GE Bangalore on 16th May 2016. I spoke about the New Healthcare Aggregators: SMAC and IoT.

The era of hierarchical command and control is over. Now is the time for horizontal networking across Communities of Practice [CoP]. Whatever gets the maximum likes becomes the In Thing. Whatever is the In Thing gets used the maximum. Students are learning more from the online networking than from the formal classroom and professors. Research will reach the point of use as soon as it gets published. Primary care Providers in semi-urban and rural areas will have access to latest therapeutic recommendations. The old Adage that 'Knowledge is the only form of power that is not expendable but grows when shared' has become true.

There is a huge Vacuum in Indian Healthcare-IT space. Large Healthcare-IT vendors have exited the market. Either they lost interest and exited or got bought out. Also the market is moving from client-server to cloud and from Capex to Opex models. New cloud based players are small in size and yet to reach enterprise class. Existing players are not able to shift out to cloud because of their long term negotiated contracts in client-server model. The time is now when full conversion of Enterprise class to SMAC will happen anyways. Healthcare CIOs can keep eyes closed or tighten the belt and ride the Digital wave.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/new-healthcare-aggregators-smac-iot-dr-pankaj-gupta