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FICCI launches Telangana healthcare panel with AI focus
FICCI has launched its first Telangana healthcare panel in Hyderabad to draw up policy recommendations for the state government. The panel will focus on AI-enabled, preventive and accessible healthcare, medical tourism, and…
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FICCI has launched its first Telangana healthcare panel in Hyderabad to draw up policy recommendations for the state government. The panel will focus on AI-enabled, preventive and accessible healthcare, medical tourism, and skilling the healthcare workforce.
At the launch conference, experts said AI could enable early disease prediction and better integration of fragmented patient records. Dr Mona Duggal of ICMR called for moving from health records to 'wellness records'. Dr Chinna Babu, the panel's co-chair, stressed the need to extend preventive care to tier-2 and tier-3 cities, where poor infrastructure forces patients to travel to larger cities, increasing out-of-pocket costs.
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The narrative around AI in healthcare often swings between utopian cure-alls and dystopian job-killers. The real test is in the gaps this panel must address: the digitisation that remains incomplete despite heavy investment, and the tier-2 city infrastructure that forces patients into expensive travel. Watch whether the panel's policy recommendations, expected in 2025, actually earmark funds for upgrading district hospital IT systems, or merely serve as a talking shop for medical tourism.
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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