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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Editor's note: The business casualties of the COVID-19 pandemic are many in India: travel, hospitality, lending, food delivery, media, etc. But one industry that will see a revolution of a different sort is healthcare—the pandemic has accelerated interest in digital health, from telemedicine to machine learning. One of the best positioned to take advantage of this shift is Microsoft, across both its cloud offerings and its software-as-a-service tools. To take an immediate example, consider telemedicine. Virtual consultations with doctors have for long been in a regulatory grey area in India; there were no rules specific to teleconsultation, and hospitals have avoided it, especially in the wake of a 2018 Bombay high court judgement against a pair of doctors for medical negligence for advice given over the phone. Although several health-tech startups like Practo and Lybrate have had doctors offer teleconsultation in recent years, there was no statutory basis or support. This changed with the pandemic, and the Medical Council of India on 25 March (a day after the government announced a national lockdown) published the Telemedicine Practice Guidelines, clearing teleconsultation and specifying …
India’s leading tech hardware distribution company is making the most of the unprecedented rise in global prices of laptops and other tech hardware. There’s just one problem.
A public listing will help clean up the hospital chain’s balance sheet after the costly Sahyadri acquisition. But depressed metrics, integration risks and lofty valuations make this far from a clean turnaround story.
Even though the government of India did a U-turn on the mandatory pre-installation of the anti-fraud app on all mobile phones sold or imported in the country, the larger problem of petty cybercrime remains grim.
