Dear Readers,

Hope the New Year is proving fruitful for you!

It sure is proving beneficial to a lot of areas in healthcare. Our Cover Story this time uncovers one such aspect which is growing by leaps and bounds, Teleradiology. We got one of the best in the field to bring to you the latest advancements taking place in this sector. Dr. Arjun Kalyanpur has done complete justice to the topic by proving an informative overview of the subject.

There has been a lot of talk about ‘going green’ recently. Ever imagined even dentistry can go green? Well, our author for Strategy sure thought so. Read the section to know more about this upcoming area, Green Dentistry, which can be strategically used to reduce our carbon footprint on Earth.

With the growing number of ageing population in India, the need for joint replacements is also growing rapidly. Our Special Feature this issue focuses on this very subject and brings to you an informative article on the advancements taking place in joint replacement surgery.

Every now and then hospitals face a medico-legal charge by patients or relatives. How can a hospital combat with it? How can they learn from other such cases? Read our Voices section to know more about this.

The emergence of corporate healthcare players left a void in the system, that of a General Practitioner. This need was seen by a bunch of clinicians, who then thought of filling this void by their project called NationWide. To know more about this old-yet-new concept read our Interview of the Month section.

As we think of the advancements in medicine, and what cardiac technologies will help to meet India’s needs  - both today and in the future - it is amazing to see just how far we have come. Our expert this month dwells on this very aspect: Latest trends and future aspects of Cardiovascular Devices in the section Expert Corner. Read it to get an in-depth knowledge of what’s going on in this segment of the market. 

Happy Reading!

Jayata Sharma
Editor-in-chief
Health Biz India
editorial@healthbizindia.com