The third International Congress on Transforming Healthcare with ICT has been organised this year on 31st August, 2012. Through this Conference, we wanted to bring all the healthcare eco-system players on a global platform, to participate, propagate and promote the various technology driven transformational approaches, solutions and their benefits to the grassroots, administrators, providers, and research community and to find ways to achieve the goal of equitable, sustainable, quality healthcare system.

Apollo Hospitals, the pioneer of integrated healthcare delivery in India, along with the Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) inaugurated an annual healthcare conference FICCI Heal 2014, with the theme “Innovation Enabling Access “at Delhi. The conference was held on 1st – 2nd September 2014 and focused on various opportunities and challenges to promote innovation which can change the current paradigms and move towards better, efficient and cheaper methods for accessible, affordable and quality healthcare in India.

The FICCI Healthcare Excellence Awards aims at felicitating organizations and individuals for their contribution to the industry by innovating for increased efficiency and improved performance of healthcare delivery at large.

Apollo Hospitals Chennai, Hyderabad and Kolkata bagged awards at the Asian Hospital Management Awards, 2011, ceremony held in Singapore.The Asian Hospital Management Awards recognizes and honors hospitals in Asia that carry out best hospital practices. Now in its 10TH YEAR, it is the accepted hospital management awards program for the Asia Pacific region. Awards are given to hospitals in the region that, in the opinion of the judges and advisers, have implemented or enhanced outstanding and innovative projects, programs, and best practices during the previous year.

A new dedicated specially designed Nile Pax stent was used by Dr. G. Sengottuvelu, Senior Consultant & Interventional Cardiologist, Apollo Hospitals, Chennai to clear the blockage that was formed in the coronary artery involving two branches.

The FICCI, the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Healthcare Excellence Awards, 2011 conferred the “Lifetime Achievement Award”(FICCI) to Dr. Prathap C Reddy, Chairman, Apollo Hospitals Group. This award felicitates individuals who moved the needle and raised the bar. Dr. Reddy transformed a nation’s health and institutionalized a culture of excellence when he built Apollo Hospitals. It celebrates his never-ending and relentless journey of service to the patient.

An ICU admission is an extremely traumatic event for the patient as well as for their near and dear ones. To ensure maximum clinical care and to reduce the chances of infection, physical visits to ICU’s by relatives and friends are kept to the absolute minimum. It is also impractical for the primary consultant to make repeated physical visits to the ICU, in order to review the patients. The family would like a status report directly from the primary consultant in the presence of the patient. In an ICU setting sometimes, this is not always possible.

Apollo Founder Prathap C Reddy laid the foundation of healthcare for profit in the country. Building on the idea, today there are hundreds of world-class hospitals in India. But BV Mahalakshmi & Sudhir Chowdhary, Financial Express, discover that the 79-year-old’s zeal is nowhere diminished, and he has greater plans in the pipeline.

Spinal surgery on tumors involving the spinal cord is the most challenging of all due to its high risk of possibly precipitating the neurological deficits that are disastrous.
Tumors that arise in the cervical ( neck ) region of the spinal cord are rare and pose great challenge to the Neurosurgeons. The tumor expand the spinal cord and produce neurological deficits viz; sensory and motor ( weakness of limbs/paralysis). Neither all spinal cord tumors can be totally removable nor they are greatly amenable for radiotherapy too.

Mohammad Ali, native of Mauritius, a patient of Ewing’s Sarcoma, a patient of malignant (cancerous) bone tumor that affects children, underwent a Total Femur Replacement surgery performed by Prof. Dr.Mayilvahanan Natarajan and team, Apollo Specialty Hospital, Chennai, which has enabled him to walk again !