Innovative models of healthcare

Dr Renuka David, a TEDx speaker, spoke on leading a happy and healthy life and the need to promote and adopt preventive healthcare strategies, in her address on ‘Innovative models of healthcare’ . Dr David emphasised on the necessity of bringing the patient to the centre of healthcare practice and understanding their needs to make it more patient-centric and thereby more effective and efficient models of healthcare. She spoke on building a lasting bond between healthcare providers and patients.

She spoke on creating a pool of skilled healthcare professionals and building alternate ways of healthcare delivery to meet the growing and changing healthcare demands in  our country. Making a case for home healthcare services, she opined that they can act as a supporting arm to hospitals and enable better healthcare services in the country. She highlighted that as our demographics continue to change, and geriatric population in our country continues to grow, home healthcare will play an important role. Therefore it is pivotal to create a pool of skilled healthcare workers to improve home healthcare services.

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