Vijaya Times, 21 July 2004
CPO should open window to opportunities
Niranjan Nikam
'Healthcare business at affordable costs is what I was looking at and this is where the role of telemedicine comes into play. For this, I looked at a model that could catapult the country into the global scene and so Televital was launched to ensure that physical distances do not obstruct quality healthcare in the remotest parts of the country'
Bangalore: Mysore-born NRI billionaire, Kumar Malavalli has professed enhancing the existing Indian telemedicine infrastructure and exploiting the opportunities to enable doctors in remote areas of the country to access foreign health specialists.
This could be done by shifting the focus from business process outsourcing (BPO) to clinical process outsourcing (BPO) to clinical process outsourcing (CPO), in which telemedicine network can be globally expanded and even doctors as far as USA can access Indian specialists for consultancy in areas of medicine, Malavalli, a reputed software expert-cum-philanthropist, and co-founder of Brocade Communications Inc, told Vijaya Times.
"India has an excellent chance to move from BPO to CPO, and once the legal aspects and other technical details are worked out, it would open up a window of opportunities," he says.
The US-based Malavalli, who was in the City recently, said this could be facilitated through the expansion of the telemedicine network developed by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
"Healthcare business at affordable costs is what I was looking at and this is where the role of telemedicine comes into play. For this, I looked at a model that could catapult the country into the global scene and so Televital (a company promoted by Malavalli making telemedicine software) was launched to ensure that physical distances do not obstruct quality healthcare in the remotest parts of the country," Malavalli said.
Malavalli's Indian venture capital promoted firms are Edurite, where e-learning software takes care of quality teaching, Abhay Systems, Cyera and Apara. "We have introduced e-learning (through Edurite) by donating computers to many government schools in Karnataka and elsewhere and teachers have also responded magnificently as they realise the importance of students interacting with the best teachers to learn the most difficult subjects," he said. He said Abhay Systems protection services while the latter ensuring security for the data.
Adding value to all this is Apara, which has a US $20 million revenue with officers all over India.
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