The presentation briefly outlines some of the research areas in rural primary healthcare that we focus on.

1. New Directions in Healthcare Nachiket Mor, Ph.D. Member, Board of Directors, ICTPH OECD Conference New Delhi, June 14th, 2011

3. Set up by IKP Trust

4. Headquartered at IKP Knowledge Park, Hyderabad (200 acre R&D, Incubation Facility within the Genome Valley)

5. President: Dr. Zeena Johar

7. Low quality of care

8. Insufficient human resources

9. High out-of-pocket expenditure at point-of-care

10. Healthcare system not patient or wellness focussed

12. Interventions

13. Human Resources

15. Technology to allow for:

16. Accurate diagnosis

17. Appropriate treatment

18. Quality control

20. GPS Enabled Android Mobile Phones

21. Rapid enrollment and risk screening

22. Geo-tagging

25. Vision, Dental, Cancer

26. Internet, Computers, HMIS

28. Biochemistry: Glucose, Lipid Profile, LFT, KFT (Chem 7)

30. Interventions

31. Human Resources

33. Standardised treatment

34. Rational prescriptions

36. Suture

37. Suture Removal

38. Dressing (Minor/major)

39. Injections

41. Objective

42. Assessment

43. PlanningDental Screening

45. Pictures to allow visual confirmation

47. Risk Factor Assessment Population PISP

49. Zinc (5 mg)

50. Folic Acid (160 µg)

51. Vitamin A (300 µg)

52. Vitamin C (30 mg)Unless you child has one of the following: Acute infection Severe Anaemia Severe Acute Malnutrition

54. Interventions

55. Human Resources

57. Inadequate supply of MBBS doctors

58. High salary & support costs

60. Offer bridging certificate course in modern medicine

62. Respiratory

63. Cardio-vascular diseases

64. Cancer

65. Diabetes

66. Dermatology

67. Musculo-skeletal

68. Ophthalmology

69. Dentistry

71. Health Extension Worker

72. Real-time HMIS data entry

74. Interventions

75. Human Resources

77. Entirely a fee-for-service model

78. Standalone insurance schemes such as RSBY are well run and therefore run the risk of:

79. Relative over-supply of higher levels of care

80. Not focussed on wellness

82. Strong focus on risk factor management and gate-keeping function at the primary care level

83. Move away from FFS and OOP to capitation and pre-payment models