HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT
Approach to Healthcare and to the Delivery of Services Present and future trends Cutting across clinical disciplines, non-communicable diseases have come to occupy centre stage in our day to day practice of medicine. This phenomenon has considerably changed our outlook towards patients and their families, although an epidemiological disaster the pandemic of COVID-19 has made us more sensitive to co-morbidities and has changed the way we deliver services. This article has cited these trends and has elaborated upon them and their possible causation. This review puts these trends in perspective in order that our peers might prepare themselves for the road ahead. Mira Govindarajan, Cardiodiabetologist, Safeguard Family
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A SI A N H O S P I T A L & H EA LT HCA R E M A N AGE M E N T
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his is a vast topic which normally cannotbe encompassed. Save for our day-to-day practice which finds its resonance in the current medical literature and in media reports. By this token, some trends now observed are: 1. A focus on wellness 2. Acceptability and mainstreaming of online practice 3. A cultural shift in the doctor patient interaction 4. A focus on cellular structure and genomics apart from merely tissues or body organs
