Dr.Vahideh Gavgani - Information Therapy for Patients with Coronary Artery Disease

When people talk about the problems facing Indian healthcare, the primary focus is on the shortage of doctors, and how we need to invest more money in training new ones. While opening medical colleges is rather profitable for politicians (which is why they do this all the time), this does not address the underlying issue. More doctors just create more demand for medical services, and much of this medical care is unproven, unnecessary and expensive! Too many doctors often leads to overtesting and overtreatment -- and not always to better medical care !

Our initiative, Health Education Library for People (HELP), has adopted an innovative approach. Conceived over ten years ago, it's India's first patient education library. Our website, www.healthlibrary.com, focuses on empowering patients with information. As time progressed though, we realized that this was not sufficient. The entire ecosystem needs an overhaul to fix the underlying issues that plague healthcare in India.

The video is the talk given by Dr.Vahideh Gavgani, Department of Medical Library & Information Science (DMLIS), Tabriz University of Medical Sciences on Prescription of Information for Patient with Coronary Artery
Disease

Category:

Education