Healthcare system is developing rapidly and continues to expand its coverage, services and expenditure in the public as well as the private sectors. Healthcare in India is expected to spend US 1.08 billion dollars on IT products and services in 2014, as four percent increase over 2013, according to Gartner. It is expected to reach US 276 million dollars in 2014, up from 266 million dollars in 2013 – with the consulting segment growing by 8 per cent. Despite massive growth in Indian healthcare industry, an alarming 98,000 patients die every year due to medical errors in the country, a top official in the National Accreditation Board for Hospitals and Healthcare Providers said. Prevalence of medical errors was still a matter of concern as it occurred in 2.9 to 3.7 per cent of hospital admissions, of which 8.8 to 13.6 per cent resulted in death, Dr K K Karla, Chief Executive Officer, NABH, said. According to a study, atleast one in every 20 adults who seeks medical care in a U.S. emergency room or community health clinic may walk away with the wrong diagnosis, according to a new analysis that estimates that 12 million Americans a year could be affected by such errors. Of those misdiagnosis mistakes, about 6 million could potentially cause harm, according to patient safety expert Dr. Hardeep Singh, who is the first to provide robust population-level data on the impact of the problem in outpatient settings. “What we say is, was there a missed opportunity? Was there some kind of a red flag?” said Singh, a researcher at the Veterans Affairs Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety, the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center and Baylor College of Medicine in US. In the new study, Singh and his colleagues used data from three previous studies that focused on unusual patterns of return visits after primary care visits,
