FIGMD CEO presents 'Healthcare in India' at ACC Professional and Corporate Consortium meeting

Sanket Baralay President and CEO of FIGMD presented "Healthcare in India" at the ACC Professional and Corporate Consortium meeting October 25^th at the ACC Heart House in Washington D.C.

Mr. Baralay's presentation detailed the socioeconomic issues challenging current health care in India today, and the dramatic impact and opportunity afforded to programs such as the PINNACLE Registry not only in India but in other developing nations as well.

"The startling fact that India has over one million engineers but less than four hundred thousand healthcare providers is a glaring example of the need to bring patient quality and improvement technology to this country," said Sanket Baralay during his presentation. "With the PINNACLE India Registry we will have the unprecedented opportunity to use data to change perception, policy and lives."

PINNACLE India was officially announced by Dr. Jack Lewin, CEO of the American College of Cardiology, at the International Heart Protection Summit in New Delhi, India on September 28, 2011.

"It is widely argued in the development community that evidence-based medicine is even more important when you're poor than when you're rich," said Brendan Mullen Director of the PINNACLE Registry at the ACC. "The logic is simple at both the national and individual levels—when resources are highly constrained, it is essential that you get the biggest bang for your often limited buck (or rupee or yuan or real). Unfortunately, the tools necessary to assess this adherence to evidence in any systematic or scaled way in the developing world are generally considered a cost-prohibitive luxury."

Source: FIGMD, Inc.