Oncology focused startup Karkinos Healthcare Pvt. Ltd. and premier educational institution Nirmala College of Arts and Science, Mulanthuruthy, Kerala, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) agreeing to take cancer prevention and care closer to the citizens.
While the Covid-19 pandemic continues to stress hospital systems, Karkinos Healthcare’s proprietary distributed cancer care network envisages the use of digital technology and resource distribution to provide highest quality care closest to the patient’s home.
Four chemotherapy centres have been set up at Lifepoint Hospital Wakad, Meadowlark Hospital Fatimanagar, Kasturba Hospital Vishrantwadi and Sushrut Hospital Kothrud.
The partnership with Westminster Hospital further strengthens our intent to address the cancer burden in citizens across Chennai and Tamil Nadu, especially for those who might otherwise be unable to receive these life-saving facilities.
Karkinos Healthcare’s KareMitras are responsible to ensure that the barriers between the health system and the patient are eliminated or reduced to improve access to care.
How does digital technology play a crucial role in oncology services? Listen in to this podcast as R. Venkataramanan, Founder, Karkinos Healthcare and Girish Raghavan, VP, GE Healthcare, talk about the role of digital technologies and AI in Cancer Care.
In this exclusively compiled article for ETHealthWorld, Dr. Moni Abraham K., Co-Founder, Medical Director, Karkinos Kerala, and R Venkataramanan, Founder and CEO, Karkinos Healthcare, elaborate on how technology offers several advantages to address disparities in cancer care.
The joint initiative will provide access to potentially life-saving Cancer Screening facilities to those belonging to economically backward categories, as they are the ones who need such facilities the most, due to a lack of awareness and funds for such tests.
Decentralization has the potential to address some of the greatest challenges in cancer care that can directly result in better outcomes for citizens and patients, while simultaneously reducing the financial burden.
Cervical cancer is an eminently preventable disease and amenable for elimination, provided women are vaccinated against HPV infection and screened regularly.
A war room like Command Center is set up by Karkinos Healthcare as a central disseminator of information and guidance to help every patient navigate across the care pathway seamlessly.
With Endiya Partners’ funding, Karkinos Healthcare is poised to bring about the much-needed disruption in the cancer-care ecosystem with its comprehensive tech-led solutions and distributed network.
The purpose of palliative care is to relieve the patient from suffering and improve the Quality of Life for both patients and families throughout the illness experience, not just at the end of life.
Reliance Digital Health Ltd, the wholly owned subsidiary of Reliance Industries Limited, has acquired a minority stake in Karkinos Healthcare.
Noticed a lump in your breast? Don’t worry! It may not be cancerous. It is important to understand that most breast lumps are not cancerous. A lump may be malignant (cancerous) or precancerous, but there are several types of breast lumps that are benign (noncancerous).…
Healthcare services, today, are highly patient-centered, based on a digital and a data led model. These digital models support and map personalized treatment. Karkinos Healthcare, from the word go, is implementing data powered solutions that can build personalized cancer care.
Karkinos Healthcare, being a technology-driven comprehensive cancer care company, will bring about a generational shift in the minds of Indian citizens towards cancer as a disease. The importance of early detection will be seeded in the minds of a common man and the value of screening and prevention will be prioritized.
Karkinos Healthcare in collaboration with the Govt. of Manipur will set up a state-of-the-art greenfield center in a period of eight months from now at the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences (JNIMS).
Karkinos has chosen openEHR standard for building an oncology-focused technology platform.
As part of this tie-up called ‘Light it Pink’ and to mark October as the Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Ripon Building, the iconic structure of Chennai Corporation, was lit up in pink on 31st October 2021.
The Hindu Business Line I Kochi I Updated on October 28, 2021: A slew of marquee backers including the Tata group are supporting Karkinos Healthcare’s push to provide affordable cancer care. The comprehensive oncology platform set up with an investment of ₹110 crore has started off from Kerala.
Friends, this is breast cancer awareness month and this is part 1 of the 3-part series of articles I decided to write for the benefit of team Karkinos, nonmedical colleagues, and friends. Education, they say, starts at home as we expand our horizons to go to the world. Part 2 deals with the changing spectrum in breast cancer and Part 3 – the challenges in breast cancer and overcoming them.
New treatment interventions and progress in understanding the biology of cancer truly changed the overall prognosis and survival indices in breast cancer.
We as a community need to work together and not just brace it but contribute to the dawn of new innovative and creative thoughts to cancel and checkmate cancer and overcome the challenges for a better tomorrow.
Getting a second opinion helps to recognize available choices and make an educated decision on what is right for the patient. Given this veracity, variety and ever evolving treatment options, patients have the right to ask for a second opinion from experts.
This strategic collaboration will enable continued innovation in cancer care with the goal of transforming cancer care in India and abroad.
Together, Karkinos Healthcare and GenWorks will provide primary screening through HPV DNA tests, and confirmatory diagnoses through colposcopy at the clinics and hospitals of the partner gynecologists.
Karkinos Healthcare has laid down its primary goal to shift the focus of cancer care towards the left side of the spectrum, i.e., early detection and infuse a behavioral shift among citizens in their attitude from illness to wellness.
Karkinos Healthcare closed a funding round with the Tatas Group drawing an investment of Rs 110 crores. Tata Group has disbursed Rs. 35 crores immediately and the rest of the funding is expected to be disbursed in tranches in the coming months.
By Dr. Moni Abraham Kuriakose – Medical Director, Karkinos Healthcare & CEO, Karkinos Healthcare, Kerala
The core objective of Karkinos Healthcare is to create an up-to-date dynamic knowledge base and curate that knowledge to distribute, democratize, and integrate…
By Dr. R. Sankaranarayanan – Director, Preventive Oncology, Karkinos Healthcare
Cancer ― the Emperor of all Maladies ― is one of the greatest health challenges to mankind and is one of the leading causes of death across the globe. I have personally seen the disease to devastate families and to drag people to extreme poverty.
Karkinos Healthcare (KH) desires to build an end-to-end technology driven oncology focused managed healthcare platform where almost no person is deprived of care either by lack of access or affordability.
