{"id":109105,"date":"2020-06-24T23:42:27","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T06:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/as-coronavirus-rages-in-india-billionaires-and-startups-team-up"},"modified":"2020-06-24T23:42:27","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T06:42:27","slug":"as-coronavirus-rages-in-india-billionaires-and-startups-team-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/as-coronavirus-rages-in-india-billionaires-and-startups-team-up","title":{"rendered":"As coronavirus rages in India, billionaires and startups team up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/as-coronavirus-rages-in-india-billionaires-and-startups-team-up2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The loose alliance, whose backers include Infosys Ltd. co-founders Nandan Nilekani and Kris Gopalakrishnan as well as prominent startups from Practo to Policybazaar, will be formally unveiled as soon as this week in an attempt to salvage a decrepit system by digitizing everything from patient data and records to creating online platforms for hospital care and doctor consultations. Called Swasth \u2014 meaning health in Hindi \u2014 its 100-plus members have pledged to build new services and coordinate efforts to improve emergency responses.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Some of India\u2019s richest people form an alliance with tech entrepreneurs to fix the country\u2019s broken healthcare system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The loose alliance, whose backers include Infosys Ltd. co-founders Nandan Nilekani and Kris Gopalakrishnan as well as prominent startups from Practo to Policybazaar, will be formally unveiled as soon as this week in an attempt to salvage a decrepit system by digitizing everything from patient data and records to creating online platforms for hospital care [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}