The opportunities for private investment in healthcare facilities and services are ever increasing. Because the Government has opened the insurance sector to private companies, the availability of private health insurance is expected to increase access to private healthcare facilities for millions of families. Max Healthcare and Apollo Hospitals are examples of providers already offering services in each of the primary, secondary and tertiary sectors.

Health insurance is grossly unde…

Indian economy is now growing impressively. One of the areas of Indian economy that will have very fast growth is Insurance. Right now, the size of Indian insurance sector is just $10 billion and by 2010, it may become a $60 billion industry. Until now, Indian insurance sector did not see too much use of technology. However, it is going to change. Now, 3i Infotech has launched Premia Insurance Broking eXchange (IBX)which is ‘a first of its kind subscription-based internet so…