India ranks 10th in Asia-Pacific Personalised Health Index

India ranks 10th in Asia-Pacific Personalised Health Index

Recently Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) has released the ‘Asia-Pacific Personalized Health Index’. India ranked 10th out of 11 Asia Pacific countries in a newly-launched health index to measure the progress towards personalised healthcare.

What is Asia-Pacific Personalised Health Index?

Asia-Pacific Personalised Health Index is a newly launched index. The index measures the progress of Asia Pacific countries in adopting personalised healthcare. It includes enabling the right care to be tailored for the right person at the right time.

Significance of the Asia-Pacific Personalised Health Index

It measures performance against 27 different indicators of personalised health across four categories called ‘Vital Signs’. These include:

• Health Information Indicator:It takes into account data, infrastructure, and technical expertise driving personalized healthcare.
• Health Services Indicators:It takes into account planning, organization, and delivery of services with respect to personalized healthcare.
• Personalized Technologies indicator:It takes into account the devices, applications, platforms, and reimbursement structures that will drive personalized healthcare based on the needs of stakeholders.
• Policy Context indicator: It takes into account the polities, frameworks, partnerships, people, and drivers that will facilitate personalized healthcare.

Key-Points of the Asia-Pacific Personalised Health Index

• The index ranks 11 countries of Asia Pacific namely Australia, China, Japan, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and New Zealand.
• Singapore has topped the index followed by Taiwan (2nd), Japan (3rd), and Australia (4th).
• Indonesia was ranked 11th in the Bottom of the index.
• Report highlights that Singapore was the best performer among all the 11 health systems.
• Taiwan bagged the second position while Japan, and Australia stands at the third and the fourth position of the index respectively.