Owing to the COVID 19 pandemic, healthcare institutes are readily adopting artificial intelligence-based solutions for an effective outcome. It may seem that COVID 19 has initiated this adoption, but over the past few years, healthcare institutes have taken cognizance of this nascent technology. Due to its ability to analyse and process large datasets, healthcare institutes are deploying AI-models to make data-driven decisions. Big techs like IBM and Google are leveraging their respective products towards proactive data-driven healthcare advancements. For example, IBM Watson Health is a comprehensive product created to solve major health challenges using data, analytics and AI.

Behavior Analytics Market size is set to exceed USD 3.5 billion by 2024; according to a new research report by Global Market Insights, Inc. Technology advancement has bolstered the demand for behavior analytics market solutions among organizations to detect threats even before they occur and to mitigate their impact. Integration of advanced analytics and machine learning algorithms for analyzing user behavior allows automatic analysis enables organizations to link user and entity activity to support security analyst in threat detection and remediation. Besides these, advanced behavior analytics market systems also offer certain benefits over conventional security enterprise systems, such as end to end protection, automated response and access control. The healthcare sector has emerged as one of the major end-users of the behavior analytics market and is anticipated to register substantial growth during the forecast timeline. The growing demand for these solutions among healthcare organizations is attributed to the growing threat of insider attacks and data breaches among healthcare institutes, which poses a financial risk. Besides, healthcare institutes are more exposed to the risk of insider attacks owing to the general lack of cybersecurity infrastructure.

Cancer is fast turning into an epidemic in India.According to a study by The National Cancer Institute (NCI), every 13th new cancer patient in the world is an Indian. In 2016, the total number of new cancer cases is anticipated to be around 14.5 lakh and that figure is likely to reach nearly 17.3 lakh in 2020, as per a study by The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). Such numbers exacerbate the magnitude of healthcare issues in the country. The first step towards addressing this mammoth task is access to healthcare. The country also needs to integrate technology into the healthcare system.