10 Best Women Entrepreneurs in Healthcare - 2019

Healthcare is one of the fastest emerging sectors in India and expected to reach $280 billion by 2020 as various startups are focusing on medical care, treatment plan, diagnosis and delivery of quality services. On the flip side, advancement in technology is transforming the face of healthcare and opening options for entrepreneurship worldwide. At the forefront of this transformation are women leaders who represent an overwhelming majority of the healthcare workforce and making important contributions to fields like consulting, patient experience and telemedicine. From starting, women are the primary healthcare decision makers of their home, oftenly known as ‘chief medical officer’ in their family. Today, women constitute over 70 percent of the healthcare workforce where they leverage traits such as compassion, transparency, and the capability to foster teamwork to head businesses into the next phase of contemporary healthcare delivery. According to the recent Oliver Wyman reports, women make-up 30 percent of C-suite executives and 13 percent of CEOs. Whether it’s teaching companies how to use advance technologies or enabling the next wave of game-changing apps, female entrepreneurs are currently transforming the healthcare sector around the globe. In this issue of CEO Insights, we bring to you '10 Best Women Entrepreneurs in Healthcare – 2019’. The list features some of the well-established and emerging women leaders in healthcare who bring unprecedented efficiency along with their signature hallmark to the table. CEO Insights' Editorial Board examined the index through frequent discussions with a renowned panel of industry's topmost CEOs, directors, VCs, and industry analysts, throughout the year.