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India.com
6 days ago
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- India.com
Mukesh Ambani to transform healthcare sector, Reliance-backed firm signs pact with…, to launch national…
Telecom Egypt has partnered with KareXpert, a Reliance Jio-backed healthtech firm, to launch a digital healthcare platform in Egypt. Hosted on a secure national cloud, the platform integrates Hospital Information Management Systems (HIMS), electronic medical records, and revenue cycle management. It is designed to enhance hospital efficiency, simplify billing processes, and safeguard patient data, the initiative supports Egypt's digital transformation goals and also to make healthcare more accessible for its citizens. Reliance Backed Firm Partnership With Telecom Egypt Telecom Egypt has signed a pact with healthcare technology company KareXpert to launch a digital healthcare platform managed through a secure national cloud hosted within Egypt. KareXpert is backed by Reliance Jio as one of its investors. Announcing the MoU between Telecom Egypt and KareXpert, a release on Wednesday said the platform combines a Hospital Information Management System (HIMS) with unified electronic medical records and provides comprehensive revenue cycle management solutions. This provides hospitals with a unified view of their clinical and administrative data, improving operational efficiency. What Mukesh Ambani Backed KareXpert Does? KareXpert's solutions integrate with existing systems within medical facilities and offer a unified digital payment path, simplifying billing procedures and accelerating revenue collection, while fully maintaining data privacy and complying with regulatory standards, the release said. The secure local hosting ensures sovereignty over health information, while the cloud infrastructure allows future scalability to incorporate AI and Internet of Things (IoT) applications. 'This collaboration aligns with Telecom Egypt's strategy to utilise technology and build high-value strategic partnerships to deliver top-tier digital solutions,' the release said. The company is expanding its portfolio beyond high-speed connectivity and 5G networks to include secure national cloud services, AI, and IoT solutions that integrate with smart financial technologies to meet the needs of both businesses and individuals. Nidhi Jain, Founder and CEO of KareXpert, said: 'Telecom Egypt will give us faster market access and quicker rollout. The platform will enable easy access to healthcare services to the citizens of Egypt with exceptional reliability.' The MoU was recently signed during the 'Africa Health ExCon 2025' conference and exhibition held in Cairo. Mohamed Nasr, Managing Director and CEO of Telecom Egypt, said: 'We are transferring our technical expertise to the healthcare sector by offering hospitals a reliable, easy-to-deploy platform that protects patient data privacy and doubles operational efficiency, contributing to Egypt's 2030 vision for sustainable digital transformation.' Among its users are public and private healthcare providers such as Apollo, CK Birla, Reliance, Artemis, HCL, CIPLA, the Ministry of Defence, BHEL, DVC, and Tata Group of Hospitals. (With Inputs From PTI)
Time of India
7 days ago
- Business
- Time of India
Reliance-backed KareXpert to power Egypt's national healthcare digital transformation
Telecom Egypt has signed a pact with healthcare technology company KareXpert to launch a digital healthcare platform managed through a secure national cloud hosted within Egypt. KareXpert is backed by Reliance Jio as one of its investors. Announcing the MoU between Telecom Egypt and KareXpert, a release on Wednesday said the platform combines a Hospital Information Management System (HIMS) with unified electronic medical records and provides comprehensive revenue cycle management solutions. This provides hospitals with a unified view of their clinical and administrative data, improving operational efficiency. KareXpert's solutions integrate with existing systems within medical facilities and offer a unified digital payment path, simplifying billing procedures and accelerating revenue collection, while fully maintaining data privacy and complying with regulatory standards, the release said. The secure local hosting ensures sovereignty over health information, while the cloud infrastructure allows future scalability to incorporate AI and Internet of Things (IoT) applications. "This collaboration aligns with Telecom Egypt's strategy to utilise technology and build high-value strategic partnerships to deliver top-tier digital solutions," the release said. The company is expanding its portfolio beyond high-speed connectivity and 5G networks to include secure national cloud services, AI, and IoT solutions that integrate with smart financial technologies to meet the needs of both businesses and individuals. Nidhi Jain, Founder and CEO of KareXpert, said: "Telecom Egypt will give us faster market access and quicker rollout. The platform will enable easy access to healthcare services to the citizens of Egypt with exceptional reliability." The MoU was recently signed during the 'Africa Health ExCon 2025' conference and exhibition held in Cairo. Mohamed Nasr, Managing Director and CEO of Telecom Egypt, said: "We are transferring our technical expertise to the healthcare sector by offering hospitals a reliable, easy-to-deploy platform that protects patient data privacy and doubles operational efficiency, contributing to Egypt's 2030 vision for sustainable digital transformation." KareXpert is operational in 500-plus hospitals and medical centres, serving over 15 million patients across six countries. Among its users are public and private healthcare providers such as Apollo, CK Birla, Reliance, Artemis, HCL, CIPLA, the Ministry of Defence, BHEL, DVC, and Tata Group of Hospitals.
India Gazette
09-07-2025
- Business
- India Gazette
Telecom Egypt partners with Reliance Jio-backed KareXpert to launch national digital healthcare platform
ANI 09 Jul 2025, 14:04 GMT+10 Gurugram (Haryana) [India], July 9 (ANI): Telecom Egypt on Wednesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Reliance Jio-backed KareXpert, a leading healthcare technology company, to launch a comprehensive digital healthcare platform managed through a secure national cloud hosted within Egypt.'We started by building a fibre-optic network that spans the entire country, then strengthened it with 5G services to ensure highly reliable connectivity,' said Mohamed Nasr, Managing Director and CEO of Telecom to the press release, the platform combines a Hospital Information Management System (HIMS) with unified electronic medical records and provides comprehensive revenue cycle management solutions, which will assist hospitals in a unified view of their clinical and administrative data, enhancing operational efficiency in line with the best global practices.'Our collaboration with KareXpert is a result of this approach. We are transferring our technical expertise to the healthcare sector by offering hospitals a reliable, easy-to-deploy platform that protects patient data privacy and doubles operational efficiency, contributing to Egypt's 2030 vision for sustainable digital transformation,' he solutions are distinguished by their seamless integration with existing systems within medical facilities and a unified digital payment path that simplifies billing procedures and accelerates revenue collection, all while fully maintaining data privacy and complying with regulatory partnership between Telecom Egypt and KareXpert aligns with Telecom Egypt's strategy to utilise technology and build high-value strategic partnerships to deliver top-tier digital solutions.'Our experience in India and other countries gives us confidence and courage to serve Telecom Egypt as a nationwide Health Cloud partner. Telecom Egypt will give us faster market access and quicker rollout,' said Nidhi Jain, Founder and CEO of Telecom company is expanding its portfolio beyond high-speed connectivity and 5G networks to include secure national cloud services, AI, and IoT solutions that integrate with smart financial technologies to meet the needs of both businesses and individuals, supporting Egypt's Vision 2030 for digital transformation. (ANI)
Forbes
09-07-2025
- Business
- Forbes
Why Securing SaaS Apps Needs An AI Makeover
Nidhi Jain is the CEO & Founder of with 20+ years of experience. Modern enterprises now depend on hundreds—sometimes thousands—of SaaS tools. With each new hire, role change or departure, traditional static roles and permission models quickly become outdated and unmanageable. To make things even more complex, AI tools are entering the workplace at an accelerating pace, and access requirements are changing daily. IT teams need an always-on AI engine—one that continuously monitors activity, dynamically adjusts roles and permissions, and ensures the right people have access to the right tools, exactly when they need them. What's Going Wrong In Access Management Today When IT owned and controlled the entire tech stack, access management was straightforward: • Assign a few systems at onboarding. • Remove them at offboarding. • Maintain a centralized, static access matrix. But the rise of SaaS—and citizen IT, where departments buy their own tools—has changed everything. In today's reality, every SaaS application and AI tool comes with 20 to 30 granular permission settings. Departments often purchase and manage their own apps without informing IT. AI tools can spin up new instances automatically, outside traditional IT controls, while cross-functional roles demand access to multiple systems beyond what static job titles suggest. Take the example of onboarding a new sales development representative (SDR). It's no longer just about giving access to Salesforce. Over time, the SDR team has added tools like: • Messaging platforms • Intent data providers • Data enrichment services • Personalized video tools These tools are often managed at the departmental level, outside IT's purview. So now, when a new SDR joins, there's no standard "access template." Instead, IT has to figure out: • Which apps the SDR team most frequently use or log every day. • What permissions are needed inside each tool. • What old accounts still linger unused. • How to avoid giving too much or too little access. It's almost like you need to scan your environment daily just to keep up with what your teams are using to stay productive and continuously update both your list of applications and each user's access permissions. The shift to decentralized access has introduced new vulnerabilities. To start, department-owned apps and DIY access management fly under IT's radar. Tools are adopted and access is granted without oversight, creating hidden risks and unchecked sprawl. Risky behavior can also go undetected. If a departing SDR downloads mass customer data, it may go unnoticed until a quarterly audit, too late to prevent damage. Finally, approval fatigue sets in as managers overwhelmed by endless access requests tend to rubber-stamp approvals without careful review. IBM's 2024 Cost of a Data Breach Report found the average breach now costs $4.88 million, a risk most lean IT teams can no longer afford. AI: The Transformative Force In IGA More enterprises are turning to AI to address today's access management challenges. Rather than relying on manual reviews, static policies and human memory, AI can bring continuous, intelligent oversight that scales with the complexity of the modern enterprise. Here's how AI is reshaping access governance: Instead of periodic reviews, AI continuously monitors user access and behavior against established baselines. If an SDR suddenly gains access to tools they've never used or performs actions like large data downloads after hours, AI can detect these anomalous access permissions in real time and flag them for investigation. By learning usage patterns across roles and departments, AI helps identify risks early, minimize blind spots and ensure that access remains aligned with business intent. Since AI evaluates access requests across multiple dimensions—user role, historical behavior, peer access patterns and data sensitivity—AI can predict a likely "yes" for a manager who has previously been approved to access similar tools for similar roles, streamlining approvals. But when an access request deviates from the norm, such as unusually high privileges or tools outside the team's typical stack, it flags it for review and asks for explicit approval, reducing the risk of improper provisioning while accelerating access for legitimate needs. AI mitigates approval fatigue by proactively detecting compliance risks before they escalate. It identifies policy violations, dormant accounts and anomalous access accumulation in real time, reducing the burden on managers to catch every issue manually. Instead of reacting during audit season, organizations can rely on AI to surface potential risks early, enforce smarter access decisions and maintain continuous compliance. This marks a shift from reactive governance to intelligent, proactive access oversight—a level of scalability and precision previously out of reach. Humans And AI: A Smarter Team AI isn't here to replace people. It's here to support them with context, speed and intelligence. Imagine an access request system where: • AI recommends the best action based on real-world context. • The system explains why it made that recommendation. • Humans stay involved in high-risk decisions or sensitive approvals. This augmented model can help save time, reduce risk and keep humans firmly in control where it matters most. The key is thoughtful change management: • Start with low-risk tasks. Automate high-volume, routine access requests, such as standard business apps with basic license levels, to reduce manual workload and speed up provisioning. • Be transparent. Always show users why the AI made its recommendation. • Learn from human feedback. Fine-tune models based on overrides and corrections. • Reserve sensitive decisions for people. Keep critical high-privilege approvals under human control. Managing access safely in a decentralized, SaaS-first world requires more than scaling old models. It demands intelligence and the ability to govern dynamically, continuously and contextually. By 2028, AI-augmented identity governance will likely be table stakes for large enterprises. Organizations that begin laying the groundwork now will be better positioned to navigate this shift thoughtfully. Early adoption allows time to refine policies, adapt processes and align teams—ultimately enabling faster onboarding, more intelligent access decisions and stronger compliance, all without significantly increasing operational overhead. As AI becomes more deeply embedded in enterprise infrastructure, the question is no longer whether to automate access management—but how to do it responsibly. Forbes Technology Council is an invitation-only community for world-class CIOs, CTOs and technology executives. Do I qualify?
Forbes
02-07-2025
- Business
- Forbes
How To Tackle Tech Debt Without Slowing Innovation
Technical debt is a hidden weight that can quietly undermine the long-term stability of both products and platforms. Yet addressing it often feels at odds with the pressure to keep building and releasing. Experienced tech leaders know it's possible to both strengthen foundations and deliver new capabilities—it just takes careful resource management. Below, members of Forbes Technology Council share practical strategies they've used or observed to reduce technical debt without slowing development. From disciplined processes to small, consistent improvements, these approaches show how thoughtful planning can support innovation and sustainability across systems. 1. Plan For Debt As You Would For Features One strategy that works: Plan for tech debt as you plan for features. We assign small, intentional cleanup tasks alongside major work so it's not an afterthought. This way, quality improves steadily and the team never has to pause progress just to 'fix things later.' It keeps velocity up and the codebase up to the mark. - Nidhi Jain, 2. Make Small Improvements During Feature Work Implement a 'boy scout rule' under which developers are encouraged to make small improvements to existing code during feature work. This maintains development momentum while gradually improving code quality, and developers are more motivated to clean up code they're already actively working with. - Kevin Cushnie, MC Systems Forbes Technology Council is an invitation-only community for world-class CIOs, CTOs and technology executives. Do I qualify? 3. Analyze User Engagement To Pinpoint Friction Proactively analyze user engagement metrics to pinpoint friction points where users spend excessive time. Prioritize these areas for targeted debt reduction, aligning technical improvements closely with meaningful user experience enhancements. This strategic approach ensures teams efficiently address critical technical debt, boosting productivity and product value without slowing down development. - Antara Dave, Microsoft Corporation 4. Bring In Someone From A Different Team If your team wants to maintain velocity, consider adding someone from another team to the mix. They can bring fresh eyes and, potentially, newer architectures or development practices to your group. A senior engineer can usually spot opportunities for improvement pretty quickly, and even the act of explaining the code to a new team member can make areas for improvement obvious. - Luke Wallace, Bottle Rocket 5. Hand Over Tasks When Someone Takes Vacation Pre-vacation handovers are an excellent opportunity to reduce tech debt. Planning and carrying out handovers before we take a holiday are crucial to maintaining smooth IT operations. Giving your employees the choice to hand tasks over to automation or a human colleague can help reduce tech debt and automate tasks. Critically, it utilizes time already allocated for addressing this work. - Kevin Korte, Univention 6. Implement A 'Fix Forward' Approach A 'fix forward' approach helps ensure the absence of critical technical debt in a product or platform. Additionally, holding regular hackathons outside the standard release schedule incentivizes extra participation among developers and offers learning opportunities for individuals not directly involved in specific modules or features, thereby promoting collaboration. - Satyabrat Chowdhury, CORESTACK Inc. 7. Make Sure The Product And Engineering Teams Are Aligned Resolving technical debt is development. The Shangri-la of 'no tech debt' does not survive contact with reality. It's a balance of doing what's right for the business. Making sure the product and engineering teams are on the same page is critical. You should have sprints where tech debt is the focus. - Patrick Emmons, DragonSpears, Inc. 8. Start Every Build With An Assessment The best approach is to embed assessments early. Before jumping into builds, take time to evaluate: What do we remove, migrate or rebuild? Most failures stem from skipping this upfront evaluation, not from the execution itself. That prework keeps the team from dragging legacy systems forward and saves you from cleaning up later. - Benjamin Niaulin, ShareGate by Workleap 9. Have A Plan To Avoid Tech Debt Altogether Tech debt needs to be avoided at all costs. Everything needs to be planned, mapped and strategized without having an option for accumulating tech debt. It's harder to get rid of a 'patch job' than it is to take the time to build a solid solution. - Sabrin Freedman-Alexander, Cloudvoid 10. Tackle Tech Debt As Part Of Each Sprint Dedicate 10% to 20% of each sprint to technical debt. This ensures debt reduction is ongoing without disrupting feature delivery, balances priorities in the backlog, and prevents long-term buildup. It fosters a culture of quality and ownership while maintaining development speed and ensuring healthier, more sustainable code over time. - Dileep Rai, Hachette Book Group 11. Thoroughly Vet New Tools Before Adding Them One strategy that works is to evaluate new tools, especially AI, with a disciplined lens before adding them. Too many teams chase AI without asking if it supports their mission or just adds complexity. To avoid tech debt, focus on three things: integration, consolidation and whether your team is ready to support it long-term. - Todd Fisher, CallTrackingMetrics 12. Get Executive Buy-In And Investment Tech debt cannot be a 'taboo subject' hidden from view—you'll never make progress. One strategy that is a must-do is to get the executive team's buy-in (go to the board if necessary) so that proper investment and resources can be allocated to tech debt reduction. The dev team needs to explain the risks associated with ignoring it—the execs will listen closely and support. - Bruce Kornfeld, StorMagic 13. Leverage 'Context-Driven Debt Fixing' Implement 'context-driven debt fixing'—when developers get stuck debugging legacy code during feature work, they must refactor that specific problem area before continuing. Why this is effective: Frustration becomes the trigger for improvement. Devs naturally want to fix what's blocking them, so the refactoring feels productive rather than like overhead. Compound improvements happen organically. - Stoyan Mitov, Dreamix 14. Adopt A 'Progressive Refactoring' Mindset One strategy I've seen successfully employed is adopting a 'progressive refactoring' mindset within Agile sprints that is driven by clear ownership and measurable impact. Developers become responsible not just for delivery, but also for code quality and future maintainability in their area. - Diganta Sengupta, Oracle Corp. 15. Focus On Strategic Goals And Flexibility When Selecting Solutions There are two important things, really—a focus on bigger, strategic goals when selecting tools and solutions and an emphasis on flexibility and customization. Most software tools only get teams and organizations 80% of the way to a solution, but it's that 20% that can be the difference between success and failure when choosing to add to your tech stack. Embrace flexible tools that are easy to build and scale. - Ed Jennings, Quickbase 16. Take Advantage Of The Overlap Between Releases And/Or 'Clean As You Go' I employ two strategies: Use the overlap between releases for focused debt reduction, ensuring smooth production while clearing debt before new work begins. Alternatively, dedicate 20% of each sprint (that is, one dedicated developer) to addressing technical debt concurrently with new feature development. This 'clean as you go' approach prevents tech debt accumulation and keeps the codebase healthy. - Uttam Kumar, American Eagle Outfitters 17. Bundle Debt Work With Related Feature Work One effective strategy I've used to reduce technical debt without slowing development is to bundle debt work with related feature work. If you're touching the code anyway, pay down nearby debt while you're in there. It's like fixing that leaky pipe while you renovate the kitchen—not six months later when it floods your basement. - Andrew Siemer, Inventive 18. Make Tech Debt Reduction Part Of Digital Transformation Technical debt reduction should be defined as a part of any transformation. There is a cost associated with sunsetting applications, but there is a benefit as well. - Bhushan Parikh, Get Digital Velocity, LLC 19. Embed Identity Governance Into The Software Development Lifecycle One effective strategy is embedding identity governance into the SDLC using digital twins to simulate access policies before deployment. This prevents access sprawl and identity debt (both forms of technical debt) without slowing delivery. It's a lightweight, proactive approach that keeps security aligned with speed. - Peter Hill, Gathid 20. Configure 'Debt Heatmaps' Use 'debt heatmaps' to identify pain points, then apply a sprint 'debt tax' to clean up the worst offenders during normal dev cycles. It's strategic and continuous and keeps the team shipping without backlog bloat. - Mark Mahle, NetActuate, Inc.
