Henry Ford Health Systems, Pearl Human Care to set up Super Speciality Hospital in Vellore

The technical licensing agreement with Pearl Human Care covers clinical specialty, equipment selection and procurement, patient flow, key case review mechanism, quality control and building design and others.

"We are looking at licensing our technologies to existing hospitals in India. We are also in talks with others in India for a licensing tie-ups," said Marck Coticchia, Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Henry Ford health System.

He said the focus will be on bringing high quality healthcare at affordable costs.

He told IANS that the company can even license its patient diet recipe to those interested.

"We have licensed our recipe to an Indian company which is offering the dishes in the food courts operated by it in India," he said.

On the markets to be served by Naruvi Hospitals, Sampath said around 15,000 patients living around 100 km from Vellore go to Chennai and Bengaluru for availing high quality treatment.

In the first phase, Naruvi Hospitals will have 250 beds and the capacity will be scaled up to 400 beds.

The hospital will have 300 medical staff and 1,000 support staff, Sampath said.