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The industry has huge growth capability to develop into a highly effective and efficient healthcare asset. The indigenous manufacturing needs to be incentivized to compensate for the shortfall of products Some potential areas of focus for health tech companies to further expand their ambit can include digital health tools and services, medical devices, telemedicine, and health data analytics. The government needs to focus on allocating more of its healthcare expenditure to the health-tech sector. 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