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AI and IoT in Healthcare: Need of Future

InnoHEALTH Magazine — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 08:54:11 +0000

Healthcare is transitioning from human touch of doctors, nurses and allied health professionals to devices and now information technology. In today’s world, healthcare is buzzing with new domain of Artificial Intelligence (AI) or should it be called assisted intelligence, machine learning, big data, block chain, Internet of Things (IoT), connected healthcare, mHealth, eHealth, cybersecurity and many more. These terminologies are being used by many without knowing its definition,use and limitation. It is creating a new community of providers. All this is good as long as we are not servient to technology and we control it for the benefit of providers and patients. Even medical personnel these days want to diagnose without touching the patients, without any concern for evidence-based medicine,human touch and compassion. Technology has made big in-roads in healthcare,but should it dispense health professionals as few think.

There is no doubt AI and IoT are big help in radiology and early diagnosis of cancer etc. but can never replace human intervention. India is also fast changing to adopt new technologies. As per a recent estimate, AI has potential of bringing $957 billion to the Indian economy by 2035. This may be the cause for luring young professionals to this new domain.

AI, as described by the domain experts – application of AI in healthcare, can be classified into Descriptive, Predictive, and Prescriptive. Our effort here is to learn and share newer knowledge by various initiatives taken by us through our annual conference, magazines, training programs, club meetings, webinars and the most recent delegation to Sweden under InnoBRIDGE 2019 to learn the best practices and explore synergies. On the request of our stakeholders, the next planned initiative is InnoBRIDGE USA 2020.

This issue is based on the theme of AI & IoT in Healthcare. The next one would be on Unmet Needs in Healthcare: Leading to Innovation. Do share your views and research for the benefit of all who believe in change through innovation. Let us think more on the basic issues of healthcare and how we can use technology to improve healthcare for common man at an optimum cost.

Ideate, Innovate and Incubate for the Bottom of Pyramid. Let us strive together to make India a developed economy from an emerging economy. The population of1.3 billion should be an asset and not a liability for the nation. A healthy India only can make wealthy India.

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Diagnostics of tomorrow: Towards a healthier future

InnoHEALTH Magazine — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 06:20:30 +0000

Diagnostics of Tomorrow: Towards a Healthier Future

Panelists at the InnoHEALTH 2017 discuss and share their experiences on the subject of Diagnostics of Tomorrow and opine about how diagnosis will play a pivotal role in ensuring a healthier future.

Keynote Address: Brigadier (Hony) Dr. Arvind Lal,
Moderator: Dr. Ravi Gaur
Panelists:
• Dr. Kamini Khillan
• Pieter Spee
• Pavan Asalapuram
• Siddharth Sangwan

The session was fittingly addressed by a very high profile group of panelists from the diagnostics industry, who shared their experiences and concerns about the state of laboratories despite the fact that innovations have been very emphatically used in this segment of health and medical facilities.

Taking a lead on this vital subject, Dr. Arvind Lal highlighted the need of accurate and reliable diagnostics to bring the best treatments. Sharing some startling facts and figures, he highlighted that with less than 7.5 doctors to a thousand patients, we are at the lowest end of the pyramid and have a severely underserved health care industry in the country.

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Access to good health is a right and should not depend on where you live and how much you earn. But sadly, that is the reality in our health care system today. With less than 7.5 doctors to a thousand patients, we have a severely underserved health care industry. Even though we have more than 70 per cent of the country’s population in rural areas, but less than a third of the medical resources including doctors, laboratories, hospitals and hospital beds.

Emphasizing his and the establishment’s 50 years contribution to providing good health, he highlighted that he may have to rediscover the business of diagnostics, yet again.

Laboratory tests are responsible for 70% of clinical or medical decisions. This makes diagnostics the spine of the entire medical and healthcare system anywhere in the world.

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Session moderator Dr. Ravi Gaur of Oncquest Laboratories opened the floor with his opinion on the subject. “Healthcare industry has probably seen the maximum innovations in India. Diagnostics has been moving from incremental to being disruptive with innovations; and that’s what the need of the hour is today. We need to cut short the timings; we need to cut short the process of diagnosis and arrive at a conclusion at the earliest so as to be usefully effective to the clinical process.”

Dr. Pieter Spee from Estonia, the Partner Country, gave international perspective to the process of diagnostics. He highlighted that innovations are even more important in diagnostics as it’s the early detection that enhances the medical treatment.

Estonia is emphatically developing new products, facilities, techniques and tests that support the process of diagnosis. Beyond that, access to lab results and sharing data in real time is the key to improved medical facilities and clinical treatment.

Diagnostics is complemented with very high intervention by innovations and inventions, and IT companies like IBM are also pitching in with their state of the art products like the Watson and Block Chain.

Taking the diagnosis beyond a laboratory process, Siddharth Sangwan of Hindustan Wellness highlighted the newly defined telemedicine process with new innovations and a new approach.

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Explaining the process, he said that “We have been hearing of telemedicine from the Nehru and Indira Era. But what is accomplished so far is very less. We have now integrated the telemedicine system where the doctor explains the report to the patient and in the process takes the customer/patient in a walk through his report and diagnosis. Next step of telemedicine will be to integrate Artificial Intelligence so that patients can contribute to the clinical process and recover faster, with the additional help of doctors and medicines.

Other panelists also unanimously highlighted that diagnostics takes the lead in extending quality medical facilities and clinical treatment, and new innovations, should be encouraged in the industry in tandem with hospitals and doctors to be productively more useful and affective.

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Healthcare industry has probably seen the maximum innovations in India. Diagnostics has been moving from incremental to being disruptive with innovations; and that’s what the need of the hour is today. We need to cut short the timings; we need to cut short the process of diagnosis and arrive at a conclusion at the earliest so as to be usefully effective to the clinical process.”

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Innovations in India need to be brought to the grass root level. Handling blood, collection, storing and transfusions, requires innovative approach to handle the scarcity and the unfortunate reality of overstocking that goes wasted in our country. Need of the hour is to establish network between all the players in the supply chain that can eliminate crucial challenges faced by patients, clinics and blood banks as well.”

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Innovations is even more important in the diagnostics as it’s the early detection that enhance the medical treatment. Estonia is emphatically developing new products, facilities, techniques and tests that support the process of diagnosis. Beyond that, access to lab results and sharing data in real time is the key to improved medical facilities and clinical treatment.”

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Adopting new technology to cross physical barriers

InnoHEALTH Magazine — Wed, 14 Feb 2018 06:05:14 +0000

High profile panel of speakers from different fields of health and medical facilities explored the option of inducing innovations and new technology in the operations of hospitals and clinics, at the InnoHEALTH 2017 conference in New Delhi.

Keynote Address: Dr. Vijay Agarwal,
Moderator: Dr. Arati Verma
Speakers
· Prof. A.K Gupta,
· Partha Dey,
· Surjeet Thakur,
· Prof. Arti Maria

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Hospitals are the core of health and medical care and adaptation of new technology and innovations will make the biggest difference to our medical needs while improving the health conditions of all.

Highlighting the concern of data security and reluctance to depend on technology because of that concern, the keynote speaker for the first session Dr. Vijay Agarwal shared his views on the subject emphasizing on the fact that technology is rolling out at a very fast pace. Stating an example of landline telephones that took more than 100 years to reach the one billion mark of users, was reduced to less than 20 years for mobile technology to do the same. This way he highlighted the fact that newer technology will be very rapid in implementation requiring hospitals and clinics to adapt and be prepared to utilize it rather than be apprehensive about it.

Professor AK Gupta of the esteemed PGI Hospital in Chandigarh, also, supported this view and shared his personal experiences and experimentation with management and administration of the hospital. He emphasized that it’s not just in the medical and clinical field that we have to embrace innovations and technology, but in fact it will fetch very positively encouraging results if adopted in the management and administration of hospitals. He shared his views on reducing the time stay of patients in hospitals by means of using an innovative approach provided by tailored software and mobile apps. These efforts were recognized by the hospital; national level authorities and even internationally and was rightly awarded for this approach. He concluded his speech by asserting that you don’t have to discover new technology, but innovative utilization of existing technology can also provide very good results.

Touching the humane element in the hospitals, Prof Arti Maria of RML Hospital shared her experiences of involving mothers and non-hospital staff in caring for the young ones in ICU units. “A soft touch by the mothers, who are otherwise distanced outside the ICU units, has resulted on faster recovery of infants in the ICU.”

“In fact, this experimentation has also resulted in enhanced confidence of mothers and improved their social status with respect to their husbands, families and the social fabric as such.” Prof Maria, who specializes in Neonatology as Head of that Department is keenly working with other authorities beyond the hospital to promote this concept and is getting very encouraging results from hospitals, and relevant bodies.

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Partha Dey, with years of experience at IBM shed some light on the subject of innovations with the simplicity that the IBM is known for. The three products and services of IBM, Watson, Block Chain and Cloud data are the way forward, according to Mr. Dey, Healthcare Leader and SME and IBM, India.

Watson, according to Mr Dey, is the most innovative friend for health care workers and doctors alike, as it understands many languages, including regional and Oncology. This helps medical staff to interpret and diagnose ailments with a high grade of accuracy and ease. Watson can, not only, analyze and conclude at a faster pace, but can also eliminate human error contributed in the form of emotional stress and personal bias.

Block Chain, on the other hand is the best mode of data utilization and can contribute to tracking of product and their status. Block Chain can also help eliminate counterfeit medicines by clever tracking of products and their batches.

IBM is constantly pushing the boundaries of innovations with introduction of new products and services. Watson and Block Chain are latest in the field of health and medical welfare.

In totality, the high profile panel of speakers from different fields of health and medical facilities explored the option of inducing innovations and new technology in the operations of hospitals and clinics beyond clinical procedures, leading to heightened efficiency and operational advantages resulting in a healthier society and population at large.

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“Artificial intelligence has been there since ages. But big corporates throw things at you to claim that they have something new and latest. Most artificial intelligence uses software and the software is as good as the users, which means even the artificial intelligence needs human intervention for efficient execution. In the field of health and medical, AI is even more depending on the involvement and interpretation of human beings.”

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“Innovation doesn’t have to be in technology alone. Anything that has not been measured doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. So if stress on a child straight out of the womb and placed in an ICU has not been measured for any reason; it does not mean that the child is not undergoing any stress. Our new approach to introduce mother and family members in the ICU area has shown very encouraging results that resulted in speedy recovery by the child.”

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“We have been hearing of tele-medicine has been from the Nehru and Indira Era. But what is accomplished so far is very less. We have now integrated the tele-medicine system where the doctor explains the report to the patient and in the process takes the customer/patient in a walk through his report and diagnosis. Next step of tele-medicine will be to integrate Artificial Intelligence so that patients can contribute to the clinical process and recover faster, with the additional help of doctors and medicines.”

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