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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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How to write a funding proposal?

InnoHEALTH Magazine — Tue, 01 May 2018 10:48:48 +0000

Do you have any innovative idea?
Pots of Money available for innovative projects, but Caution! No can lay hands on them without knack for saleable idea

Dr. Mukherjee holds Ph.D. in Microbiology, Degree in Law, Advance Course in Strategy Management from IIM Kolkata, Management and Leadership course from Business School University of Oxford. He has devised and formulated strategies for mitigating challenges and bridging gaps through impact funding. Before joining Wellcome Trust as Senior Strategic Advisor (India), Dr.Mukherjee was staff scientist at International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB). Dr. Mukherjee manages the R&D for Affordable Healthcare in India, a £30 million initiative of Wellcome Trust in India. The initiative funds translation research leading to affordable healthcare solution in India and beyond.

Parthvee Jain is an engineering graduate with her post-graduation and specialization in Food Processing and Nutraceuticals. Her interest fields include Biotechnology, Healthcare, Food Processing and Nutraceuticals. Connecting European Healthcare innovation leaders with the Indian healthcare system and pioneers, she is working with InnovatioCuris as analytical and result-driven marketing professional having experience impacting organizational performance through expert research, analysis and evaluating market and competitive conditions, current and emerging trends, and industry-specific solutions to ensure optimal position in the marketplace.

It was a crisp winter morning when a motely crowd of innovators assembled quietly in a conference hall of the national capital’s prestigious India International Center to learn craft of presenting their case before government bodies, philanthropists and other agencies for funding.

With a promise to give an encouraging platform to innovators and aspiring Startups, InnovatioCuris had organised the second IC Innovator Club meeting on November 26, 2017.

A medium height simpleton emerged on the scene and occupied center stage of the Sunday morning show, but patient listeners within split of seconds shed off doubts whether spending a precious Sunday morning in such a meet was rewarding or a mere waste.

The club meeting brought some big names of healthcare including PHFI, INMAS (DRDO), Amity University, IIHMR to name a few, under a single roof including experts from investing agencies, Startups, policy makers, academia and many more.

The members quickly envisioned pots of money for their dream projects mainly strategized to fulfill unmet needs of common people and the industry.

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One should avoid the following for a positive outcome:

Putting two different applications at the same time to same funder.
Doubling the funder (two funders for the same proposal).
Diverse and varied application should be avoided, instead thematic calls are better.

Glued to a widescreen where slides were scrolled for thumb rules while applying to such bodies for funding, innovators lent ears to Mission Director who at an ease rolled out drill for a successful applicant.

Batting with a straight blade, he minced no words to articulate the harsh reality that there was no scope to dodge funders to siphon money from them on bogus facts and figures. No cutting of corners; no double play with different funders; no concealment of facts; no new sets of facts and figures for same projects with different bodies; and no lobbying were among many during his opening remarks.

Dr. Shirshendu Mukherjee, Mission Director of Program Management Unit, jointly supported by the Department of Bio Technology, Bio Technology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC) –BMGF(BILL & MELINDA GATES) Foundation and Wellcome Trust unveiled points which play crucial role in attracting funds from various bodies.

In life of a researcher or innovator one important pillar for the success of his idea is getting the right funding. Innovation is not only about ideas.It’s about making the ideas happen and sometimes difficult to convert a good idea on to a paper.

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The agenda of IC Innovator Club’s second meeting was to share the views and knowledge on how to write a research or a grant proposal so that the innovator is successful in bringing his innovation to real world by implementing ideas.

Dr. Mukherjee insisted that art of communication is trick of the trade as in the world of tearing hurry ambience and cut-throat competition no one has time to flip through bulky dossiers.

According to Dr Mukherjee, “Winning a grant is how compelling story (of your idea) you tell”. He said writing a grant application is like narrating a story with once upon a time to a happily lived ever after. By this what he meant was, it is important to narrate the beginning, ending and all the important milestones to the funding agency very clearly and in chronological order with a proper flow of events to take place for the innovation to happen.

Dr. Mukherjee beautifully divided the prospective challenges of innovation broadly under three stages: Discovery, Development and Delivery. Major challenges under the discovery stage being to understand the problem, limited market pull and push in non-commercial indications and lack of local research infrastructure. Under the development stage, he told the major challenge faced by an innovator could be the translation of the idea to the product. Adding to it, lack of local development infrastructure, complex IP and regulatory pathway also contribute to the challenges faced during the development stage of an innovation.

Dr Mukherjee also told “One should keep in mind the unmet need of the market and the funding space available for area of interest”. About the dedicated experts and advisors being appointed in the funding agencies, he advised participants to seek advice on the funding space relevance of their proposal through these experts.

According to the expert, few of the challenges that one can expect during his project/work could be regulatory, IP or IT related, business plan development challenges, challenges in developing business exit plan etc.

Dr. Mukherjee encouraged the participants by saying “A successful proposal is 60% science and rest 40% is the foresightedness” that is how accurately down the line one can see and plan.

Sharing about Program Related investments, Dr. Mukherjee made a bold statement which could make an enormous impact in the applicant’s life. He said, “The applicant should also do due diligence on the funder, it is not only the right of a funder to do due diligence on the applicant, but also the applicant should do due diligence on the funder”. He also discussed few points on how one can perform the above said task, like visiting their respective websites, noticing what they have funded in last two years and others.

Best approach for applying a grant is ‘Two funder approach’. Approach is also a crucial factor in determining the progress of the application says Dr. Mukherjee. Benefit of doubt always rests in court of applicant, meaning if one of the reviewers is in favor the application and rest are not then also the applicant would get a chance to defend his application at first.

Further discussing about the ideas and points to be taken care of while drafting the proposal application, views were discussed on how one can write a comprehensive application with a suitable title and an impactful abstract.

Budgeting is very important in every aspect of life and so is the case while writing a grant application. The budget should be exhaustive and self-explanatory says Dr. Mukherjee. One should be realistic in quoting the budget and should avoid any kind of hidden costs or inflation in costing.

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Invitation to join us at INDIA MEDICAL DEVICE 2018

InnoHEALTH Magazine — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 07:05:59 +0000

We as InnoHEALTH Magazine are happy to announce that we have joined INDIA MEDICAL DEVICE 2018 as a media partner.

We encourage you to visit the exhibition and conference from 15-17 February 2018 at Bangalore International Exhibition Centre, Bengaluru.

The link for registration and agenda are given below:

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We will be present ourselves all three days. Please come and say hello to us, if you are in Bengaluru during 15-17th Feb 2018.

For any queries regarding the event, directly contact FICCI personnel:

Mr. Kamal Bhardwaj, Joint Director, Phone No.: +91 11 23357353, Mob: +91 9899392930, Email:kamal.bhardwaj@ficci.com
Mr. Mehul Tyagi, Deputy Director, Phone No.: +91 11 23765081, Mob: +91 9999829252, Email:mehul.tyagi@ficci.com .
Mr. Shubhankar Barbalia, Research Associate, Phone No.: +91 11 23487533, Fax: +91 11 23359734, Mob: +91 9718989654, Email: shubhankar.barbalia@ficci.com .

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Read all the issues of InnoHEALTH magazine:
InnoHEALTH Volume 1 Issue 1 (July to September 2016) – https://goo.gl/iWAwN2
InnoHEALTH Volume 1 Issue 2 (October to December 2016) – https://goo.gl/4GGMJz
InnoHEALTH Volume 2 Issue 1 (January to March 2017) – https://goo.gl/DEyKnw
InnoHEALTH Volume 2 Issue 2 (April to June 2017) – https://goo.gl/Nv3eev
InnoHEALTH Volume 2 Issue 3 (July to September 2017) – https://goo.gl/MCVjd6
InnoHEALTH Volume 2 Issue 4 (October to December 2017) – http://amzn.to/2B2UMLw
InnoHEALTH Volume 3 Issue 1 (January to March 2018) – https://goo.gl/fksdQx

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Press Release: InnoHEALTH 2017

InnoHEALTH Magazine — Sat, 16 Sep 2017 04:45:03 +0000

Press Release: InnoHEALTH Conference 2017, 18-19 September, New Delhi, www.innohealth.in
The two-day international conference “InnoHEALTH 2017” will take place in New Delhi, India on 18^th and 19^th September 2017 at ShangriLa’s Eros Hotel. It is an annual feature and is second in the series.
InnoHEALTH 2017 organizers InnovatioCuris and Indiattitude are working with a vision of bringing down the healthcare delivery cost yet maintaining the quality. InnoHEALTH 2017 is doing so by creating deliberations among policy makers, industry and academia on topics linked with Innovations in Hospitals, Diagnostics, Medical devices, Pharma, Biotech, Digital healthcare and New delivery models. The conference is also providing a platform for Indian innovators to pitch their innovations and compete for a Young Innovators Award.
The conference will see around 400 people in two days including 60 renowned speakers from all over the world. The CEO of NITI Aayog, Ambassadors of Foreign missions in India, DG Armed Forces Medical services and Prof Anil Gupta known for his work on innovations would attend and share their views. The conference is hosting a B2B meeting on 18^th September to connect Indian stakeholders with a visiting European Union Delegation pertaining to innovative health sector companies. The companies are selected through a competitive program with a focus on cost effective innovations for Indian market.
The conference is also joined by many partners such as Estonia as a country partner, NHSRC representing MoHFW, Government of India, Public Health Foundation of India, CAHO as the association of accredited hospitals of India, AHPI representing more than 10,000 private healthcare providers. IAMI bringing the clinicians involved in healthcare analytics, ScanBalt Forum bringing the outreach to more than 22,000 professionals in 11 European countries and many others.

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InnovatioCuris joining hands with Indiattitude for InnoHEALTH 2017

InnoHEALTH Magazine — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 08:06:19 +0000

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We have been sharing with you our plans of InnoHEALTH 2017. We are happy to announce, that we are joining hands with Indiattitude for the InnoHEALTH conference. (refer picture below with Mr Amit Saroj of IndiAttitude exchanging signed MoU with me)

Their deep experience of over 17 years would enable us to provide a better platform for deliberating on healthcare innovations. We have started the registration process, register before the early bird discount ends.

You will be receiving all communication related to InnoHEALTH 2017 directly from the conference secretariat managed by Indiattitude.

InnoHEALTH aspires to become the best platform in the country for ‘Innovations in Healthcare‘, which is not possible without your involvement. If you want to discuss any synergies/sponsorship/partnership opportunites. Drop an email to innohealth2017@indiattitude.com

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Select Highlights of InnoHEALTH 2017

Thought Leaders from Around the World
Indian Healthcare Startup Ecosystem: Startups/Investors/Academia/Policy Makers
Young Innovator’s Award
Select Delegation of Innovative Healthcare Companies from the European Union

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