Diabetes and Digital: Discussion on Unmet Needs and How Digital Tools Can Help?

Panel discussion by ExperimentsWithSugar team for FTR4H in Medical Fair India 2019.

ExperimentsWithSugar, a non-profit initiative under InnovatioCuris Foundation of Healthcare & Excellence (ICFHE), participated in a panel discussion on “Diabetes and Digital: Discussion on unmet needs and how digital tools can help?” which was a part of FTR4H (Future for Health) under the MEDICAL FAIR INDIA 2019 banner.
The panel was moderated by Sachin Gaur and was graced by panelists Surgeon Rear Admiral (Retd.) Dr V K Singh, Mukul Bagga and Dr Vibha Jain.
The panel discussion strikingly discussed about the challenges in behaviour change and lack of right information and actionable insights fora patient and clinicians alike.
The panel discussed about

• The wildfire growth of Type 2 diabetes in India; its knowns and unknowns
• Proposals to fix the on coming diabetic epidemic situation
• Unmet needs of stakeholders in terms of diabetics, care givers,clinicians, diagnostics, etc.
• Prediction of digital tools in the Indian healthcare diabetes landscape

Some moments from the panel discussion can be found at experimentswithsugar.in/participation-gallery