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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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Innovative approach to a healthy life

InnoHEALTH Magazine — Fri, 09 Feb 2018 07:42:23 +0000

A two-day national level event InnoHEALTH 2017 was hosted in the capital with international participants. Vigyan Arya reports about the two-day high profile event attended by leading industry representatives from India and abroad.

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A voice to raise concern about the increasing cost of health and medical facilities was given a platform at the two-day InnoHEALTH 2017 that was hosted on September 18th and 19th in the capital. In the second year of its running, the event was co-hosted by InnovatioCuris and Indiattitude that extended a stage for innovations in the field of health and medicine.

Addressing the large gathering of doctors and high-profile professionals from the industry, Dr V.K. Singh, the visionary behind this event conveyed that the prime objective of this mega event is to contribute towards bringing down the healthcare delivery cost yet maintaining the quality.

InnoHEALTH 2017 helped in 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 saw an attendance of around 250 Delegates with an overwhelming response of 170 on the very first day including 50 elite speakers from all over the world.

H.E. Riho Kruuv, Estonian Ambassador to India, DG Armed Forces Medical Services and Prof. Anil Gupta known for his work of innovations were some of the key speakers. The attendance saw presence from renowned healthcare personalities such as Dr. Arvind Lal of Lal Pathlabs, Dr. Ravi Gaur CEO Oncquest Labs, Dr. Padam Khanna – NHSRC, Mr. Partha Dey – IBM India, Mr. R Rengarajan Iyengar from HCL Healthcare.

On the first day of the power-packed two-day event, the conference hosted a B2B meeting to connect the Indian stakeholders with a visiting European Union delegation pertaining to innovative health sector companies. The companies were selected through a competitive program with a focus on cost-effective innovations for the Indian market.

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With the objective of making it an international platform for the industry professionals with similar aims and goals, the conference had very high-profile brands, corporate and government organizations shouldering their support. Conference also hosted young innovators award.

The big boost in the confidence and capabilities of the conference was extended by the Embassy of Estonia, as the country partner. Other leading partners included, NHSRC representatives of MoHFW, Government of India, Public Health Foundation of India; CAHO as the association of accredited hospitals of India and AHPI that represents more than 10,000 private healthcare providers. IAMI brought in the clinicians involved in healthcare analytics while ScanBalt brings the outreach to more than 22,000 professionals in 11 European countries.

There were many more that contributed feathers to the hat to make InnoHEALTH 2017 a very successful event in terms of the perceived outcome.

The two-day event saw some very insightful discussions on, Innovations for Hospitals; Diagnostics of Tomorrow; Innovations for Affordable Healthcare – A Medical Device Perspective and Public Health and Biotech, on the first day of the conference.

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The second day started off with a very informative keynote address by Professor Rishikesha T. Krishnan of IIM Indore. He is a Director and Professor of Strategic Management at the Indian Institute of Management in Indore.

It was followed by discussions on Healthcare Beyond Hospitals; Innovations in the Pharma Sector; Digital Health: Giving birth to new delivery models and fostering innovations, finally followed by Challenges and Redefining Healthcare Landscape.

The last two sessions of the day opened a very important chapter in the field of innovations in health sector. Indian and international companies were given a platform to make their pitch claiming the coveted Innovations titles. The finale was the dispensing of Young Innovations Awards.

Overwhelmed by the encouraging response this year, the organizers announced the dates for the next InnoHEALTH 2018, to take place on 5th – 6th October 2018, with a raised hope to come back next year keeping shared goals in healthcare with only, bigger, better and meatier roles for all stakeholders.

[vc_cta h2=””]His Excellency Riho Kruuv; Estonian Ambassador to India
I am very proud to be representative of Estonia as Country Partner for this conference on Innovations in Health Care because Estonia is a country that is all about innovations and fast adaptation of new technology. Estonia did not invent internet but we use it to the maximum especially in the health care society. In fact, in 26 years since independence, we have now become a digital society.“[/vc_cta][vc_cta h2=””]Dr V.K. Singh
Innovation is not very old. Despite that Public Health is the most curative neglected area as most doctors do not wish to go in that direction. Most prefer to work in the preventive medication that is more lucrative and appeals to most, even to the students, much before they even become qualified doctors.[/vc_cta]

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