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The future of healthcare

InnoHEALTH Magazine — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 07:35:04 +0000

Digital Health: Giving Birth to New Delivery Models and Fostering Innovations

Imagine a world where patient information is accurate, accessible, reliable, and safe. The opportunities and benefits are endless: availability, accuracy, portability and privacy of patient information, confidence on the information in an emergency, ease in searching and finding patterns, medical and post ops management with proactive reminders influencing patient behavior, and minimizing insurance and substance abuse. In recent times, we have seen tremendous progress in the evolution of cloud technology. Cloud enables easy access to shared configurable technology resources that can be utilized to rapidly create and deploy new services.

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Followings are the some of the key challenges that remain to improve healthcare:
• Investment – Compared to the other countries, very small % of Indian GDP is spent on developing healthcare which is about 100 times less than the United States.
• Geography – A wide gap remains between rural and urban healthcare. Most of our healthcare resources are concentrated in big cities leaving the rural areas with no or almost no resources to meet the growing healthcare need.
• Infrastructure – The number of hospitals and health centers in India are far less than what is required. Except for a few super specialty hospitals, most of the hospitals and health centers in India do not have proper infrastructure to provide quality services.

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It makes sense then that in India where there is always a huge gap between demand and availability of quality healthcare that cloud technology can play a huge role. Cloud based technology solutions can be leveraged to provide efficient and high-quality services in healthcare at an affordable price for remote locations with little to no infrastructure. With the advancement of technology, cloud is becoming more and more secured and compliant with regulations. Adopting cloud based technology solutions will all organizations engaged in healthcare to focus more on their core activities and reduce utilization of resources that manage technology.

Key research tells us that with digitization of medical data, medical knowledge has increased by 2 times or more in past 3 to 5 years. The way cloud is being adopted more and more by the industry globally and with the growing need for collaboration, flexibility and improved patient care, we can say that cloud will eventually become a commonplace in the industry.

As seen in countries that have developed healthcare systems, these capabilities were key in the development of healthcare to a point where no avenue is left unexplored in the strive towards improvement of healthcare for its citizens.

While the road to these advances may have been littered with challenges, impediments, false starts and hurdles, technologies today and the lessons learned therein will allow developing nations to avoid such pitfalls and leapfrog their healthcare eco-system into the future!

(Contributors: Kausik Bhattacharya, Johnson & Johnson, Sandipan Gangopadhyay, President and COO, Galaxe Solutions. Dheeraj Misra and Anusha Panduga also from Galaxe Solutions.)

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VISIT LAUNCH SWASTHA BHARAT M-HEALTH APP

InnoHEALTH Magazine — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 07:21:35 +0000

MapmyIndia and VISIT Internet Services Pvt Ltd have come together to help the government launch Swastha Bharat m-health app for smart cities, tier-2 towns and villages powered by their mapping technologies and AI-enabled tele-medicine platform, respectively. The app allows citizens to access emergency ambulance services find nearby hospitals, clinics, labs, pharmacy outlets and consult doctors and specialists over chat, phone and video. Mapmyindia’s GPS technology and mapping data enables one tap ambulance requests helping governments build emergency response infrastructure for cities, towns and villages. Users can also lookup nearest health centres, fix doctor appointments and order medicines from nearby pharmacies. The app also solves health queries by providing instant health answers to the citizens through a chat based health assistant.

The live chat service is developed by VISIT and backed by India’s top doctors who keep reviewing the information provided to the citizens. The health assistant can also help users in diagnosing health issues; provide instant suggestions and home remedies. Users also get health recommendations about the most chatted issues by people based on the users’ demographic data and past history to help them avoid any possible health concerns. The chat assistant can also provide information on local epidemics and necessary preventive steps to be taken.

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INDIA EXPLORES NEW DESTINATIONS FOR MEDICAL TOURISM

InnoHEALTH Magazine — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 07:28:09 +0000

Medical tourism is a growing sector in India. In October 2015, India’s medical tourism sector was estimated to be worth US$3 billion. It is projected to grow to $7–8 billion by 2020. According to the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII), the primary reason that attracts medical value travel to India is cost-effectiveness, and treatment from accredited facilities at par with developed countries at much lower cost. The Medical Tourism Market Report: 2015 found that India was “one of the lowest cost and highest quality of all medical tourism destinations, it offers wide variety of procedures at about one-tenth the cost of similar procedures in the United States.”

Foreign patients travelling to India to seek medical treatment in 2012, 2013 and 2014 numbered 171,021, 236,898, and 184,298 respectively. Traditionally, the United States and the United Kingdom have been the largest source countries for medical tourism to India. However, according to a CII-Grant Thornton report released in October 2015, Bangladeshis and Afghans accounted for 34% of foreign patients, the maximum share, primarily due to their close proximity with India and poor healthcare infrastructure. Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) accounted for 30 percent share of foreign medical tourist arrivals. Other major sources of patients include Africa and the Middle East, particularly the Persian Gulf countries. In 2015, India became the top destination for Russians seeking medical treatment. Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bangalore and the National Capital Region received the highest number of foreign patients primarily from South Eastern countries.

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Attractions

Advantages of medical treatment in India include reduced costs, the availability of latest medical technologies, and a growing compliance on international quality standards, Doctors trained in western countries including US and UK, as well as English-speaking personnel, due to which foreigners are less likely to face language barrier in India. According to the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII), the primary reason that attracts medical value travel to India is cost-effectiveness, and treatment from accredited facilities at par with developed countries at much lower cost. The Medical Tourism Market Report: 2015 found that India was “one of the lowest cost and highest quality of all medical tourism destinations, it offers wide variety of procedures at about one-tenth the cost of similar procedures in the United States.”

Cost

Most estimates found that treatment costs in India start at around one-tenth of the price of comparable treatment in the United States or the United Kingdom. The most popular treatments sought in India by medical tourists are alternative medicine, bone-marrow transplant, cardiac bypass, eye surgery and hip replacement. India is known in particular for heart surgery, hip resurfacing and other areas of advanced medicine.

Quality of care

India has 28 Joint Commission International (JCI) accredited hospitals. However, for a patient traveling to India, it is important to find the optimal Doctor-Hospital combination. After the patient has been treated, the patient has the option of either recuperating in the hospital or at a paid accommodation nearby. Many hospitals also give the option of continuing the treatment through tele-medicine.

The city of Chennai has been termed “India’s health capital”. Multi and super-specialty hospitals across the city bring in an estimated 150 international patients every day. Chennai attracts about 45 percent of health tourists from abroad arriving in the country and 30 to 40 per cent of domestic health tourists.

Factors behind the tourist inflow in the city include low costs, little to no waiting period, and facilities offered at the specialty hospitals in the city. Chennai has an estimated 12,500 hospital beds, of which only half is used by the city’s population with the rest being shared by patients from other states of the country and foreigners. Dental clinics have attracted dental care tourism to Chennai.

Ease of travel

The government has removed visa restrictions on tourist visas that required a two-month gap between consecutive visits for people from Gulf countries which is likely to boost medical tourism. A visa-onarrival scheme for tourists from select countries has been instituted which allows foreign nationals to stay in India for 30 days for medical reasons. In 2016, citizens of Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Maldives, Republic of Korea and Nigeria availed the most medical visas.

Language

Despite India’s diversity of languages, English is an official language and is widely spoken by most people and almost universally by medical professionals. In Noida, which is fast emerging as a hotspot for medical tourism, a number of hospitals have hired language translators to make patients from Balkan and African countries feel more comfortable while at the same time helping in the facilitation of their treatment.

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INNOVATING CARE: HEALTHCARE TO WELLCARE

InnoHEALTH Magazine — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 05:54:54 +0000

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Innovating Care: Healthcare to Wellcare
Steven Yeo, Founder & CEO, TalentGrid Ventures Pte. Ltd. has more than 25 years of international business and management experience working with government, multi-national corporations and non-profit organisations. He specialises in healthcare, advanced technology and life sciences practice group for both multinationals and local companies. Prior to starting up TalentGrid Ventures Pte Ltd, Steven was the EVP for DHR International a global-retained search firm covering Asia Pacific. He was also the Vice President and Executive Director for HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society – the largest Healthcare IT society in the world). Steven was also the Director of Intel Corporation managing its e-Business Group and Digital Health Group from 1999-2008 in the Asia Pacific region.

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Healthcare today is in a truly interesting state of transition from traditional to wellcare models, powered by technology and disruptive innovation. To address the prevailing healthcare challenges and also leverage on the opportunities, there needs to be a coordinated effort across multiple stakeholders in order to deliver innovation that can improve outcomes, expand access and increase affordability of healthcare in Asia Pacific and beyond.

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We are at the turning point of a new generation of healthcare: The transition from healthcare to wellcare, facilitated by technology and innovation that can help improve individual patient outcomes and elevate the standard of care. The transition is, however, not always a smooth one. In Asia, which is considered to be the fastest-growing and most dynamic region in the world today, there still exists a huge disparity in access to high quality and cost-effective healthcare for millions of people. In fact, the need in some Asian countries is particularly acute, especially with the rapid growth of the ageing population.

Lack of patient awareness, infrastructure, proper training for healthcare professionals, and in some cases, lack of healthcare manpower itself, are just some of the barriers to effective healthcare and recovery. On the other hand, there are also empowered and engaged healthcare consumers who may have a different set of needs to satisfy. In order to address these barriers while at the same time pushing down costs, healthcare experts collectively agree on one thing – innovation. Disruptive innovation, according to some, because current healthcare systems in place are ailing and they need help.

By definition, disruptive innovation is one that creates a new market and value network by disrupting an existing market either through a brand new solution or a perhaps a creative spin on something that already exists in order to deliver better results. Healthcare today is in a truly disruptive state, opening up doors for opportunities for different healthcare stakeholders.

Innovating Care Asia Pacific (ICAP) 2016 conference is an event platform that aims to build a community of highly influential, knowledgeable, and very well connected healthcare professionals, decision makers, thought leaders and influencers who are passionate about transforming healthcare, for the greater good of the patients and other healthcare consumers. There is a great need to address prevailing challenges and leverage on the opportunities – and these require a coordinated effort across multiple stakeholders in order to deliver innovation that can improve outcomes, expand access and increase affordability of healthcare in Asia Pacific.

The Silver Tsunami

Considering that most of the countries in Asia Pacific are rapidly ageing, with a vast majority of those above 60 yrs requiring treatments and assisted care, governments and concerned institutions are therefore hard-pressed to establish and implement measures that would help the seniors age-in-place and continue living fulfilled lives.

Singapore is one of the fastest ageing countries in the world. According to the Long-Term Care in Singapore Challenges and Learning Points presentation by the Ministry of Health (Singapore), the estimated number of Singaporeans aged 65 and above who may require assistance with mobility and other activities of daily living is expected to nearly triple between 2010 and 2030. Which means that by 2030, one in five Singaporeans will be aged 65 and older and there will be nearly a million elderly, most of whom will be afflicted with at least one chronic disease, resulting in reduced autonomy and lower quality of life.

To ensure good quality of life for the seniors even as they grow frail, the Singapore government is now looking into a more patient-centric view of long-term care focusing on accessibility, quality and affordability. Meanwhile, innovators from the private sector continuously churn out innovative solutions and re-engineering care models to help the elderly cope with ageing, whether in the confines of their own home or in nursing homes. These innovations may come in the form of health kiosks, ILTC subsidies, augmentation of manpower with the use of technology and more. In other developed countries like Japan, said to be the world’s most ageing society, more radical solutions have been devised to meet this challenge. In less developed countries in the region, you might be surprised to see unexpected forms of innovation that deliver tremendous results as what the Indian hospitals that became the subjects of Vijay Govindarajan and Ravi Ramamurti’s Harvard Business Review-published study called Delivering World-Class Healthcare, Affodably, have shown.

Taking off from the discussion and knowledge exchange that had transpired during the ICAP 2016 Conference, Innovating Care Asia Pacific is launching a vertical spin-off forum focusing mainly on Elderly and Home Care where decision makers, practitioners, researchers, service providers, and community members can share their experiences to support and empower rapidly ageing populations worldwide through the integration of healthcare, social participation and community.

As the healthcare sector slowly but steadily moves away from physician-centred to patient-centric health, patients are now encouraged and empowered to take charge of their health and treatment. And with the help of technology and innovation, patients are now also redefining the very borders of healthcare. As someone who has spent many years entrenched in the healthcare and healthcare IT sectors, I am happy to take part in this new revolution that will see more and more patients owning their health, as we slowly transit from traditional healthcare models to wellcare.

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