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Innovations for Hospitals

InnoHEALTH Magazine — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 08:24:56 +0000

This session was structured as a panel discussion. Chris Lloyd, Senior healthcare advisor –IBM Watson health, UK addressed with his keynote. The session was moderated by Dr. Vijay Agarwal, President – CAHO, India. Other panelists included

1. Dr. Chandy Abraham, CEO, Healthcare Project, ITC Limited, India
2. Kah Yee, Chairman of Ucrest Group, Malaysia
3. Amarjeet Singh, Director- Key Accounts & Projects, Getinge Group, India

The discussion was introduced by a brief presentation on healthcare delivery focusing in particular on Innovations for hospitals. Dr.Vijay Agarwal Facilitated the discussion, inviting panelists to reflect on different aspects of innovations.

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Dr. Vijay Agarwal started the discussion with emphasizing the need to know why one is innovating before innovating something. He said one should ask oneself that why is he/her innovating. He was concerned with the WHO rankings, where India is at 112 and countries like Bangladesh, Cuba are ahead of our country in providing healthcare, which is an alarming situation and time to think where are we lagging in. He stressed on scaling up innovations in India. As the need for providing the root level population with healthcare delivery is more important than innovating new things and suggested ways to contribute to achieving it.

Chris Lloyd presented his keynote by firstly Encouraging the platform of InnoHEALTH where all kinds of people from various fields of expertise, influential and innovative people are present. Stressed on a significant problem of diabetics. In their country, they spend 2/5th of the budget on people above 65. Need to bridge the gap between resources and patient needs. Looked into Singapore master plan in healthcare as the target model as it’s the second most rapidly aging country. It takes a Rubik’s cube approach to change the care dynamic. Compared and showcased opportunities in conventional medicine vs telemedicine.

Chandy Abraham shared his thoughts of Innovation starting from new ways, design thinking models allow for innovation from root level emphasized on patient outcomes. Insisted on getting as many as people in this pool to get new ideas. Spoke on how hospitals should create a culture of innovation.

“Innovations starts by seeing with new eyes” – Dr.Chandy

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Provision of providing time to explore and experiments, resources for trials and prototypes and aligning innovation with long term strategic goals should be encouraged. Emphasised on overcoming the hindrances by design thinking method, setting up innovation centre.

“Most innovative companies don’t do one thing focussed on innovation, they create an integrated system of activities that all reinforce each other to shape culture. They eliminate the feeling of risk altogether and replace it with an environment focussed on collaboration and learning”.

Kah Yee presented his startup – Ucrest, concept of virtual Hospital. Discussed revolutionary changes and healthcare opportunities, opportunities for IoT and wearables. The challenges of Big Data in EMR which were collection continuous personal digital medical records, No hospitals/Clinics has aggregated continuous digital medical records of a patient. The opportunities from these challenges would be data Collection of accurate and useful data, analytics of big data for insurance, pharma, doctors or health authority, preventive medicine and discovery of new medication or treatment methods. Challenges and opportunities in Big Data benefits Pharma and insurance companies.

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Online Medical Consultation can take a new way of consulting by D2D2P i.e. Doctor of Center of Excellence to Doctor to Patient (D2D2P) and explained the concept by showcasing the example of a Shangai hospital which is currently practising such method of online medical consultation. “when things go online ,it will go cheaper” – Kah Yee. He then embraced online Healthcare & technologies.

He concluded by making strong recommendations on gathering information and data that would establish undiscovered links and mentioned the takeaways from his presentation as

Revolutionary changes are here: Online Healthcare, IOT/Wearables, Blockchain, AI, etc. are fast growing
New business models, new opportunities for all stakeholders of the industry
Pharma retail stores will reduce
Doctors, pharma & insurance will move towards value-based system
Regulatory changes

Amarjeet Singh Tak, The value we offer to our customers – Superior clinical outcomes at affordable costs by improving; Clinical outcomes and reducing the length of stay; Efficiency and minimizing Hospital Acquired Infections. He addressed with the today’s challenges in hospitals by jotting them down as:

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1. Hospitals are wasting money on excess administrative costs and ineffective way of care delivery.

2. Hospital Communications: Latest information available on one point only. And that becomes Stress for coordinators as the central point of information

Solution from Getinge: INSIGHT Clinical Logistics: The Interactive Way Consistent and timely care with clear communication throughout the patient journey can lead to increased efficiencies and better outcomes. INSIGHT Increases patient focus by making relevant real-time treatment and care information readily available on dedicated large screens throughout the hospital.

Q&A session :

After the panel discussion, some time was given to comments and queries from the floor. Some of the questions asked by people in the audience are given below.

What is the optimum size of the hospital (cost wise): 2000 bed in London but statistics say that no much productivity, 500 can be optimum.

Virtual hospitals or clinical trial FDA approval is a trouble: No such system for clinical trials yet.

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InnoHEALTH 2018: Call for speakers

InnoHEALTH Magazine — Mon, 26 Feb 2018 11:10:08 +0000

Every year we scout for inspiring and innovative work through our community. Can you help us find one! This year the conference theme is ‘Inspiring Moonshots in Healthcare‘. The conference takes place on 5-6 October 2018 at the Leela Ambience Hotel, Gurugram. (Delhi Capital Region)

Our call for speakers is now open and we are soliciting interest from individuals/organisations to nominate inspiring speakers. Please fill the form below to express your interest before 31st of March 2018.

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InnoHEALTH 2018 is the third in the series of InnoHEALTH annual conference, building on the success of InnoHEALTH 2017 and InnoHEALTH 2016 which saw over 500 participants from over a dozen countries.

InnoHEALTH 2018 also brings best of the globe by partnering with its long term partners from

World Health Innovation Network, Canada
Talent grid Ventures, Singapore
ScanBalt Forum, Europe

and participation from many other foreign countries.

The conference program will comprise of talks by globally renowned healthcare experts, panel discussions, startup pitches, innovator’s award and B2B meetings.

We expect that InnoHEALTH 2018 will see upto 500 National and International experts including a select delegation of innovative companies from multiple member states of the European Union.

Some of the major topics of discussion and activities at InnoHEALTH 2018 include

Innovations for Hospitals
Advances in Diagnostics
Make in India Opportunities: Biotech, Medical Devices and Future Technologies
India EU Collaboration in Health Sector: Startups and Challenges
Digital Health: giving birth to new delivery models through mobile, blockchain and AI
Achieving Universal Health Coverage and Insurance led innovations
Innovation pitches from Indian and Global companies
Stakeholder Session
Innovators’ award
B2B meetingss

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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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