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Artificial Intelligence Coming Big Way in Healthcare Sector

InnoHEALTH Magazine — Mon, 19 Nov 2018 10:13:51 +0000

Brig Arvind Lal, CMD of Dr Lal Path Labs, is a pioneer in bringing laboratory services in India at par with the western world. In 1977, he took charge of the medical diagnostics laboratory founded in 1949 by his late father. Under his expert guidance and leadership, the initiative has become one of the most reputed laboratories in Asia, having to its credit quality accreditations from various national and international bodies.

The critical care environment has undergone significant alterations in the past several years. This has happened because our lifestyles in the fast-paced lives of modern India are ensuring that most people, in the age group of 30-50 years are falling prey to life-threatening cardiac diseases and strokes, in addition to diabetes, hypertension, cancers, liver, kidney and lung diseases – these diseases being called Non-Communicable Diseases or NCDs. They are now responsible for killing more than 65% of our population says Dr Arvind Lal, known for his diagnostic labs across the country.

Flagging concerns on such trends, these patients need high-cost intensive care, be it for complications of heart attacks, strokes, diabetes, hypertension, cancer or lung diseases. This is where the importance of Point-of-care testing (POCT) comes in. It helps in almost diagnosing the patient instantly and improves the physician’s ability to take immediate corrective action and decreases hospital stay. One such test is Troponin – that has revolutionized cardiac care by diagnosing heart attacks or myocardial infarction.

This article is based on the keynote address on the occasion of 2nd Annual International InnoHEALTH Conference 2017 – ‘Transforming Healthcare Through Innovation’ in New Delhi, said there are numerous promising diagnostic technologies. The key message is that in a country where 70% of the population lives in rural surroundings, ‘it is our duty to rapidly adopt disruptive innovative affordable technologies including telemedicine. Thus, our underserved population would be able to avail of the best treatment possible and bring in massive visible change’. He said the importance of bringing quality healthcare needs no reminder and the time has come for India to change the direction of healthcare for the masses.

Healthcare is a right – and access to good healthcare should not depend on where one lives and how much he or she earns. But sadly, that is exactly what plagues India’s healthcare today, he lamented. India faces a severe shortage of both hard infrastructure and talent. With about one doctor and one functional bed per 1000 population, healthcare is truly underserved in India. Add to this the regional imbalances and variations in healthcare delivery. The healthcare infrastructure is skewed towards urban over rural India.

Although rural India accounts for about 70% of the population, it has less than one-third of the nation’s hospitals, doctors and beds, resulting in large disparities in health outcomes across urban and rural India. British Medical Journal (BMJ) has observed that there is a remarkable saving of lives in India if good healthcare facilities consisting of operation theatres, surgeons, anaesthetists, blood banks are available within 50 kilometres of the patient providing quality medical services within the ‘golden hour’.

Though there has been a sea change in the last five decades, India now needs to reinvent the field of diagnostics as laboratory tests are responsible for 70% of all clinical or medical decisions.

In today’s life where internet rules the roost, the patients have become very knowledgeable, thanks to the globalisation of healthcare, and are demanding very high-quality healthcare for themselves. They are insisting on a very wholesome and satisfying experience rather than being told that the ‘treatment is over’.

Soon, a time will come when the tests shall be ordered by the patients based on clinical history and clinical findings that shall be answered by an Artificial Intelligence (AI) application. Artificial intelligence has already found several areas in healthcare from the design of treatment plans to assist in repetitive jobs to medication management and drug designing. The most obvious application of artificial intelligence in healthcare is data management. Collecting it, storing it, normalizing it, tracing its lineage – it may well be the first step in revolutionizing the existing healthcare systems.

Recently, the AI research branch of the search giant, Google, launched its Google Deepmind Health project, which is used to mine the data of medical records in order to provide better and faster health services. The project is in its initial phase, and at present, they are working with Moorfields Eye Hospital of NHS Foundation Trust, UK to improve eye treatment.

Just a few years ago the patient after giving the sample used to come back in the evening to the lab to collect a physical copy of the test report. This was replaced by making the report available on the internet that could be downloaded by the patient in the comfort of his home. These days this has been further replaced by making available an App on his mobile phone wherein he can book an appointment for the sample to be collected at home and the report being later available on the same mobile App.

‘IBM Watson, whose headquarters I had the privilege of visiting a few months back in the Silicon Valley, is an AI-based engine that has launched its special program for oncologists to provide clinicians evidence-based treatment options. The program has an advanced ability to analyze the meaning and context of structured and unstructured data in clinical notes and reports in its encyclopedic memory that may be critical to selecting a treatment pathway’. IBM launched another algorithm called Medical Sieve. It is an ambitious long-term exploratory project to build a next-generation ‘cognitive health assistant’ that is able to analyze radiology images to spot and detect abnormalities faster and more reliably. This shall help radiologists in the future to look at the most complicated cases where human supervision is essential.

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‘Wearable Tech is another area which I am personally very excited about. It has the potential to change the world as it helps people understand their own bodies by using mass data collected on a daily basis. From fitness bands to smartwatches to eye based wearables, they are being adopted widely. Take the case of Zephyr’s Anywhere Bio Patch which is an FDA-approved, small device that is attached to a patient’s chest and monitors their vitals minute-by-minute and collects medical-grade data for doctors’ use. These devices will connect our organs digitally, enabling disease detection at very early stages. It has the potential to bring down cardiac and other deaths drastically. This offers immense potential to do remote testing, monitoring and thus assisting the doctor in timely treatment’.

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Point of Care Testing: Technological advancements in laboratory automation, including POCT, and initiatives to increase patient satisfaction are transforming the clinical laboratory market. POCT has come a long way from a handful of simple tests to a multibillion-dollar global market that holds great promise for the future. Not so long ago, laboratory data would often arrive at the bedside too late to be of significant use in the active, continuing care of critically ill patients. Now, most clinicians acknowledge that POCT is a prerequisite for early recognition of life-threatening conditions as they require that laboratory results are made available in real-time and, if possible, at the critically ill patient’s point of care. The College of American Pathologists defines POCT as tests designed to be used at or near the site where the patient is located, that do not require permanent dedicated space, and that are performed outside the physical facilities of the clinical laboratories.

Examples include kits and instruments that are hand-carried or transported to the vicinity of the patient for immediate testing at that site (e.g. capillary blood glucose) or analytical instruments that are temporarily brought to a patient care location (like operating room, intensive care unit). In many cases, the simplicity was not achievable until technologies developed that was simple and affordable. For example, various kinds of urine test strips have been available for decades, but portable ultrasonography did not reach the stage of being advanced, affordable and widespread until recently. Similarly, pulse oximetry can test arterial oxygen saturation in a quick, simple, non-invasive, affordable way today, but in earlier eras, this required an intra-arterial needle puncture and a laboratory test. Thus, over decades, testing continues to move toward the point of care.

The lab-on-a-chip (LOC) is another device that integrates one or several laboratory functions on a single integrated circuit (commonly called a “chip”) of only a few square centimetres to achieve automation and high throughput screening. Imagine that a patient comes to one of our 2,100 collection centres in the remote tier three or tier four towns in India with the high fever. We take a drop of blood from his finger and inform the clinician almost immediately that the patient is suffering from Chikungunya and not from Malaria or Typhoid, or Dengue fever or Japanese Encephalitis – all in a matter of minutes! The driving notion behind POCT is to bring the test conveniently and immediately to the patient. Needless to add, the patient’s data by POCT shall be made available to update the patient’s electronic health records (EHR).

Talking about POCT Instruments: Currently, two broad type of POCT instruments are available: Small benchtop analyzers (for example, blood gas and electrolyte systems) and handheld, single-use devices (such as urine albumin, blood glucose, and coagulation tests). Now let us talk about if POCT is Boon or Bane? The strong point of POCT is speed and the rapidity with which it shall save lives in emergencies. As India marches towards quality healthcare delivery, in course of time regulatory compliances shall have to be adhered to in the interest of the patient’s health.

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10 Latest Healthcare Innovations

InnoHEALTH Magazine — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 10:11:30 +0000

1. Powerdot

PowerDot works via a mobile app that uses Electrical Muscle Stimulation (EMS) to activate your muscle fibers, get your body’s lymphatic system flowing and increase the blood flow to targeted areas. Basically, it gets you moving. The result is the creation of a perfect environment for the body to recover faster, feel better and overall well-being. It also allows you to control your workout. An impulse is sent to the pods based on the muscle group you select to target which causes the muscles to activate. The feeling that it creates can be intense and bizarre at first, but you will get used to it in a few uses. It is also compact enough to carry on a holiday or trip and is available from £275 at PowerDot.

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2. Visit: An Artificial Intelligence Start-up

Artificial intelligence is the future and it aims at making human life easier. With this view, a Delhi-based start-up VISIT was launched in 2016 which is an on-demand healthcare service online platform that provides its users with a pool of medical specialists and general physicians to choose from, for consultation. The facility has an artificial intelligence based ‘chatbot’ that acts as a digital assistant to provide ‘smart help’ to patients in getting a consultation from doctors. The chatbot comes with a USP that when a patient accesses it for help, it learns using the information given by the patient and uses the information to reinforce its decision network.

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The chatbot tracks user’s activity, sleep, calories and fitness data to help them reach their goals with continuous reminders, insights, and motivation. The VISIT offers paid online consultation, through video and voice channels and seven days of free follow-up check-up over text chat. The service also maintains a pool of MBBS doctors who through its ‘Q’ service offer free health advice by text. The pool of 2200 doctors includes psychologists, dieticians, dermatologists, sexologists, gynecologists, preventive cardiology and pediatricians besides general physicians.

3. Snore Circle

A China-based firm VVFLY Electronics has developed a smart anti-snoring eye mask called Snore Circle priced at nearly INR 9700. Snore Circle is a smart wearable sleeping mask that comes with a little module that uses sound detection and bone conduction to identify when one is snoring. Once that is done, it sends out little vibrations to trick one’s brain into tightening one’s throat muscles. Once the throat muscles are tightened, snoring should subside. The vibrations on the Snore Circle adjust to your snoring level and are tuned well enough so that they don’t get so strong that people just end up waking up instead they are just enough to alter your throat muscles. The mask has an 80 mAh battery and can detect snoring by giving out vibrations at 36 levels. It allows the users to monitor and analyze their snoring, its intensity and decibel level along with sleeping data through its Snore Circle App.

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4. Zipline: World’s Fastest Commercial Delivery Drone

US-based start-up Zipline has developed a drone that can deliver urgent medicines, blood and vaccines mid-flight. Hospitals can text orders to Zipline for the required products, which are packed at its centers and then launched aboard the drone that races along at over 100kmph. The autonomous drone then drops the package via parachute at the designated area. Zipline improves access to these supplies by flying over impassable mountains and washed-out roads, delivering directly to remote clinics. The supplies are centralized and provide on-demand deliveries, completely reducing waste and stock-outs. Zipline provides a seamless delivery system at an affordable price, obsessing over every

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detail so that healthcare providers can solely focus on patient health. Zipline created national drone delivery system to ship blood and drugs to remote medical centers in Rwanda. Now the company has developed world’s swiftest commercial delivery drone, with a top speed of 128kmph (a hair shy of 80mph) with its extended services in Tanzania.

5. Livehealth

This is an endeavor to make medical reports smarter. This Pune-based start-up, founded in 2013, works as a management information system for healthcare providers by using Artificial Intelligence to process a huge data of medical records and ERP transactions. The system collects samples, manages patient records, diagnoses them, generates reports and aids in billing and inventory, making the process smarter and more efficient. In nutshell, it’s an effort that digitizes diagnostic lab workflows through its SaaS platform and makes them available on the cloud to patients and doctors. Doctors and consultants get access to their patient records using a mobile app and the patients can use the app to understand their reports, analyze their past health data and monitor their health using trackers.

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Recently the company has raised US$1.1 mil from Nexus Venture Partners which it intends to use to expand its platform across India, explore international markets and to strengthen the product and technology. LiveHealth’s platform has digitized more than 72 million records, so far, and is delivering over 50,000 digital medical records to doctors and patients every day. The start-up works with more than 650 diagnostic centers across India and Africa to automate their operations i.e. to manage patients, financial transactions etc.

6. Niramai: A Novel Breast Cancer Screening Solution

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This Bangalore-based start-up, founded in 2016, uses artificial intelligence for a pain-free breast cancer screening. Recently, it had successfully raised money to scale up its efforts. The screening method can detect tumors five times smaller than what clinical examination can detect. It is a safe, non-touch, radiation-free, and low-cost method. Since it’s cost-effective and does not require heavy equipment this solution seems to be ideal for smaller towns where affordable health care is the need of the hour. Mammography works only for women over 40 and increasingly there has been a prevalence of breast cancer among young women, which makes a solution like this a welcome one. NIRAMAI uses a high-resolution thermal sensing device that scans the chest area like a camera. It then uses a cloud-hosted analytics solution for analyzing the thermal images. Its SaaS solution uses big data analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning for reliable, early and accurate breast cancer screening. The innovative methods used in the solution have led to multiple US patents, and their novel algorithms have also been peer-reviewed in international scientific conferences. The startup has already started two clinical trials with established hospitals.

7. Hearing Fitness App

Denmark-based company Oticon, a giant hearing solution manufacturer has launched the world’s first hearing fitness tracking technology that helps track hearing aid use and provides insights you can use to optimize your health. The app is based on big data analytics that combines lifestyle and healthcare data with local sound environment analysis and is designed to measure the impact of one’s hearing on their health. This app was declared the winner of the 2018 CES Innovation Award in the software and mobile apps category. Health Fitness gives advice and encouragement to help users hear better and stay healthy.

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8. Lumenis M22 Optimal Pulse Technology – An Effective Solution To Treat Dry Eyes

Dry eyes affect millions of adults and its risk increases with advancing age. Keeping this acute eye problem in mind, Lumenis worked in this direction. Lumenis, world’s largest energy-based medical device company for surgical, ophthalmology and aesthetic applications is renowned for its technological breakthroughs in ophthalmic lasers and has a long list of industry gold standards. Lumenis’ latest M22 optimal pulse technology is the answer to a majority of eye inflammation treatments with optimal pulse technology (OPT). Mumbai’s renowned super specialty eye care Ojas Eye Hospital has brought in India Lumenis M22 Optimal Pulse Technology (OPT) for treatment of dry eyes.

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The latest eye care technology is seen as a great revolutionary value addition to the ophthalmic applications especially for the treatment of dry eyes. The M22 services will be available at two branches of Ojas Eye Hospital, one at Bandra and the other at Kandivali. Recent studies have showcased prevalence of dry eyes among patients ranging across age groups. Meibomian Gland Dysfunction (MGD) is one of the leading causes of dry eye disease (DED), affecting millions of people worldwide. Optimal pulse technology from Lumenis has emerged as the most effective alternative for patients, leading to significant improvement in ocular surface quality, gland function and dry eye symptoms. The Lumenis M22 OPT is an excellent technology for treating eyelid inflammation. OPT is selectively absorbed in the hemoglobin of abnormal blood vessels and destroys them by thrombolysis thereby treating the root cause of the problem leading to immediate relief, a safe and comfortable, fast ‘lunchtime treatment’ and improves the skin appearance too.

9. Karma Healthcare

Karma Healthcare, a Rajasthan-based start-up in the technology-led healthcare space has recently raised INR 3 crores from different investors. The start-up aims to provide high quality, affordable, equitable and reliable healthcare to India’s underserved population via a differentiated business model. The company has combined the human touch of a nurse with the scalability of shared doctor services via real-time online video consultations. It delivers healthcare to consumers via e-Doctor clinics. The effort is to have e-clinics Pan-India. The company thus seeks to make the definitive large-scale impact and in-turn take significant steps towards ‘healthcare for all’. So far, the company has given over 50,000 consultations and currently has 10 e-Doctor clinics in the states of Haryana and Rajasthan.

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There is a comprehensive ecosystem of clinical treatment, quality medicines and diagnostics at competitive prices. The company has developed an in-house technology suite that helps it deliver standardized care including a bespoke Clinical Decision Support System and is extending its capabilities to deep learning driven diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring. The company has backing from Tata Trusts, UBS Optimus Foundation, and WISH Foundation.

10. Haemophilia Care in India

Haemophilia is a genetic disorder of blood coagulation due to decreased levels or a complete lack of clotting factors that results in profuse bleeding into joints, muscles or internal organs either spontaneously or as a result of accidental or surgical trauma. Globally, India is among the top ten countries of people living with Haemophilia A1 with about 18000 cases. Studies have revealed that by the age of 25 years, 79% of people with Haemophilia are likely to become severely disabled if proper treatment is not provided. Efforts are being made to tackle this situation, so in April this year, Lok Nayak Hospital jointly conducted a one-day patient awareness program “Haem Utsav”, e-learning to empower Haemophilia care in India supported by Novo Nordisk, India. An updated Haemophilia India website (www.haemophiliaindia.com) has been launched for e-learning. Delhi Government has won a global award for introducing yoga sutra in Haemophilia, taken up advocacy and capacity building programs, launched skill-based training programs and a self-infusion program and created self-help groups for Haemophilia.

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Latest innovations in healthcare

InnoHEALTH Magazine — Mon, 07 May 2018 06:33:05 +0000

Dr. Avantika Batish compiled some new innovations in healthcare, SOMNOX-A sleep robot, SUPERMEAT, BABYGOGO and Portable Bionic Hand

Supermeat

The Startup raises $ 3 million Supermeat is developing lab made chicken meat and is working on the meat making process which involves extracting cells from a chicken and feeding right nutrient to produce muscle and fat. The start up has recently raised $ 3 million in seed funding.

Somnox – A sleep robot

A sleep robot has been developed by a Netherlands based startup Somnox, which it claims can improve a user’s sleep through its breathing rhythm. The technology makes the pillow like device fall and rise which provides the user with a breathing sensation. The device can help one fall asleep effortlessly, get back to sleep if one wakes up inthe middle of the night and helps one feel safe while sleeping. The app connected device can also play the sound of heartbeats and music which automatically turns off after the user falls asleep.

Portable bionic hand

It mimics the sense of touch in case of an amputate hand Europe based scientists have developed the first portable bionic hand that mimics the sense of touch in case of an amputate hand. The prosthetic hand has sensors to detect whether an object is soft or hard. The computer processed information is relayed to the brain via electrodes implanted in the upper arm.

Babygogo

A Delhi- based child healthcare, Babygogo, startup founded by Siddharth Ahluwalia, Sowrabh N.R.S. and Satyadeep Karnatiin 2016, offers childcare help and medical advice to mothers. It allows parents to connect with paediatricians. The startup provides advice, across a range of child care issues, from experienced moms and medical practitioners through its mobile app.

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DocsApp RECEIVED ISO CERTIFICATIONS

InnoHEALTH Magazine — Fri, 29 Dec 2017 05:30:08 +0000

DocsApp
The First Online Healthcare Service Provider to Bag ISO Certifications

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DocsApp, a mobile app that connects patients to specialist doctors via chat or call in less than 30 mins, has received three International Organization Standardization (ISO) certifications from Euro American Joint Accreditation. The certifications garnered are, ISO 9001:2015 for quality management system, ISO 27001:2013 for information security management system and ISO 10002:2014 for quality management, customer satisfaction and complaints handling. These certifications are valid for three years in all 163 Euro-American countries and are issued as per the latest norms of standardization. Whilemany offline healthcare services such as hospitals and service providers have got ISO 9001:2015 and 27001:2013 certifications. This is for the first time that an online healthcare service provider has received ISO certifications. DocsApp is commitment towards bringing superlative and convenient diagnostic services virtually.

Over the years, DocsApp has taken several measures to ensure the safety and security of all the medical records of patients with the help of advanced technology and management procedures. Customer satisfaction and complaints resolution management certification boosts the trust of the customers in it further.

The ISO norms remain same for online and offline processes. The certification process works to identify and implement corrective actions to eliminate non conformance to the quality management standard. For the online processes, quality management, customer satisfaction and complaints handling becomes very important. All these certifications will definitely enhance DocsApp’s solid reputation in the market and further consolidate its position as the go-to app for all healthcare services.

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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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SAATHIYA: TO THE RESCUE OF ADOLESCENCE

InnoHEALTH Magazine — Wed, 12 Jul 2017 08:43:23 +0000

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SAATHIYA: To the rescue of adolescence
Dr. Avantika Batish is working as Director Strategy and Healthcare at International Health Emergency Learning and Preparedness. Also, guest faculty for MBA (HR) and MBA Healthcare Management at various B-Schools and is a soft skills trainer.

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India is home to 253 million adolescents which is largest in the world in terms of absolute numbers and when Reproductive, Maternal, Newbond and Child Health (RMNCH) programs were launched globally, India was the first country to add the ‘+A’ i.e. adolescent component to the RMNCH, making it today’s RMNCH+A program.

Under the Rashtriya Kishore Swasthya Karyakaram(RKSK) (2014) the Secretary, Health and Family Welfare recently launched the SAATHIYA Resource Kit including ‘SAATHIYA SALAH’ Mobile App for adolescents. RKSK identifies six strategic priorities for adolescents i.e. nutrition, sexual and reproductive health (SRH), non-communicable diseases (NCDs), substance misuse, injuries and violence (including gender-based violence) and mental health.

The most important component and driving force of RKSK program are its Peer Educators and this resource kit has been launched to enable them to communicate with the adolescents of their community.

The Peer Educators (Saathiyas) act as a catalyst for generating demand for the adolescent health services and imparting age appropriate knowledge on key adolescent health issues to their peer groups. In order to equip the Saathiyas in doing so Saathiya Resource Kits (including ‘Saathiya Salah’ Mobile App) have been launched. The kit will enable the 1.6 lakhs Peer Educators towards taking their job forward and answering all the queries in the minds of an adolescent in-spite of the plethora of media like Magazines, TV, internet etc.available.

The Resource Kit comprises
i) An Activity Book
ii) Bhranti-Kranti Game
iii) Question-Answer Book and
iv) Peer Educator Diary

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Also the mobile app ‘Saathiya Salah’ (downloadable from Google play-store) acts as a ready information source for the adolescents in case they are unable to interact with the Peer Educators.

The mobile app is also linked to another important piece of costeffective information platform of a toll-free SAATHIYA HELPLINE (1800-233-1250) which will act as an e-counselor. While the short films will be played by the Peer Educators at their group meetings, the activity book and games will bring about discussion and resolve adolescent queries.

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Artificial Intelligence Coming Big Way in Healthcare Sector

10 Latest Healthcare Innovations

1. Powerdot

2. Visit: An Artificial Intelligence Start-up

3. Snore Circle

4. Zipline: World’s Fastest Commercial Delivery Drone

5. Livehealth

6. Niramai: A Novel Breast Cancer Screening Solution

7. Hearing Fitness App

8. Lumenis M22 Optimal Pulse Technology – An Effective Solution To Treat Dry Eyes

9. Karma Healthcare

10. Haemophilia Care in India

Latest innovations in healthcare

Supermeat

Somnox – A sleep robot

Portable bionic hand

Babygogo

DocsApp RECEIVED ISO CERTIFICATIONS

DocsApp The First Online Healthcare Service Provider to Bag ISO Certifications

VISIT LAUNCH SWASTHA BHARAT M-HEALTH APP

SAATHIYA: TO THE RESCUE OF ADOLESCENCE

DocsApp
The First Online Healthcare Service Provider to Bag ISO Certifications