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Thought leaders’ conversation on Cyber Security for Healthcare

InnoHEALTH Magazine — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 10:51:21 +0000

Thought leaders conversation on
PROMOTING CYBER SECURITY IN HEALTHCARE

Twenty-seven healthcare leaders joined the conversation on cyber security issues in the health sector. The program was opened by Dr V K Singh, MD InnovatioCuris with three eminent panelists, Dr Arvind Lal, Dr Harish Pillai and Lt Gen Dr. Rajesh Pant. Dr Sandeep Bhalla, Director (Training) PHFI and Mr Sachin Gaur, Director, InnovatioCuris presented the course curriculum and invited feedback and inputs from the experts on the initiative. Below is a short summary of the expert opinion on the topic.

Dr Arvind Lal, MD, Lal Path Labs said, “We live in an Interconnected age. He mentioned three important points, the threat of ransomware is experienced regularly by the health sector. Second point was about patient data. How that the data is being traded in the black market. With Digital India enabling healthcare at last mile the threat to patient data is more real. The third issue is the connected healthcare, in terms of the medical devices and the healthcare would remain as the prime target for hackers. Ultimately it comes down to people and processes to keep this patient data absolutely secure. A comprehensive security awareness program can help healthcare facilities combat many of the security concerns discussed today. With the right resources and support from leadership security awareness training can teach the facility staff how to identify, how to avoid and how to report the hacking attack takes place.“

Dr Harish Pillai, Group CEO, Aster DM Healthcare, shared his viewpoints, an extract of that is as follows: “COVID has led to healthcare providers jump to the bandwagon of telehealth without due diligence or due process in selection of the vendor, hardware and other components. But it is a change whose time has come. He seconded the view point of Dr Arvind Lal on patient data protection. Dr Pillai foresees that a lawsuit on breach of data privacy might open eyes of people in future, if the topic is not taken seriously. He highlighted cyber security issues arising in telemedicine, medical devices, home care and in general with the adoption of digital health. He suggested having mission mode task force to take up the issues of cyber security is need of the hour. The training program on cyber security as per him will go long way in safeguarding the health sector.”

Lt Gen Rajesh Pant, National Cyber Security Coordinator, India, responded to both the panelists by saying that data security topic is very important and the pending bill of Personal Data Protection Act in the parliament is going to be a big step in this direction providing a regulatory framework for improved security of citizen’s data. Also, the mission task force headed by him has produced the national cyber strategy this year. Health sector has been neglected as per him in past but COVID-19 has shown us how every component of economy is dependent on health sector. COVID-19 has also created an atmosphere of fear and the uncertainty which is breeding ground for cyber crime.

He shared specific advice to healthcare providers which is as follows:

To have a dedicated Chief Information Security Officer, with two separate cells for IT and other on cyber security. So, that implementation and testing is not done by the same people.
Allocate budget for cyber security, which is 10% of the IT budget

He concluded with three hard facts:

Vulnerabilities will continue to exist
Cyber-attacks will continue to happen
Attribution of these attacks will be difficult

Hence, similar to physical hygiene for COVID-19, cyber hygiene also gets utmost importance for the health sector! Cyber hygiene as per him covers a variety of measures like stronger passwords to a good cyber security policy in an organisation.

Apart from the panelists, valuable inputs were added by thoughtleaders and dignitaries from NHSRC, NABH, IIM, State governments, PSU’s, corporate hospitals.

Guest list

S.no	Name	Designation and Organisation
1	Hony Brig Dr. Arvind Lal	Chairman and Managing Director of Dr. Lal Path Labs
2	Lt. Gen. (Dr.) Rajesh Pant	National Cyber security coordinator, Government of India
3	Dr. Harsh Pillai	Group CEO, Aster DM healthcare
4	Mr. Munender Soperna	CIO, Dr. Lal Path Labs
5	Ms. Rashmi Pimple	Director, Life sciences, Research & Innovation Circle Hydrabad (RICH)
6	Col. Satyendra Verma	Director, Xscale
7	Dr. Partha Dey	Independent Consultant
8	Dr. J.N. Srivastava	Advisor, Quality improvement, NHSRC
9	Dr. Sangeeta Sharma	Professor & Head of Neuropsychopharmacology, IHBAS
10	Mr. Satish Kumar Kapoor	Chief Quality officer, Indraprastha Apollo hospitals
11	Dr. Sanjeev Kumar Singh	CMS, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences Kochi
12	Dr. Suneela garg	Director Professor HAG, Ex Head (CM) Sub Dean, MAMC& Head Community Medicine, FMS
13	Dr. B.K Behera	Senior Specialist, Medicine, Corporate Medical Cell ,NTPC Ltd
14	Dr. Rajesh Chandwani	Faculty, Human Resource Management Area Chairperson, Centre for Management of Health Services (CMHS) Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
15	Dr. Atul Mohan Kochhar	CEO, National Accreditation Board for Hospitals & Healthcare Providers (NABH)
16	Dr. Kamla Fartyal	General Manager(Medical Services), NHPC
17	Dr. Kartik Shah	State Quality assurance officer, Government of Gujarat
18	Dr. Sandeep Bhalla	Director (Training), Training division, PHFI
19	Dr. Anuradha Aggarwal Monga	Program manager, Training division, PHFI
20	Dr. Vasudha Kalra Sharma	Program Coordinator, Training division, PHFI
21	Surgeon R Admiral Dr. V K Singh	MD, InnovatioCuris
22	Mr. Sachin Gaur	Director, InnovatioCuris
23	Dr. Pushkar Kumar	Senior Public Health Specialist, Training division, PHFI
24	Mr. Prashant Singh	Director, Coordination and Strategy Development, PHFI
25	Mr. Clarion	InnovatioCuris
27	Mr. Dhruv Singh	InnovatioCuris

Report by Sachin Gaur, InnovatioCuris

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Study: Awareness about Hypertension Very Low

InnoHEALTH Magazine — Wed, 24 Jul 2019 10:45:05 +0000

Hypertension, high blood pressure or BP, call it by any name; is a common condition which is caused by the force of blood against the artery walls.

A new study has highlighted the need for an intensive effort to improve upon hypertension awareness, care and control in the country especially for those in the most productive age group of 15–49 years, with emphasis on households with lower-income levels and those living in rural areas.

The study, which was based on the data collected under the National Health and Family Survey 2015–16 has found that efforts to tackle hypertension are lacking in all aspects, from screening for the condition and providing a diagnosis to the level of treatment given to the patients.

The data, for instance, showed that only three out of four people, who were found to have hypertension during the survey, had ever been checked for blood pressure earlier and only 45 percent of the hypertensive patients identified during the survey already knew that they suffered from blood pressure problem. Further, less than one in seven (13 percent) reported that they were under hypertensive medication and less than one in 10 (8 percent) had their blood pressure under control.

Significantly, contrary to general expectations, women had better control over their blood pressure than men. The analysis revealed that while 10.9 percent of hypertensive women were taking their medicine and had normal blood pressure; on the contrary, only 5.3 percent of hypertensive men did so.

The National Health and Family Welfare Survey had covered 731,864 individuals from twenty-nine states and seven union territories.

“Detection of hypertension is straightforward, treatments are simple yet effective, and hence hypertension can be easily controlled. However, India does not perform well in any of the measures of detection, treatment and control,” said Dr. Dorairaj Prabhakaran, Vice President, Research and Policy at PHFI and one of the authors of the study. “The new National Health Mission through the health and wellness clinics has the potential to address the issue.”

Dr. Lindsay Jaacks, another member of the research team, said, “we need demand-side interventions to raise awareness in India that hypertension is relatively easy and cheap to treat, and that keeping it under control can have huge benefits in terms of preventing heart attacks and stroke.”

Credits: India Science Wire

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Press Release: InnoHEALTH 2017

InnoHEALTH Magazine — Sat, 16 Sep 2017 04:45:03 +0000

Press Release: InnoHEALTH Conference 2017, 18-19 September, New Delhi, www.innohealth.in
The two-day international conference “InnoHEALTH 2017” will take place in New Delhi, India on 18^th and 19^th September 2017 at ShangriLa’s Eros Hotel. It is an annual feature and is second in the series.
InnoHEALTH 2017 organizers InnovatioCuris and Indiattitude are working with a vision of bringing down the healthcare delivery cost yet maintaining the quality. InnoHEALTH 2017 is 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 is also providing a platform for Indian innovators to pitch their innovations and compete for a Young Innovators Award.
The conference will see around 400 people in two days including 60 renowned speakers from all over the world. The CEO of NITI Aayog, Ambassadors of Foreign missions in India, DG Armed Forces Medical services and Prof Anil Gupta known for his work on innovations would attend and share their views. The conference is hosting a B2B meeting on 18^th September to connect Indian stakeholders with a visiting European Union Delegation pertaining to innovative health sector companies. The companies are selected through a competitive program with a focus on cost effective innovations for Indian market.
The conference is also joined by many partners such as Estonia as a country partner, NHSRC representing MoHFW, Government of India, Public Health Foundation of India, CAHO as the association of accredited hospitals of India, AHPI representing more than 10,000 private healthcare providers. IAMI bringing the clinicians involved in healthcare analytics, ScanBalt Forum bringing the outreach to more than 22,000 professionals in 11 European countries and many others.