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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InnoHEALTH Volume 1 Issue 1 (July to September 2016) – https://goo.gl/iWAwN2
InnoHEALTH Volume 1 Issue 2 (October to December 2016) – https://goo.gl/4GGMJz
InnoHEALTH Volume 2 Issue 1 (January to March 2017) – https://goo.gl/DEyKnw
InnoHEALTH Volume 2 Issue 2 (April to June 2017) – https://goo.gl/Nv3eev
InnoHEALTH Volume 2 Issue 3 (July to September 2017) – https://goo.gl/MCVjd6
InnoHEALTH Volume 2 Issue 4 (October to December 2017) – http://amzn.to/2B2UMLw
InnoHEALTH Volume 3 Issue 1 (January to March 2018) – https://goo.gl/fksdQx

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LESSONS FROM THE VILLAGES OF NAGALAND

InnoHEALTH Magazine — Fri, 21 Apr 2017 06:59:26 +0000

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Lessons from the villages of Nagaland

Sachin Gaur is director operations at InnovatioCuris. He is interested in topics of mHealth and Cyber Security. Have deep expertise in digital marketing , mobile application development in domains like health and education. Have multiple patents granted.

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Last November 2016, I got an opportunity to walk in the remote villages of Nagaland. The journey was organized by Prof Anil Gupta from IIM Ahmedabad, India. Prof Anil has been doing Shodh Yatra for last 19 years (a walk of approximately 150 kms to 200 kms to scout grass root innovators and cross-pollinate ideas). The hindi meaning of ‘Shodh’ is to research and ‘Yatra’ is journey. As, we in IC are constantly looking for inspiration and innovations, being part of the Shodh Yatra was an excellent opportunity to meet some innovators and see the country with a different point of view. A point of view which beliefs in the grassroot innovations, celebrating them and spreading them.

Essentially speaking the Yatra takes you through many small villages and in each village you repeat 4-5 activities. Celebrating the elders of the village and document the traditional learnings by asking questions. Organizing Idea and Bio Diversity competitions among young children and students. Also, engaging the village community and sharing innovations from other parts of the villages. One of the ways to put the experience of Shodh Yatra is in Prof Gupta’s word: “During the Yatra we can learn from four teachers: the teacher in nature, teachers within, teachers among peers and the teacher among common people”.

We met people who were 100 plus years old and villages of Nagaland were rich in biodiversity and very clean. All, my stereotypes were broken about remote and inaccessible parts of the country in a good way. The superiority of traditional knowledge in terms of knowing the medicinal use of plants by the communities was amazing. If such a task is taken up by communities to document traditional knowledge countrywide and further look at it through scientific methods. It can open up new avenues for the marginalized communities in terms of commercialization of traditional plants and medicine and also preserving the oral and tacit knowledge of the communities.

Most of us who live in cities have become distant from nature and the understanding of it. Such visits not just give you new eyes to look at what nature can offer us, but also the sense of community from the villagers, who are so giving in their nature. Some of them are constantly innovating and we need structures and methods to spread the good work.

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