As many as 815 students were presented degrees of commendation at the event. On digitisation and its role in delivering cutting-edge healthcare, the chief minister exhorted the university authority to take steps for digital application.
Commenting on the need for a global institutional framework to realign the existing digital health efforts, Dr Bharati Pravin Pawar, Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare informed that the focus should shift to implementation of tools across the world, and look for bridging the digital divide through a mission mode approach for universalization of digital health.
The Eka Care platform can be customised by the doctor according to their speciality, which would make their clinical practice easier to manage and operate. With Eka Care, doctors can manage their appointments, digital prescription, billing, lab and pharmacy services, patients’ medical records, and their digital presence.
Remote patient monitoring devices can effectively track ECGs, oxygen saturation, body temperature, respiration rate, and activity among other vitals. This technology offers real-time analysis using artificial intelligence, which means that it allows early detection during the monitoring period in the event of interim cardiac rhythm abnormalities.
IIT Guwahati is progressively participating in multiple initiatives to contribute in improving the health sector in the Northeast region.
While the pandemic has spotlighted the role of online pharmacies as the future of the Indian healthcare system, the allocation of Rs 2,83,846 lakh crore by the government during the Union Budget 2021 will be pivotal in revolutionising the sector.
Since time immemorial, the insurance industry has been operating on a model that falls short in terms of customer engagement and interaction. This is especially true for the health insurance space, where the customer touchpoints lie with the hospitals offering insurance as opposed to the insurers themselves. In such a case, engagement only occurs when an insurance claim has to be made or when a case of hospitalization or a physician visit occurs.
In recent years tech giants are pushing a whole new gamut of digital health applications for monitoring heart rates, ECG, blood oxygenation, blood pressure, pulse rate and blood sugar levels.
According to the EY-IPA study, 80% of surveyed doctors are being consulted using informal means of communication such as audio, video, texts on various messaging apps.
This pandemic has made us realize that as stakeholders, the hospitals, med-tech companies, pharma, IT, the medical academia and nursing councils have to join hands, chalk out a plan and work towards it collectively. Collaboration is the way forward.
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