Need For A Robust ABDM Healthcare Network Enabling Cancer Care Without Walls By Manish Sharma @Msharmas

The idea of expecting a doctor/physician to be responsible for keeping a patient’s health records up to date throughout his/her care journey, is obviously not preferred these days. Neither is the practice scalable nor does it allow adoption and application of recent and new technologies.

In healthcare, information about a patient/citizen is created from the moment the citizen interacts with a hospital, clinical, etc or avails of a service online. Every subsequent activity adds recency, relevancy, context of care linkage to the citizen information in that hospital’s information system. The information is filled in by any hospital employee who encounters a patient, i.e., the hospital’s front desk staff/registration person, nurse, doctor, surgeon, anesthetist, pharmacist, pathologist, radiologist, radiation oncologist, surgical oncologist, cardiologist, and many more clinicians across the continuum of care of the citizens’ journey in that facility.

JOIN HL7 India FHIR Connectathon 2021 by HL7India Connectathon Organising Committee

Greetings!

HL7 India is pleased to invite you to the second edition of the FHIR Connectathon

HL7 is an independent, member-based organization actively encouraging the adoption of standards of healthcare information communication in India. HL7 India is the accredited International Affiliate of Health Level Seven International (HL7 International) for India. 

After a successful FHIR Connectathon in 2020, our team at HL7 India is proud to be hosting the second edition from 10th December to 12th December 2021. Sponsored by Karkinos Healthcare Pvt. Ltd. and AliveCor India Pvt. Ltd., HL7 is proud to receive support from NRCeS and HIMSS India for this edition of FHIR Connectathon 2021. 

Building a Purpose Driven Digital Oncology Platform to Deliver World Class Cancer Care by R. Venkataramanan, Founder CEO, @karkinoshealthcare

BACKGROUND

KARKINOS HEALTHCARE (KH) is desirous to build an end-to-end technology driven oncology focused managed healthcare platform where almost no person is deprived of care either by lack of access or by affordability.

What’s the cost of ignoring your employees’ emotional wellness to your organization? Puneet Manuja, co-Founder of YourDOST answers

What’s the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear the phrase ‘employee wellness’? Chances are you’re thinking of physical fitness, exercise, healthy eating, and prevention/management of lifestyle diseases like hypertension, diabetes, etc. But an essential component that we seem to lose sight of is employees’ emotional wellness.  Puneet Manuja, co-Founder and COO, YourDOST, in this post, highlights on how corporate employees’ mental health and emotional wellness has been affected and how nearly 36% of them suffer in silence with no one to turn to. In a fireside chat, Puneet discusses the company’s technology platform that offers stigma-free therapeutic solutions to create happier workplaces followed by an authored piece on the consequential impact of an employee’s wellness on an organization.

Health-tech startups focus on riveting children’s health screening programs through digital platforms

The onset of the Coronavirus pandemic has completely thrown school health programs out of gear. Lockdowns over the last 2 years have affected most school-based health programs. The silver lining here is that there were health-tech companies who had already forayed into the space of providing digitally-enabled care programs/platforms to school children. These platforms were scaled up gradually to take the screening camps completely online. This post discusses the effectiveness of school health programs and how health-tech companies like Trawello Healthcare are doing their part to ensure children’s health is prioritized.

The distinct feature of X-ray technology in COVID-19 diagnostics, by Navjot Singh, President – Medical Imaging, Trivitron Healthcare 

Imaging procedures are of great value in the COVID-19 pandemic when the question of assessment of suspected cases and determination of the course of the disease arises. While a multitude of radio diagnostic tools is employed, the role of X‑ray imaging in COVID-19 infection has distinct importance. This post by Navjot Singh, President – Medical Imaging, Trivitron Healthcare, touches upon the importance of X-ray imaging and technological advances.

These last mile telehealth enablers travail to deliver care despite digital infrastructure challenges

ISRO may have sown the seed of telemedicine in India, but it was the Coronavirus-caused pandemic that propelled the widespread adoption of telemedicine and made it an irrefutable need for the present and the future care delivery methods and one that could be exploited to achieve sustainable healthcare solutions for our country’s semi-urban and rural communities. Few organizations and startups mentioned here in this post have gone several extra miles with their efforts to enable telehealth in their own ways.

Things & Thinks XXIII

I am happy to bring my monthly newsletter to the HCitexpert Blog from this month onwards. In this edition of my newsletter, I reflect upon the learnings from the COVID innovations that proved to be marginally useful at the most, followed by regulatory changes being rolled out in EU with the advent of MDR. There is the usual round-up of interesting digital health news, Tweet of the Month and Chart of the Month.

Cloud computing services play a big part in addressing the needs of rural India’s fragmented healthcare ecosystem: Ashvini Danigond, ED & CEO, Manorama Infosolutions

Ashvini Danigond, Executive Director & CEO, Manorama Infosolutions is quite a revelation. Interacting with her means being enlightened on the varied aspects and nuances of new-age technology adoption in healthcare and its deployment in a patient-centric value-driven healthcare delivery system.

Exclusive Conversation: Deeksha Senguttuvan, Head of Digital Strategy, Kauvery Hospital, ascertains the power of predictive analytics in healthcare

It is a known fact that the adoption of technology in the health care sector has had a tremendously positive impact on medical processes. Artificial Intelligence-led predictive analytics, especially, is finding increasing applications in healthcare delivery and is largely explored to bring about positive patient outcomes.

Deeksha Senguttuvan, Head of Digital Strategy, Kauvery Hospitals, bets big on predictive analytics in healthcare. Deeksha, in this exclusive interaction with Anusha Ashwin, Consulting Editor, HCITExpert, shares her knowledge on the working of predictive analytics in hospital settings and how the technology plays a major role in tackling today’s pandemic health delivery needs.

Indian startups, DRDO, IISc exploit radiology AI for COVID-19 diagnosis and prognostication

Timely implementation of AI in desperate times like this has never been a miss by India’s digital technology specialists. From DRDO to some of India’s most prominent health tech startups, COVID-19 diagnosis based on radiology imaging augmented with AI-based clinical data has come to fore. This post highlights a few

How (not) to implement population health informatics applications! – by Nachiket Gudi, @GudiNachiket & Gaurav Pradhan, @GauravP_Tweets

A digital informatics application is as good as its underlying processes and people. Even if the application is built on a best-in-class digital architecture, if the underlying people and processes don’t have checks and balances in place, it is bound to fail. Learn more from this post on what the authors intend to convey on implementing best practices in health informatics.

Will pampering the Me and I kind of patient consumers with digital intervention tools be the new sustained healthcare delivery model?

Servicing the ‘Me and I’ kind of patients is in trend now. Patients want benefits of their customization and they are wanting ownership of the experience itself. This post highlights how patient consumerism has changed and how healthcare companies are now structuring new models to personalize care.

NEWER TREATMENT MODALITIES IN COVID-19: CAN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PREDICT? – By Dr. Paridhi Mathur @paridhi_dr

As a doctor who has treated the COVID patients, it makes me wonder whether the treatment modalities currently in use, continue to be used in future or there is an ocean of possibilities still unexplored. For this reason, I started to review articles more on the Use of Newer treatment Modalities like Immunomodulatorsin COVID, also can Artificial Intelligence (AI)help predict the future? Can AI help for evaluating the newer treatment modalities?

Time to address the shortcomings of digital health, says Preventive Cardiologist Dr. Pratiksha Gandhi, By Anusha Ashwin @Ashwin_anusha

“Preventive healthcare can only be successful with the support of digital technology interventions as this is the era of digital tracking for healthy behaviors, wearables, apps to monitor various chronic diseases,” says Preventive Cardiologist, Dr. Pratiksha Gandhi in a short Q&A with team HCITExpert. Read on to know more about Dr. Gandhi’s ideas and opinions about digital health applications in this post.

These techies work round the clock to centralize information on ICU beds, oxygen, and other resource availability on social media

Listed here are a few active enthusiastic techies or organizations working relentlessly in times of this crisis to help save lives. This list, though not exhaustive, highlights the major contributors who are collating and posting verified leads on social media, during the toughest times that India is made to face today, in saving lives and in overcoming the pandemic.

Health coaches, AI-backed risk assessment platforms dawn to address avoidable mortality and health inequities in India – by Anusha Ashwin, @ashwin_anusha

The United Nations finds India’s disease burden and its associated premature mortality figures quite acute. Combined attempts are being made by the Indian healthcare stakeholders to bring about large reductions in premature mortality and simultaneously address healthcare inequities. This blog highlights how digital healthcare interventions have a profound impact on tackling mortality and inequity, especially in healthcare resource-constrained locations.

Common Pass: A novel approach to leveraging privacy preserving digital tools for COVID19 Pandemic – by Rahul Konapur, @ Rahul Konapur; Nachiket Gudi, @GudiNachiket; Oommen John, @oommen_john

Countries across the globe have been devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Over the span of a year 2,320,497 lives have been lost and 106,125,682 infected as on date1. The scientific community across the globe are racing against time to administer safe and effective vaccines to save lives and livelihoods. As the pandemic spread across the globe, strict border closures and travel restrictions have brought the aviation industry to a standstill.

Tele-ICU: India steps up this viable model to triage and beat Intensivist shortage – by Anusha Ashwin, @ashwin_anusha

Last year, in the month of November, when the pandemic reached its intensity heights, Kerala Health Minister, K Shailaja, inaugurated her state’s first tele-ICU command center. Sponsored by the National Health Mission (NHM), this tele-ICU command center was established at the Government Beach Hospital. The launch of this center is notably a breakthrough and a significant revolution in health-tech innovation and an outstanding example of a public-private partnership.

Things & Thinks XVIII by Santosh Shevade, @santoshshevade

Things & Thinks XVIII

Curated Thoughts on Healthcare by Santosh Shevade

Healthcare Innovation | Outcomes Research | Implementation and Impact

aśvinau health – health at your fingertips by Venu Malyala, @dubugu

EDIT – As of 28th Nov 2020, NDHM issued a clarification that HealthID will be made an OpenIDC as envisioned below. The below was written prior to that

India’s National Digital Health Mission (NDHM) is great opportunity to adopt a truly digital health platform. A pandemic staring at us and with the evolution of policy, standards & technology, a vibrant developer community, a workforce that can be trained, upskilled to deliver the digital services the timing has never been this urgent !

The importance of public-private partnership for an outcome-oriented approach in diagnosing and treating breast cancer in India by Anusha Ashwin, @ashwin_anusha

Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women and 80% breast cancer incidents are recorded in women above 40 years of age. This is especially worrisome because the number could be an underestimate as currently only 15% of the population is covered by cancer registries.

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