Leading the Health-tech Startup Pack
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by Sumeet Kad
3y ago
The healthcare sector in India is one of the fastest growing sectors and has exhibited significant growth in the last 18 months. By 2023, the healthcare market will potentially be worth of $370 billion, promising returns up to 35-40% and is expected to generate 40 million jobs by 2030. According to Traxcn data, in 2018 India’s investments in health-tech reached a whopping $571 million. Technologies like machine-learning, robotic surgery, telemedicine, nanotech, IoT, AI, robotics, 3D printing as just a few examples that have applications of paramount importance in the healthcare industry. The p ..read more
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Patient Safety as a Global Health Priority
New Age Healthcare
by Editor
3y ago
Globally, Sept 17 is celebrated as the ‘Patient Safety Day’ and was established in 2019 by WHO to attain a more focused global attention on the issue of patient safety. As per WHO, at least 5 patients die per minute resulting from unsafe care and four out of every 10 patients are harmed during primary and ambulatory healthcare. These deaths can be simply avoided by a stronger commitment to ensure safe healthcare facilities for all and adopting methods for implementing these safe practices. The personal, social and economic impact of patient harm due to these unsafe practices are immense and le ..read more
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Contact Tracing Apps: Privacy Implications and Trade-offs
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by Sumeet Kad
3y ago
This article was published on June 7, 2020 in the Economic Times ET Health: https://bit.ly/3gZDFzf In the absence of a veritable vaccine for coronavirus, countries around the globe have turned to contact tracing technology to limit the spread of the contagion, assist health bodies track individual and subsequent community exposure, and to relax lockdown restrictions. There is a deluge of contact tracing mobile apps and in the last two months, around 45 such apps have been launched worldwide in over 25 countries, emphasizing the critical significance of digital contact tracing. Albeit proven to ..read more
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Aarogya Setu App: Life-Saving or Privacy Invasion
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by Editor
3y ago
In the continuing combat against the existing pandemic, contact tracing apps are proving to be an effective tool helping to limit the spread of the contagion. Governments and health bodies across the globe have been launching such apps to assist health officials track down individual and community exposure. So far, around 45 covid-19 contact-tracing apps have been launched worldwide in over 25 countries. The surge of such apps has also invited significant controversies around the privacy infringements of citizens and data security, questioning the cyber-hygiene practices that are being adopted ..read more
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Future of AI in Healthcare in India: Opportunities and Challenges
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by Editor
3y ago
Technology has certainly revolutionised the way health care is provided and received across the globe. Amongst the various available ‘new age’ tech solutions, Artificial intelligence is at the forefront and is also the most talked about in media and board rooms. Plethora of use cases are available where implementation of AI in healthcare has resulted in multifold of benefits in areas such as drug discovery, personalised care for chronic diseases, predictive healthcare diagnosis, automation of medical tests, efficient healthcare delivery and detecting abnormalities through medical images. The c ..read more
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Pandemic’s Effect on Care of Non-Coronavirus Patients
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by Editor
3y ago
In the last week of April 2020, a septuagenarian in the state of J&K, India who was a renal dialysis patient for 2 years, was asked to get his next round of dialysis from a private nursing home as the hospital where he normally went for treatment refused the dialysis procedure since the entire hospital was converted into a COVID care center. The nursing home neither had the apt infrastructure nor the skilled personnel to handle any kind of complications that is common during a dialysis. Unfortunately, the patient died in less than a week. Another dialysis patient in Mumbai had to wait for ..read more
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AI and Data Analytics to Combat Health Pandemic
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by Sumeet Kad
3y ago
This article was published on Apr 25 in ExpressHealthcare (arm of Indian Express): https://bit.ly/3bCFDmd On Feb 17, 31st case of coronavirus surfaced in Daegu, South Korea. On outlining the tracks of this ‘Patient 31’, public health official ascertained that in the last ten days the patient had attended two worship services with over 1000 people. Within a week, a 30-fold increase occurred in the nation’s number of cases. Since then, extensive use of analytics and data science has been central to South Korea’s approach in successfully ‘flattening the curve’. South Korean government has been tr ..read more
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Coronavirus Outbreak: Myths vs Facts
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by Editor
3y ago
The world is grappling with the stark implications stemming out of the uncontrolled coronavirus pandemic. Healthcare infrastructure is under severe stress. Precious lives are being lost in large numbers (over 140k fatalities so far). Economic fragility is peaking, unemployment rate is mounting, and supply chain breakdown is hurting millions across the globe. With no sign of cure or vaccine being available in foreseeable future, nations are deploying strict and discrete measures to arrest the impact of this unprecedented crisis. In this digital age, populations are benefitting from the constant ..read more
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Searching: The COVID-19 Killer
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by Sumeet Kad
3y ago
As countries are implementing extreme measures to arrest the growing concerns due to COVID-19, all eyes are collectively looking in hope for an elixir – a viable vaccine. Various research organizations, government institutions, academia and pharma giants across the globe are working and collaborating at an unprecedented pace to formulate a vaccine. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there are already two clinical trials underway and more than 60 vaccine candidates in pre-clinical evaluation.  On an average, 10.7 years are taken from the pre-clinical stage for ..read more
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Digital Technology Response to Covid-19
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by Editor
3y ago
As the global population is marred by the pandemic coronavirus outbreak, a flurry of websites, dashboards, online services and apps related to COVID-19 are being encountered across the globe. These tools developed by tech giants, start-ups, govt bodies, and healthcare organisations provide relevant information about the symptoms, prevention methods, screening steps, tracking of virus spread and measures to limit the risk to exposure. However, it is important for us to be aware of the most authentic ones to be visited. Dashboards & Webpages: Microsoft has launched a new interactive das ..read more
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