Pune, Oct, 03, 2016 : While progress is being made in tele medicine , medicine supply , telehealth and online consultation is being made it is necessary to have an Integrated Health Information Platform is the need of the hour said Dr Suptendranath Sarbadhikari , Project Director, Centre for Health Informatics, National Health Portal, Govt. of India .He was speaking at the first “National Consultation on Innovations in Digital Health Ecosystem and Interoperability” organised by MIT School of Telecom Management (MITSOT) and eHealth Card Personal Health Record Systemin association with Persistent Systems and Tech M
ahindra The conference included Healthcare Start-Ups and Case Study presentations, Panel Discussions focusing on“Future of Digital Healthcare”and most interestingly “Wearable Technology – Transforming Today’s Healthcare”. Dr. Rajesh Gokhale,Director, CSIR – Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology, Govt. of India are the Guests of Honour, Chief Guest Dr Vijay Bhatkar , Prof Dr Vishwanath Karad President MAEER’s MIT , Dr Milind Pande Project Director MITSOT , Prakash Loharkar, Managing Director, NCORD HEalth Card LLP, Dr. ArunJamkar, Advisor, eHealth Card Personal Health Record System and Abhay Jere , Associate VP Life Sciences Persistant Systems were present on the ocassion . An e book collated by students of MITSOT was released on this occassion.
Dr Suptendranath said that E Health and Digital Health will be able to address the challenges of Healthcare in India . A National Health Strategy is required and we are working in that direction .
Dr Rajesh Gokhale said that rural healthcare still posses enormous challenge . 66% of the rural population still has no access to critical healthcare , while 31% have to walk more than 30 kms for health services . Preventable and curable diseases still dominate the morbidity pattern which include diseases like typhoid , measles and diarrhea . We have set up telemedicine centres backed by data centres in 170 rural location in association with HP , wherein we get live information about the patients . The centres are in the form of shipping containers .
Dr Arun Jamkar said that cheaper healthcare will be possible with digital health solutions , more and more health apps , equipments and devices . Internet of things will be worth 200 billion dollars by 2020 and one fourth of that would be related to healthcare.
Chief Guest Vijay Bhatkar said that digital healthcare can address many challenges . It is therefor necessary that engineering students learn biological systems .
Dr Milind Pande gave the welcome address while Nilesh Kandalgaonkar Designated Partner NCORD Health Card LLP proposed the vote of thanks
