The document summarizes a conference on universal healthcare and digital propulsion that included keynote speeches, panel discussions, and startup pitches. Over 170 people registered including 50 startups, 20 policymakers, and 90 organizations. Speakers discussed leveraging technology and data to improve healthcare access and quality in India. Panel topics included remote healthcare, patient lifecycle management, and adoption of electronic health records. Several startups also pitched solutions in areas like diagnostics, chronic disease management, and cybersecurity for healthcare. The event provided an opportunity for solution seekers and providers to network and discuss potential engagements.

1. Universal Healthcare- Digital Propulsion 30th
April 2019 at Shangri La’s Eros Hotel- Delhi
Universal Healthcare- Digital Propulsion
30th
April 2019 at Shangri La’s Eros Hotel- Delhi
Event Report
170 Registrations|50 Start-ups|20 Policy makers|90 Organizations
8 innovative start-up pitches|7 Demo booths
Inaugural session
The 5th
Lifesciences & Healthcare Innovation Forum got off to a rousing start, with
inspiring and informative keynotes from luminaries across the spectrum of health,
technology and policy, on the growing impact of digital propulsion in healthcare today.
Welcoming the guests, Sanjeev Malhotra, CEO of the NASSCOM Center of
Excellence stressed on the need for a comprehensive healthcare ecosystem, by bringing
together the country’s leading hospitals, medical associations, healthcare providers and
innovators with policymakers to decide the future of the industry.
Debjani Ghosh, President, NASSCOM elucidated on India’s role as a leader in data
collection and mining and stressed on the need to harness this data for a constructive
purpose. Combining this transformational power of technology with verticals like
healthcare will be a powerful synergy, With India being the second largest health tech
ecosystem in the world, the next step in accelerating the industry would be to make
healthcare accessible to all using technology.
J Satyanarayana, former chairman, UIDAI emphasized on the need for universal health
coverage, and with new elements of technology making a foray, various aspects of patient
privacy and security also need to be taken care of adequately. Based on the current scenario,
he suggested an ‘enterprise-like’ approach with a federated architecture, including database
interoperability, maintaining basic data of patients and diseases and most importantly, an
architecture that brings it all together.

2. Dileep Mangsuli, CTO, Wipro GE Healthcare touched upon the need for preventive
healthcare, and that there is a significant skill gap in managing healthcare challenges. He
stressed upon the creation of a health stack for which data integration is needed and urged the
industry to also consider affordability of healthcare services for everyone.
Dr Indu Bhushan, CEO of Ayushman Bharat provided the example of the success of the
healthcare scheme Ayushman Bharat (PM-JAY), specifically elaborating on the role of
technology in extending the reach of this expansive scheme to every corner of the country. In
seven months of launching, Ayushman Bharat has already touched the lives of 3.2 crore people,
and the next phase of implementation will witness a significant role played by technology.
Ajay Sawhney, secretary, MeitY spoke about extending the expertise of IT and electronics
deep into major industry sectors like healthcare. This will ensure reach far and wide, and help
harness vast amounts of data and insights about India’s healthcare landscape. He also
emphasized on the need for the National Health Stack, as it will create a tremendous scope for
innovation in the country.
Pramod Bhasin, founder, Genpact brought the inaugural session to a close with remarks on
the extent of healthcare challenges in the world but technology is rapidly solving multiple
challenges. Now, the time is ripe for extracting analytics from the existing data, and work with
multiple stakeholders in the healthcare domain.
Panel Discussion 1- Home and Remote Health care – Digital Intervention
Moderated by – Mr. Suresh Kumar, CTO Wipro GE Healthcare Clinical Operations
Panellists: Mr. Sameer Mehta (COO&MD, Mehta Hospitals), Mr. Nilesh Jain (Co-
founder, Clinivantage),
Dr. Raghuram Mallaiah (Director Neonatology, Fortis la femme), Dr.Dhruv Joshi (Co-
Founder, Cloudphysician)
The panel discussion on Home and Remote Heath care- Digital Intervention moderated
by Mr. Suresh Kumar, CTO GE Healthcare- Clinical operations, captures an interactive
and enthralling discussion on the challenges, issues and the merits of the remote
healthcare and the health ecosystem in India.The major advantages of healthcare in
India is the use of cutting-edge medical equipment which enhances patient outcomes
and the services are delivered at a fraction of cost as compared to other countries. India
is also a hub of super speciality hospitals with highly skilled doctors and paramedical
staff. This plays a pivotal role for exponential growth of medical tourism and research in
India.

3. Dr. Raghuram Mallaiah heading the Neonatology department points out that they have set up
NICUs across the country, but they do lag in manpower. An overwhelming response curated by
the panellists, focussedon the major challenges faced in the successful implementation of
remote care. There is a dearth in the infrastructure, and less money for investments and hence
the healthcare industry in tier 2 and tier 3 cities is growing at a slow rate. The staff and the
nurses are poorly trained and the hospital in these cities lack experts like radiologists,
paediatrician, paramedical staff and other residential doctors. Also, the disparate data that is
generated by the services and devices, should be handled effectively. The solutions that were
discussed were establishment of a command centre and a business model in the form of hub
and spokes. The solution should cater to the problem statement. The workflow should adapt the
technology and not the other way around. There should also be a clinical decision support
software which integrates the medical device data, patient records and should be able to predict
critical problems.
Sponsor Session- Google Cloud Platform for Healthcare and LifeSciences
Mr.Animesh Saraf (Regional Lead, Google Cloud Platform)
Animesh talked about data being the key element in bringing the whole ecosystem
together. A 360-degree view of the patient helps one understand challenges &
determining the course of treatment. Currently, data collection is disparate and must
follow compatibility – the ultimate motive of Google is to organise this information and
make it accessible and useful for everyone. He further delegates the importance of
security of this information and its integration to legacy systems in a healthcare
organization, and talked about a healthcare API designed by Google to inject the
disparate sources of data and maintain interoperability. He also talks about machine
learning algorithms and other predictive data modelling paradigms that can help in
speech to text conversion and multilingual voice recognition for instant digitization of
medical records. He spoke about a trained model in diabetic retinopathy to detect a
human eye with severe damage. He mentioned about Verily, a Google spin-off that
focuses on factors in affecting a person’s health based on his vital parameters.
Panel discussion 2- Digital Intervention in Patient Lifecycle Management
Moderated By: Sumit Puri, CIO, Max Health
Panelists: Rajiv Sikka (CIO, Medanta), Dr Sachin Malhotra (Tech Care 4 All)
Dr Deepak Agrawal(Professor – Neurosurgery & Gamma Knife, AIIMS), Ashish Gupta
(CEO, DocPrime)

4. Sumit Puri initiated the session by touching upon four important aspects in patient life cycle
management – patient safety, customer convenience, cost and revenue management. The
panelists elucidated examples from their professional journeys that resonated with the theme of
the panel. Rajiv Sikka talked about the need to digitize patient records to a single device or
portal. He talked about how Medanta introducing the booking of appointments online, with pre-
payment for online slots. This was a successful model, with almost all patients following the
model diligently. Ashish Gupta stated that PolicyBazaar approached every insurer on their
platform with customized choices on healthcare insurance plans. He believes this is why
insurance is making a re-entry – for there is plenty of customer data available to allow
personalized options be made. Dr Agarwal spoke about the success of a single window exit
counter in OPD – every patient has to pass through this window to enter or leave the OPD, and
has to get his OPD card scanned based on which data is collected and actions taken. In a
hospital the size of AIIMS which sees nearly three million patients each year in OPD, this
system has reduced wait time from 8 hours to 3 hours. He stressed on the need for simple
interventions that can go a long way in accelerating process efficiency. For Sachin Gupta, it was
a personal experience which revealed the stark difference between planned digital interventions
and ground realities in a hospital. Smaller, targeted outreach activities with companies
promoting health is one way to create an impact. Eventually, it is about catering to a patient, and
understanding him as a composite entity, and applying frameworks accordingly.
Panel discussion 3- Electronic Health Records- Roadmap for Adoption
Moderated By: Mr. Siva Padmanabhan (MD of AstraZeneca India Pvt. Ltd.)
Panelists: Arvind Sivaramakrishnan (CIO, Apollo Hospitals), Mr. Siddhanth Jena (Co-
founder, Janacare),
Mr. Praveen Srivastava (Joint Director, C-DAC Noida), Mr Trilok Chandra (Head of E-
Governance, MeitY)
Mr.Santosh Kr Mishra (CEO, Sansys)
The panel was moderated by Mr. Siva Padmanabhan, MD AstraZeneca India Private
Limited and focuses on the need for adoption of Electronic Health Records and the
issues in the process. Any Electronic Health Record is the foundation of the Healthcare
industry and it plays a major role in bringing the merits to every player in the ecosystem.
It predicts how the healthcare organisations are performing across the value chain.
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has embarked on the journey to implement EHR
in the year 2013 and has witnessed a lot of push for HIS to accept EHR. The driver of
EHR, implementation is the long continuum care of the patients in any hospital chain.

5. Lab investigation reports, x-ray reports and demography generate lots of data load that
has to be processed efficiently to get the key valuable insights and define the procedure
accordingly. Also, speech to text conversation algorithms plays a vital role in aiding in
the doctor’s process and is the need of the hour.As the organisation gets larger, the
healthcare delivery system gets complicated and we need a specifically designed
system in place to handle all the complicated tasks effectively and guide the people.
The same system should be compatible, user friendly, easily portable and in compliance
with the regulatory rules. Any healthcare information systems should be compatible with
workflow of the organization and the documents should be in structured formats. The
panel also brainstormed around the criterion for a successful implementation of the
Electronic Health records which are enlisted below.
 The initiative should be started by public and private hospital chain on a step by step note
 The software and the technology should understand the business need and the client need.
 Implementation of EMR should follow interoperability standards and the nomenclature
standards
 The solution should map to the workflow
 The immediate need of the hour is to focus on the reskilling of the cohort and the
accessibility of the data.
Start-up Pitches
Shubhaarogya (Koti Venkat Rao)- KotiVenkat Rao,the founder of Shubhaarogya talked
about providing quality and affordable healthcare services in India. Subhaarogya is
healthcare delivery organization addressing the accessibility challenges in the rural
India. They provide digital diagnostics powered by PHFI, and have built aggregation
platform and telemedicine platform to set up e-clinics.
Zeolr Technologies(Roshit Gopinath)- The innovative start-up led by Roshit Gopinath caters
to the problem of chronic lung disease. The solution addresses by involving real time analysis
and insights on report generation for asthma. RespirON, a product of Zeolr is an intelligent
asthma and COPD management system.
Nemocare Wellness Pvt Ltd.(Manoj Sankar)- Operating in the area of mother and child care,
the solution provided by Manoj Sankar deals with a wearable on the new born to monitor the
vitals to detect Apnoea hypothermia and other distress conditions.

6. Onward Assist(DineshKoka)- Onward Assist is the state-of-the-art AI platform aiding
clinicians to help make better decisions for diagnostics and oncology involving multi
model data analytics.Oncologists can now leverage tools for accurate segmentation of
risks in the patient lifecycle.
ChironX (Sambodhi)-ChironX builds intelligent software using AI and deep learning to screen
and diagnose diseases of eye, chest including diabetic retinopathy and tuberculosis. It embeds
medical diagnostic for screening of human retina and interprets the disease according to the
pattern.
Colortokens(Deepak Kaul)-Working in the field of cybersecurity, Colortokens implements the
concept of Zero-Trust Architecture that makes detection more reliable and the response more
effective. The process provides efficient security, speeds up detection of threat and the
associated response and primarily focuses on proactive security.
Fit Galaxy(Rajat Sawhaney, Esha Sawhaney)- An online fitness company helping users get fit
with guidance by nutritionists and fitness coaches along with customised nutrition, exercise and
lifestyle plans. It focuses on fat loss, muscle gain and preventing lifestyle diseases.
Docvita (Anmol Arora)-Voice enabled AI assistant to manage patient visits and follow-ups in
the hospitals and clinics. It helps the doctors in drafting patient prescriptions on doctor
instructions. It also assists patients with alerts, reminders on medication in-take and online
consultation
The workshop session concluded with the networking session. The solution seekers and
solutions providers had an interactive networking opportunity to explore the use cases in the
healthcare industry and the possibilities of engaging with each other.
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