A presentation made to clinical pharmacology students highlighting recent developments, challenges and advances made. Gives a brief glimpse into different dynamics of developed and developing world.

1. Trends & Developments
In Healthcare
Dr.Harsha Doddihal,
Oncologist
Co-Founder & CEO –Prana Healthcare Enablers
Chief Scientific Officer- D Cube Analytics
Medical Director- Medsurge

2. What is the most important thing?
Doctor, Nurses,
Pharmacist
Medicines
Technology
It is
Kindness,
Compassion,
Love
Empathy

3. Have we made progress?
● Average Lifespan at Independence-
● Average Life Span Today-
29
69
Progress is not just extending life span but improving “Quality of Life”
Health is a state of complete physical, mental
and social well-being and not merely the
absence of disease or infirmity.

4. Where did the progress come from?
● Reduction in infant mortality rate
● Vaccines, better hygiene, better nutrition
● New drugs, technology

5. What are present challenges?
Patient
Doctor
Government
Payer
Hospitals
Ballooning Cost, Lost in Maze,
Lifestyle
Information overload, EBM, Cost,
QOL,
Universal health coverage,
insurance, cost
Reimbursing the right technology
Lean operations, EMR, Technology
Redundancy,
Depends on the stakeholder

6. Challenges For Pharmaceutical
Industry

7. What have we done and what are we going
to do ?

9. Pharmaceutical Innovations
● Pegylated?
● Nanoparticle
● ADC
Vaccines
Chemicals
Monoclonal Antibodies
Small Molecules
Pro-drugs
Biologicals

10. Health care is
getting redefined

11. 3D Printed Biomaterials & Drugs

12. 3D Printed Drugs

13. 3D Printed Drugs

14. 3D Printed Drugs

15. 3D Printed Drugs
www.croninlab.com

16. Adherence Control
Pill Bottles Which Change Color
SMS/Missed Call
Digestible sensor

17. Artificial Intelligence In Medical Decision
Support

18. Artificial Organs

19. Augmented Reality
https://www.in.tum.de/en/research/research-highlights/augmented-reality-in-medicine.
html

20. Digestible, Embedded, Wearable Sensors
● Proteus Digital Health
● Sano
● Equivital

21. DIY Biotechnology
● OpenPCR
● Centifuge
● Genetic tinkering?
Hacked together: A home-built thermal cycling instrument made by Cathal Garvey from a coffee can
and heat gun cost less than $80. It is used to copy DNA molecules. Many commercial versions cost
more than $1,000.

22. Home Diagnostics
● Onstar
● Nanobiosysm
● Alivecor

23. But lot needs to be done…

24. At the same time…

25. “How good is a cure if only ten
people can have it...
or we haven’t got the money to
train doctors to use
it properly?”
Nadia Fall,The Doctor’s Dilemma

26. Jaipur Foot
● Designed in India in 1968
● No patent
● Available in 22 countries
● 40$ cost

27. Oral Rehydration Therapy
● Developed in India and Bangladesh
● WHO advocated it in 1979 and by 1995 use had risen
from close to 0% to 81%
● Yearly deaths fell by 67% from 4.6 million in 1979, to
1.5 million in 1999
● High income countries took more than 30 years to adopt
ORS!!

28. ColaLife Project
● In Africa. Cola reach is far more higher than essential
medicines
● Aidpod -use space between Cola bottles to transport
medicines
● Incentive by mobile payments

29. Drones To The Rescue?

30. Country Of Origin Of Patent
Applications

31. There are good things in India but we also suffer and lag
behind
Professors Ernst R. Berndt and Ian M.
Cockburn analyzed the 184 new
medicines approved by the U.S. Food
and Drug Administration between
2000 and 2009. It took more than five
years for half of those drugs to become
available in India.

32. Changing Burden

33. Trend- Focus on Primary Health Services
97.5% of patients can get effective relief by
Primary Care Services.
Reduced cost & increased effectiveness.
Prana offers “Primary Health Services” right
where you are. Prana is your health care
companion in health and disease.
Prana - Location based and personalized healthcare

34. If you have a heart which beats
and is concerned about the
well beings of your fellow
human beings, and if you have
the brains to pursue your heart,
you are a rich person!
Pranahealthcare.co.in
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