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Digital Health – Vision 2019

Digital Health – Vision 2019

The Opportunity

The meteoric rise of digital technology has enabled the disruption of many disparate industries. Yet health care, which represents about 10% of global GDP, has lagged from other sectors. While healthcare has historically been slow to adopt technology, the industry is already experiencing transformation. The digital health industry is expected to reach $206 billion by 2020. Large companies and market leaders are already redefining themselves with digital transformation, with prime focus on their main functional areas with customer-centric approach.

The change is hectic, as big data and the ability to crunch it will deliver actionable insights that will increase health care’s reach, efficiency, accuracy, and value. This is the need of the hour as well, because the demand for services is on the rise at the same time that the need to reduce costs is becoming ever more acute. The aging of the big Boomer generation, the rising prevalence of individuals with multiple chronic conditions, the already anticipated shortage of both primary care and specialist physicians, and the ever-increasing health care costs all are exerting pressure on a system which is ripe for disruption. Digital technology has disrupted many industries and healthcare is no exception.

Mobile Apps are emerging as the single largest tools in digitalizing approach to healthcare and Individuals’ Engagement in Self-Care. Improving health is a universal goal of doctors, patients and health care systems. The proliferation of mobile apps as health parameters indicators and means to help people manage their own health promises to make a real change in individuals’ lives. According to a Deloitte report, people who are engaged in their own health care have better outcomes. Chances of preventing disease or treating it early are more possible for the person and more cost-effective. Mobile apps offer a chance for individuals to identify problems early on while motivating them to adopt better health behavior and improve life styles. The rise of mobile apps changes the status quo of medicine: According to a medical expert patients empowered with knowledge can take action. When patients are educated and proactive, physicians have to become their guides in the jungle of health care information.

At the same time that providers are being pushed forward by the digital surge, health care system leaders are grappling how best they can leverage from the vista of opportunities it opens up as large data can now be put to proactive use. While hospitals still hold the chunk of such data, captured in electronic health records, most health care systems still operate with fragmented data, leading to challenges in generating actionable insights for their providers. Therefore, distributing transaction records through a peer-to-peer system with a shared digital ledger is a way to improve the availability and integrity of information. Block chain technologies make it possible for a large numbers of users to faithfully and securely gain access to a common ledger, all without requiring a basis for trust between parties. As digital transformation in healthcare moves forward, nurturing this combination of security, portability and ready accessibility is imperative to an array of technology trends in healthcare, including IoMT devices and cloud-based hosting. Any kind of device that senses and communicates health data is part of the so-called health care internet of things, or IoT or ioMT. Expectations of growth in this sector are robust. Experts predict a proliferation in the number of companies that emerge to specialize in population health management, health information systems, and health care data and analytics, based on their ability to integrate data from multiple sources and use it to target individual and population health.

Artificial intelligence (AI) kicks in big time for interpretation and utilization of data including patient medical history records, treatment data and lately information coming from wearable health trackers and sensors. This kind of data could be analyzed in details not only to provide proactive patients with suggestions on all aspects including lifestyle, but it could also be used as instructive pieces of information while customizing health care based on the needs and habits of patients.

It yet remains to be seen how Digital technologies, will be able to support creating actionable insights that will help expand precision medicine, transform care delivery, and improve patient experience and as a whole consolidate the scattered healthcare sector into a compact digital Pandora’s box.

Digital technologies must cater to both patients and providers equally along with:

  1. Enable easy access to patients and providers with user friendly mobile and digital interface. including the patient’s home

  2. Enable remote monitoring of patients, for example their blood glucose or blood pressure levels.

  3. Impart knowledge and ownership to individuals of their own health and wellness

  4. Increase accuracy, standardization, and efficiency of intermediatory platforms and services delivered. Allow seamless communication among providers and health systems

  5. Leverage all available tools such as artificial intelligence, Telemedicine, Telehealth, M Health Apps· Enable more and more industries to adapt the mobile payment method, resulting in time saving and alleviating monetary tracking that will make for smooth transactions. Mobile payments also make payments made during odd hours and emergency situations manageable and trusted.

  6. Make healthcare available to masses at reduced costs through the use of all available digital technologies and data convergence.

Vision 2019

The year 2019 must witness mobile and digital integration in the healthcare industry and data convergence to bring medical providers and patients a new relationship level of trust, ease, and satisfaction across a global platform. All in all, the grand vision 2019 is tailoring healthcare to each patient’s individual age, gender and health condition and all that at the click of a button.

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Rakesh Pant

Rakesh Pant

Rakesh Kumar Pant, Vice President Operations, is bachelor of science in physics and chemistry from university of Lucknow, has also earned his Master’s in computer applications from technical university Uttar Pradesh. He joined smartData in year 2005 as a software engineer and since then have played various roles in organisation including team leader, system analyst, business unit head, director operations. He has also been instrumental in setting up the smartData branch at Dehradun, Uttarakahnd.

He has also worked extensively in all three locations of smartData in different capacity as and when needed. His main area of expertise is providing consultation and solutions on the technology by keeping the business strategies in focus. Other than work he likes to read about physics especially relativistic effects and quantum mechanics, his interest also expands to mythology of different cultures and by the way he loves to drive long distances if given a chance.

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Vivek Sharma

Vivek Sharma

Vivek is having 19 years of escalating information technology experience with top-notch blend of innovation, technology, delivery and business experience. His uniquely in-depth understanding of technical complexities and readiness to take over any technical challenge has helped the organization to build a rigid MS technology group of sound developers at all facilities of smartData. He has been always realistic and extremely adept at scaling business operations. As a leader, he has a great virtue of team management skills and proven ability to build, motivate and lead many enterprise-class quality engineering teams. He has been with smartData since 2004 and worked with various positions: Project Manager, Business Unit Head, Delivery Head and Director Operations. Specialties: Lean and Agile Development, Microsoft Technologies, Service Operations, Leadership of large Teams and Projects, Growth strategy of Repeat Business. He has played a major role in stabilizing healthcare MS in Mohali branch and Microsoft array in Nagpur branch. Vivek has done Post Graduate Diploma in Computers from Kurukshetra University. He is also Microsoft Certified Solution Developer and certified Scrum Master. Apart from being a tech professional, he is also an avid trekker/sports lover.
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Deepak Sharma

Deepak Sharma

Deepak Sharma, VP Operations, has an extensive exposure in leading large scale teams & operations across geographies. Specialties: Service Operations, Leadership of large Teams and Projects, Relationship Management, Quality & Process Improvement and Training & Development.

He has more than 16 years of experience developing high-tech consumer and enterprise applications and is with smartData since 2004. He has played key role at smartData with expansion of Open source domain and Operational processes. He has travelled across US and Australia for strengthening the clientele. His personal and people management skills makes him his team’s favourite. His core strengths are his eye to catch human potential i.e. leadership and ensuring strict quality control through processes. He is excellent with data science and analytical reporting.

Deepak earned his Gold medal in Masters in Computer Application from Kamla Nehru Institute of Technology. Apart from his work, he is a modern day sports fan i.e. his brain is always packed with situational information, Football and Cricket being his favourites. He loves to unwind by taking Road trips and has covered more than half the length of India by Road in his Car.

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Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

AI inspired healthcare is aiming at providing better care. From examining different computerized algorithms to matching behavior of complex medical data, the end objective is to optimize clinical procedures and clinical outcomes.

Lets check the stats of growth of AI in current healthcare space. AI in healthcare is growing with a CAGR of 14% and is expected to be a market of $35B by 2025. Revenue!! Profit!! Growth!! is what each business seeks whether a startup or an established enterprise, get a free consultation from technology expert.

Here are some of the potential areas of growth you can leverage from based on our analysis of market in 2018 are:-

  1. Radiology Image Analysis: Currently, image analysis is very time consuming for human providers, with use of machine-learning algorithm you can analyze 3D scans upto 90-95% faster then manual. Additionally, AI image analysis can support remote areas that don’t have easy access to healthcare providers and make tele-medicine more effective as patients can use their camera phones to send in pics of rashes, bruises to determine what care is required. Google has launched new eye detection ML algorithm analyzing scans of the back of a patient’s eye to assess a person’s risk of heart disease using machine learning. AI tech experts can guide you to get the best for your practice.

  2. Virtual nursing assistants: Uniquely manages high volume patient engagement, like a digital nurse to help people monitor patient’s condition and follow up with treatments, between doctor visits. Care Angel’s virtual nurse assistant can even provide wellness checks through voice and AI. Based on the inputs, further commands to be sent to doctor or a doctor connect is required. See how clinics/medical practice has transformed using new tech.

  3. Clinical Trials: Finding an eligible patient for clinical trials is always very tedious and cumbersome process for research organizations because it takes days to find out whether the patient is eligible for trials or not but with the help of AI you can easily reduce the trials time by almost half, improving trial quality. AI is finding bio-markers and gene signatures that cause diseases, recruiting eligible clinical trial patients in minutes, reading volumes of text in seconds. Check how you can transform your clinical trials using latest technology.

  4. Dosage Errors: With the help of AI by defining algorithms on extensive data available, you can determine the correct dosage to be suggested to patients which improvises the overall process by 30-40%. This is very effective for patients taking immuno suppressant drugs to administer to organ patients

  5. Health Monitoring : Wearable health trackers – like FitBit, Apple, Garmin – monitors heart rate and activity levels. With AI, there will be alerts to the user to get more exercise and can share this information to doctors for additional data points on the needs and habits of patients. See and check the benefits of healthcare tech expert to revolutionize your healthcare practice.

  6. AI assisted Robotic Surgery:With AI techniques, you can analyze data from pre-op medical records to physically guide the surgeon’s instrument in real-time during a procedure. Eventually which can reduction by 21% in patients’ length of stay in the hospital following surgery. Check AI & ML in healthcare.

  7. 7. Healthcare Fraud Detection:Predictive analytics identifies patterns that are potentially fraudulent and then develops sets of “rules” to “flag” certain claims. Generally, healthcare frauds are not obvious and thus difficult to detect. The “intelligence” in the system learns from these new rules and continually becomes more sophisticated in identifying, even more, fraud potentials. Check healthcare compliance that you must have in your web/mobile application and get the free consultation from experts.

Technology turn advantageous when implemented with adequate R&D in the niche you are operating in. This is what we are doing and advice the same, “Probing towards smartHealth.”

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iOS Developer

  • At least 3 – 5 years of iOS experience in software development programming with Swift 4 and Objective C using XCode 10 environment.
  • Must have released/worked on enterprise level app from conception to completion in the App Store.
  • Experience consuming data from REST APIs, preferably with JSON.
  • Familiar with development tools such as GIT, Subversion, Jira, Hudson, Bamboo, or equivalents.
  • Experience with Automated Software Quality Assurance.
  • Agile/Scrum development on complex applications/products across distributed teams. Use of JIRA/ Ace/ Trello (or similar tools) is essential.
  • Good exposure of client communication (voice & text chat through Skype).
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  • At least 10 to 15 years experience of using .NET framework.
  • At least 3 years of in-depth experience with the following technologies: Visual Studio (2015 or higher), C#, ASP.Net MVC, Entity Framework / NHibernate etc.
  • Proficient understanding of client side technologies including HTML5, CSS, Bootstrap, jQuery, and experience using a JavaScript framework such as Kendo.UI, Vue.js/ Angular/React.
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  • Agile/Scrum development on complex applications/products across distributed teams. Use of JIRA (or similar tools) is essential.
  • Experience of .Net Core preferred.
  • Web API and RESTful web services.
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  • Team handling and knowledge of project management tools, client communication.
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