The state of healthcare IT in India is a paradox. While India has state-of-the-art hospitals of excellence, these are few and far between. Such hospitals are simply restricted to the urban elite and the well to do. India is in a position to offer state of the art healthcare, to those who come to us from other countries but is unable to do so for the millions of Indians living in suburban and rural India. Despite the apparent benefits, it is a matter of grave concern that the use of informatics in the healthcare industry is relatively less than in banking, commerce, travel, automobile or any other industry. The picture, however, is not totally bleak. It is reassuring to see that the central government and several state governments have accepted, integrating healthcare with Informatics as a means to provide healthcare.
To understand the best viable progressive model for delivering medical care and expertise, the Healthcare IT India Summit will bring in the industry experts and regulators to discuss and present the scope for the healthcare informatics. The summit, hosted by Fleming Gulf Conferences, will be held at Hyderabad on the April 22-23, 2013. The delegates will also share their personal views which are backed with their credibility and exposure to the technological advancements.
Dr Thanga Prabhu, General Electric (GE Healthcare IT), Indian Association for Medical Informatics, American Medical Informatics Association, Swansea University, UK, Clinical Director, EC Member, Member, International Ambassador, Adi Codaty, United Healthcare International, Vice President, Global Sites, Syam Adusumilli, United Health Group, VP – Consulting, Products and Solutions, Shri. Sampath Kumar, Sankara Nethralaya, Chief Information Officer, Devender Manral, Fortis Healthcare, Global Head – Information Technology Data Center & Infrastructure Management Services are some of the eminent speakers for the Healthcare IT Summit. Senior healthcare IT representatives from GMV and DELL will also be sharing their take on healthcare IT in India.
The two day summit will witness talk given on intriguing subjects like, ‘Issues and Solutions – Implementing Electronic Medical Records’, ‘Mobile clinical computing’, ‘New Age Biometrics: A big data and Mobile view’, ‘Collaborative portals for improved patient experience and quality of care’ and so on. ‘The Evolution of Pharmacy Management in India’, ‘Health information exchange – collaborative portals for improved patient experience and quality of care’ and ‘Real world evidence data’ are amongst the attention-grabbing subjects for the panel discussion.
IT in healthcare is all set to bridge the gap between the haves and the have nots. The establishment of the Telemedicine Society of India, Medical Informatics Society of India, the publishing of several journals dedicated to e-Health promise well for the future. India has a long way to go, but then so do scores of other countries. The Government of India has launched the Health Management Information System (HMIS) portal to convert local health data into real time useful information, management indicators and trends which could be displayed graphically in reports.
With the commendable increase in mobile usage and the imminent deployment of 3G, it is vital that broad band wireless technology be exploited and used to develop mHealth. While mBanking, mCommerce, mEntertainment is becoming a reality India needs to develop mHealth. IT improves patient care, by enabling processes and systems to be introduced and repeatedly monitored. The present digital divide in healthcare, existing between the haves and the have nots, will gradually shrink.
The Healthcare IT Summit – Hyderabad, is being sponsored by DELL (Platinum Sponsor) and HTC global Services, United Health Group and GMV – innovating solutions (Bronze sponsors) along with GE Healthcare (Supporting Partner). Express Healthcare is the official media partner for this summit.
Contact Details:
Tikenderjit Singh Makkar
Dy. Mktg. Manager – India
Tel: (020) 67276403
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.fleminggulf.com
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