Learnings from the Silicon Valley: A story of grit and glory

Serial entrepreneur, Sanjeev Saxena’s session was an eye-opener in many ways. He shared his learnings and experiences. He spoke on the huge disease burden faced by our country and elaborated on how important it is to reduce healthcare costs. He said, “It is imperative to make healthcare services easily accessible, affordable and more patient-centric.”

As the CEO of POC Medicals, he also informed that his company is looking to resolve  two major issues in Indian healthcare: geographic inaccessibility and cost prohibition, through next generation screening tools to the market. Citing breast cancer as an example, he  pointed out that it was curable if diagnosed early, but many women do not get their tests done because of affordability and the discomfort caused by mammograms. Hence, his company has launched a blood-based test, to screen for cancer. In his opinion, “It is possible to make cancer diagnosis easier with blood tests. All our data lies in the blood.”

Reiterating that healthcare entrepreneurship is all about doing something for someone else. It is about giving it back to the society, he said that all businesses are looking at creating unicorns. However, this mindset needs to change and the focus should be on making a difference, especially in healthcare.

He also predicted that next gen technologies like deep machine learning are ushering a new paradigm in healthcare.

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