IT Essential For Growth Of Indian Healthcare

The 3rd Annual Healthcare IT India Summit (organized by Fleming India Conferences) commenced today at the Taj West End Hotel, gathering healthcare experts from across the region to address burning issues and challenges faced by the healthcare industry in the region and brainstorm on future of healthcare technology in the nation. The conference kicked off with an opening speech on ‘Healthcare future under current scenario and resilience with information technology,’ by Joy Chakraborty (Chief Operating Officer - P D Hinduja Hospital & M R C – Mumbai) who is the chair person for first day of the summit. It was followed by opening key note on ‘Healthcare under Modi Government’ by Rajendra Pratap Gupta (Advisor to Union Government).

Joy Chakraborty (Consultant- Health Funding Department - Dubai Health Authority), in his session focused on identifying new trends and analysis of the current market situation. The session was followed with a special address by U.T. Khader, Honourable Minister of Health and Family Welfare - State Of Karnataka.’ Niranjan Kumar Ramakrishnan (Chief Information Officer (CIO) - Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi) elaborated on Hospital Information Management System, Data Management/Data Governance, HCIT's opportunities and challenges. A presentation by Dr. Prabhat Tewari (MD - FIACTA, FTEE, SGPGIMS, Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Department of Anaesthesiology, Lucknow) on data mining in OR and ICU followed. The day concluded with a panel discussion on Strategic and Successful adoption of IT in healthcare – 'The Role of CIO’ was moderated by Puneet Kanodia (Ricoh India Ltd - Chief Operating Officer – Healthcare Vertical, India).

Second day of the summit has four sessions. First session of the day is dedicated to Digitization, Cloud based Healthcare and Smart Hospitals. During the session, Sandeep Saxena (Persistent Systems - Business Development Asia Pacific Region) will throw light on Building Smart Hospitals. Second session of the day will focus on Tele-medicine, Sustainable Healthcare and understanding the patient centric healthcare system in which Dr. Shankar Narang (Fortis Memorial Research Institute) will put forth his views on understanding the new age patient, the responsibilities of the healthcare organization towards the patient and responsibilities of patient towards the hospital. Third and fourth session will be on technology for better patient care and interoperability in Indian Healthcare, rationalizing IT in Healthcare and the future of IT in ever growing healthcare industry.

Several Healthcare technology solution providers like Vision Solutions, CSC Asia Middle East and Africa Region, Draeger Medical India Pvt. Limited, Attune Technologies, HID Global, Oracle Health Sciences,Tadiran, Diaspark, Merivaara, ABI Health, Ricoh India Ltd. showcased their solutions at the summit. The two-day forum is tailor-made with two years of industry feedback to open the floor to discussion for better understanding of Healthcare IT in India, its issues, challenges and the current technologies in use. The 3rd Annual Healthcare IT India Summit will conclude with closing remarks from the chair Niranjan Kumar Ramakrishnan (Chief Information Officer (CIO) from Sir Ganga Ram Hospital) and a networking session.