Transforming Healthcare Organizations through Digital Technologies

Technology is playing a dominant role in almost all the processes within the healthcare industry. From patient registration to data monitoring, from lab tests to self-care tools, every aspect and component includes various technologies in some form. Smart phones and tablets are starting to replace conventional monitoring and recording systems, and people are now given the option of undergoing a full consultation in the privacy of their own homes. Technological advancements in healthcare have contributed to services being taken out of the confines of the hospital walls and integrating them with user-friendly, accessible devices. The impact of technology on healthcare is transformational.

A company that is efficaciously integrating digital initiatives into their services and solutions is Camomile Healthcare Ventures. It is one of the fastest growing and largest healthcare strategy and implementation advisory organizations in Asia. The company is expanding its horizons to offer compelling technology based solutions to transform healthcare organizations in emerging markets. Camomile’s work with leading organizations across private, public, and social sectors has enabled it to gain a deep functional and industry expertise. Its passionate team works towards bringing up a transformational change that the healthcare industry needs, as its focus lies on tackling and converting the challenges to opportunities, while simultaneously working together.

Camomile is uniquely positioned as a boutique healthcare advisory partner providing comprehensive solutions; it primarily focuses on three key areas:

• Strategic advisory and direction setting
• Operational design and implementation
• IT design & transformation

From its inception just 3 years ago, Camomile has worked with global majors in shaping the healthcare sector. Clients include McKesson, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Manipal Hospitals, Care Hospitals, Tata Trusts, Government of Andhra Pradesh and others.

The Leadership of Camomile

Raghava Rao, is the CEO of Camomile and is an accomplished leader in the global healthcare space. He has held senior management and Board positions with various Indian and multinational healthcare companies. He has widely travelled and worked on multiple projects and initiatives in the Indian and the international healthcare sector.

He Co-founded Camomile Healthcare Ventures, a boutique Healthcare Transformation company with focus on advising Healthcare CEOs and Board of Directors on transformation and value creation. In a short span of 3 years, Rao led the company to becoming one of the largest and most influential healthcare consulting companies in India and the Asian region.

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Innovating Better Life

This elegant story unveils the journey of IOTimize Healthcare Solutions India LLP that is focused on developing several technological solutions to uplift the current living situation of the population. Committed to deliver Equitable Healthcare to the underserved population, it has developed a solution to entrench preventive healthcare into the mainstream clinical process without demanding any extra burden on current healthcare scenario.

About the Company

Getting on board in 2015, IOTimize started its journey from California, USA. In December 2017, it established its operations in India. Today, 20+ zealous experts are working towards transforming the deep-rooted belief of the company- “people’s healthy present for better future” into reality. To aid this dream, they are developing state-of-the-art products, which can help a country address its prevalent and far-reaching socioeconomic concerns that are the direct cause of premature deaths from NCDs.

IOTimize is a solution-based organization having a group of passionate and dedicated professionals who strive round the clock to leverage the full potential of existing and upcoming technologies to simplify the complexities that frequently plague the public, irrespective of their age, location, education, or financial background.

The Benevolent Leader

Subir Chandra Ray, the Founder and CEO of IOTimize, is a courageous visionary who quit a fat paying job and turned towards helping out with social issues. During this transition he came across a WHO report based on Public health, which pressed upon his passion of evolving unique and innovative products; designed to address socially relevant issues. And offering best-in-class services that enabled the user to lead a healthy and secure life.

He is an award-winning, seasoned leader with more than 25 years of experience in software development and management. He believes that for any country to thrive, its most precious resource – the people, should have a healthy present. Thus, he has been dedicated to provide people, with the help of cutting edge solutions, a better and secured life by addressing their woes, be it health or social issues.

‘All is Well’ with Oliswell

In current healthcare industry when others are providing preventive care solution in bits and pieces, disintegrated from the mainstream clinical process; the flagship product of IOTimize, Oliswell Lifecare Solution, or OWL is empowering preventive, primary, specialty care delivery, early diagnosis, medical and therapeutic intervention, and remote follow-up of masses. Oliswell Lifecare Solution is designed for saving life from premature death caused by non-communicable diseases. The solution focuses on individual’s comfort, minimizes their time spent, and aims to provide personalized perspective for preventive healthcare. The transformational solution intends to entrench preventive care into the mainstream clinical process, detect NCDs at early stage, disseminate secondary and tertiary care to the un-served and underserved population and engage friends-and-family in the treatment process for better follow-up care. OWL makes use of the communication technology for remote accessibility, advanced AI techniques for early detection of NCD, and social media based micro learning for better follow-up care. 700M people in India and more than 4B globally stands to benefit from OWL. It consists of:

• Multi-parameter integrated medical device with secure cloud connectivity
• Machine learning analytical tools for disease categorization and progression
• Multiple statistical tools for public health monitoring, intervention, and improvements

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Leading the Healthcare Vertical with Innovation

In mid 1950s the Indian healthcare space was merely a medical supplies and consumables market, with no or negligible exposure to new medical and healthcare technologies. There was a great void. Late P K Narula, the founder of SNG India, wanted to reduce & bridge this gap and introduce the latest technologies, from world-over to India.  Founded in the year 1953, Sun Narula Group (SNG), are South Asia’s leading healthcare solutions providers. The organization’s mission is to ensure that every healthcare facility and institution has the best intra-facility logistics and healthcare solutions consequently reduce healing time, healthcare delivery costs, and enhance healthcare quality.

The group has time and again introduced several advanced medical and healthcare technologies in the region. With over 2500 historically and over 450 active healthcare providers as its customers SNG has business spanned all across the country, South Asia and as far as Middle East as well. Over the years it has evolved into South Asia’s leading Healthcare solutions and automation group.

Currently, there are two core healthcare verticals viz. Healthcare Logistics Automation, wherein SNG offers Pneumatic Tube Systems & Automated Pneumatic Waste & Laundry Collection Systems; Healthcare Turn-Key Solutions, wherein it offers Modular & Seamless OR Solutions, TKS packages for Critical Areas such as ICUs, ERs, & Patient Rooms.

SNG has also recently introduced its solutions for Central Medical Gas Supply Pipeline Systems, and have executed and delivered these solutions in a few renowned healthcare facilities.

The Competent Leadership of SNG

Over the decades the reigns were passed on to P K Narula’s sons – Pankaj Narula, the Managing Director and Puneet Narula, the Joint Managing Director. Both have taken forward the family legacy of over 65 years, ensuring that SNG remains a front-liner in providing advanced healthcare solutions in the region.  PK was largely responsible for bringing several high-tech solutions to Indian healthcare space with many firsts in the industry and is also referred to as the father of healthcare solutions in the region. Pankaj & Puneet have taken over the operations of the business in mid 1990s and have since taken the group to the levels of being one of most important and leading healthcare solutions group. Both Pankaj & Puneet are also known as pioneers in the space of healthcare logistics automation solutions and have revolutionised the healthcare space. The group has been the number one provider of these solutions continuously for the past fifteen years with more than 70% market share.

Awards and appreciations

Under the leadership of Mr. Pankaj Narula, SNG has been rated among the top 500 leading healthcare brands in India by MBI & has been awarded for achieving multiple milestones:

• The Most Emerging Brand of the year 2015 by Medgate
• Top 100 SME in India 2016 by India SME Forum
• Top 10 Fastest Growing Healthcare Group 2016 by Silicon Review
• Top 10 Most Valuable Healthcare Solutions Provider Company by Insight Success, 2016
• Best Emerging Brand of the Year by National Awards for Excellence in Healthcare, 2016

Distinctive Services and Products

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Life Wins Care Wins Poised to Serve and Enrich Quality of Life, Wockhardt Hospitals’ Leading Healthcare with Innovation & Excellence

The healthcare businesses including all stakeholders are evolving rapidly and the future looks radically different from present. People now have easy access to healthcare information, which keeps them updated. Digitalization and integrated patient-centric approach is giving rise to databases, thus changing the nature of how healthcare operates. Also, technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Additive manufacturing, and Machine Learning are acting as game changers in the healthcare industry, and will bring about major changes in incoming times.

‘Healthcare is all about providing best services with superior patient outcomes.’ A Hospital chain that has proved just that is Wockhardt Hospitals (WHL). Its main focus and aim being on clinical quality and patient-centric care, Wockhardt Hospitals are bridging the path through best medical practices, best nurses and doctors, best teams at par, best of the technology, and updated with the best medical practices. To gain further insights into this journey full of innovation and patient care we bring you an exclusive interview with Zahabiya Khorakiwala who is theManaging Director and driving force behind this new-age chain of multi super-speciality Wockhardt Hospitals. She is deeply involved on all strategic and operational activities of the company. Under her leadership WHL has achieved profound success and is soaring new heights with each step. In 2018, under her leadership WHL launched a super-speciality hospital in Wardha district of Maharashtra. Zahabiya strongly believes that healthcare industry is on the cusp of paradigm shift and today the three stakeholders of this industry – government, private players and the society have an exciting opportunity to collaborate and redefine India’s health system in order to power the nation’s growth and development, ensuring effective utilization of the resources- Capital, drugs, technology and human resources.

1. Kindly brief us about Wockhardt Hospitals.

Wockhardt Hospitals is a chain of tertiary care super-specialty hospitals with facilities in, Nagpur, Nasik, Vashi (Navi Mumbai), Rajkot, Surat, Wardha, South Mumbai (SOBO) & North Mumbai (NOBO). Our establishment of 350 bed Super Speciality Greenfield Hospital in South Mumbai – The New Age Wockhardt Hospitals, Mumbai Central, which got accredited by JCI (Just Commission International) within 3.5 years of its establishment. Our facility has a Pediatric Cardiac Sciences Centre, with a renowned super-specialist team, and state-of-the-art technology, of global standard. All our hospitals have state-of-the-art infrastructure and globally benchmarked processes to enable quality healthcare and patient safety. The overall 1500 bedded hospitals have over 1000 Standard Operating Procedures or Protocols for both clinical and non-clinical processes in place. The guiding philosophy of Life Wins! Stands for serving and enriching the quality of life of patients.

We has developed proprietary novel Autologous Growth Factors therapies which provides drastically improved clinical outcome over the existing available treatments including  diabetic foot ulcers, wound healing, musculo-skeletal pain management, hair regrowth, scar less surgery, broken bone healing and aesthetics.

2. Kindly provide us in brief about your organization and how has the company progressed over the years?

Embracing innovations and constant up gradations in health services have been our forte that has been constant over the years. We at WHL have identified three keys areas that have been the mainstays over the years and have contributed to our success.

Focus on Quality and Patient Care – We at WHL practice highest quality standard to deliver superior clinical care. We have ensure that all our hospitals are NABH accredited and also the group’s flagship Hopsital the ‘New Age Wockhardt Hospitals’ at Mumbai central has received the coveted JCI accreditation within first three and half years of its operation.

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Best of 10 Healthcare Brands 2019

About The Listing

The Significant Promoters and Contributors of Healthcare

All of us have heard the saying, ‘A healthy nation is a wealthy nation’. Healthcare is one such industry that will thrive to exist till the humans do. It, hence, is a very significant part of the economy of a country. Quality care has ensured that humans all around the world lead a better life. Right from general check-up to diagnosis to post-treatment care, at every step the attention to detail and quality of service provided to the patients have to be up to the mark. Although the healthcare industry has advanced incredibly, it faces several new challenges every day.

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Editor’s Note

Vendors pay stringent attention to their branding of products to attract and preserve a steady customer base. A brand is a perceptible uniqueness that has varied characters and disposition. Usually people buy into the brand and the security that it offers.

Similarly, the healthcare industry also relies on branding, and this factor greatly affects the steady flow of customers to keep healthcare companies afloat. When it comes to healthcare strong branding efforts are needed. Whether it is working with providers or bringing in new patients, healthcare businesses must be able to manage a brand that people have faith in.

This is mainly imperative for physical health and wellbeing.

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Leading Healthcare with Innovative Technology & Branding Tactics

All of us have heard the saying, ‘A healthy nation is a wealthy nation’. Healthcare is one such industry that will thrive to exist till the humans do. It, hence, is a very significant part of the economy of a country. Quality care has ensured that humans all around the world lead a better life. Right from general check-up to diagnosis to post-treatment care, at every step the attention to detail and quality of service provided to the patients have to be up to the mark. Although the healthcare industry has advanced incredibly, it faces several new challenges every day…

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Best of 10 Healthcare Brands 2019

Camomile Healthcare Ventures: Transforming Healthcare Organizations through Digital Technologies

Technology is playing a dominant role in almost all the processes within the healthcare industry.…

IOTimize Healthcare Solutions: Innovating Better Life

This elegant story unveils the journey of IOTimize Healthcare Solutions India LLP that is focused…

Sun Narula Group India: Leading the Healthcare Vertical with Innovation

In mid 1950s the Indian healthcare space was merely a medical supplies and consumables market,…

Life Wins Care Wins Poised to Serve and Enrich Quality of Life, Wockhardt Hospitals’ Leading Healthcare with Innovation & Excellence

The healthcare businesses including all stakeholders are evolving rapidly and the future looks radically different…

Healthcare Consultancy Services: A Management Advisory Enhancing Businesses with Unique Approach

Healthcare Consulting Services, popularly known as HCS is in the business of Managing and sustaining…

Brand Building

Brand Promise + Brand Experience = Relationship

Both in terms of revenue and employment – over the last decade, the Indian healthcare…

Energing Tech-Trends

Trending Technologies: Unveiling New Prospects for the Indian Healthcare Sector

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A Management Advisory Enhancing Businesses with Unique Approach

Healthcare Consulting Services, popularly known as HCS is in the business of Managing and sustaining Hospitals.

Amit Sontakke, the CEO, Co-founder, Managing Partner, and Principal Consultant of HCS is the rock-pillar who has eighteen plus years of experience in the Hospital & Healthcare industry. He is a renowned veteran in the Hospital & Healthcare circle and has been instrumental in creating a Hospital Consulting business into a profitable venture. It all started by doing a single Hospital consulting company in the years 2009 as a freelance consultant. Over the years, they moved from one project to another, gradually they were successful enough to create a team of consultant, who were capable to do independent GAP analysis of the Hospitals. By doing multiple gap analysis, they understood the pattern of various gaps or bottlenecks in the different processes of the hospital departments. Based on these gap analyses and analyzing various bottlenecks in the various processes, they could devise solutions depending on the size of the hospitals, services and specialties hospital possesses.

Inception Story of the Store

HCS consultants realized that couple of hospital they were managing had somewhere faced similar problems such as Lack of funds, Lack of market survey, Not defined profit centers and cost centers, unorganized documentations, and micromanagement issue of promoters. They also noticed that data analysis and documentation was missing, few or most of the departments were outsourced, and promoters were lacking the corporate governance.

HCS considered these rising issues as an opportunity to grow and to do backward integration. Since then, they started focusing on a couple of departments or verticals, which will be profit centers and develop the capacity of the HCS to start replicating in all the hospitals they manage. In the year 2017, HCS team freeze one of the opportunity to create and establish pharmacies both in retail set up and hospital setup. That’s how, HCS created their first medical store in the name of HCS Medicals – Chemist & Druggist.

The Journey of HCS Medicals

During the mid-phase of the year, HCS Medical concept was floated among HCS consultants, an idea originated among the consultant and a team was appointed under the leadership of Mr. Sontakke. He appointed Retail pharmacy store manager to give shape and structure to the vision of the leaders. Under the able leadership of Mr. Sontakke, they could identify the precise location for setting up the retail shop. The concept was floated that the retail shop should be located at the junction of any four square and should be near the metro. Since one of the thought processes was to establish the retail store, Option A – under all metro station from Dahisar to Versova and Option B- to establish and create medical store based out of hospitals, either multi-specialty or single specialty with or without a deposit.

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Best of 10 Healthcare Brands 2019

Orange Peels: What Benefits do they Offer?

Juicy, sweet, and well-known for its concentration of Vitamin C, oranges, the healthy citrus fruit, are the perfect snack and adds a special tangy flavor to numerous recipes. There is no doubt that oranges are the most demanded fruit around the world. However, the orange peel is an often overlooked facet of this nutritious fruit. In the old times, orange peels had high value and people could extract essential oils from them in a number of remedies and medicines as well. Even today, orange peels are in regular consumption as a part of the Mediterranean diet.

Being considered as a fruit full of health benefits, there may still exist some unclear doubts regarding using orange peels. So, firstly, let’s accept this fact that the orange peels contain nearly three to four times the fiber of the actual fruit and flavonoids. Amazing, isn’t it?

So, let us look at the wonderful benefits of orange peels and how those can be brought into our daily use.

 Good for a Healthy Heart

Orange peels are rich in a flavonoid called hesperidin and possess anti-inflammatory properties. A recent survey concludes that a diet containing citrus fruits, such as oranges, offers protection against cardiovascular disease due to the folate present in it. It is necessary for lowering the levels of the cardiovascular risk factor. The PMFs i.e polymethoxylated flavones in orange peels have been shown to lower cholesterol more effectively than prescription drugs without their associated side effects.

Also, consuming hesperidin present in oranges could significantly lower diastolic blood pressure and the progress can be noticed within two to three weeks.

They have Anti-cancer Characteristics

The flavonoids present in the orange peel can impede RLIP76 protein, which is interrelated to obesity and cancer. The study has revealed that the experiment has been performed on a mouse and scientists could successfully remove RLIP76 from its body. It showed that the mouse cannot get obese and cannot get diabetes, high cholesterol, and cancer as well. The same can be taken into consideration for the human body.

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Elevating Patient Experience with Value-based & Data-driven Solutions

Endorsed as ‘The Most Promising Technology’ by Home Care 100, ‘The Best Digital Health Technology’ by Juniper Research, and with many more such prestigious titles, Reflexion Health has exploited innovations in technology to put patients first in their physical therapy. The organization is a virtual physical therapy company dedicated to helping people recover from surgery or injury at home.

Headquartered in San Diego, Reflexion Health was founded by the Gary and Mary West Institute in 2012. Its flagship product, VERA™, is an FDA-cleared Virtual Exercise Rehabilitation Assistant that combines an engaging avatar, 3D motion-capture technology, and telehealth oversight by licensed physical therapists.

A Polymath Leader

The President and Chief Executive Officer of Reflexion Health, Joseph Smith, MD, PhD brings decades of health-IT focused strategic, engineering and clinical expertise to the innovative digital health company. He is an international speaker and expert on digital therapeutics and healthcare innovation. At Reflexion, Dr. Smith collaborates with the Product Strategy/Business Development and Information Technology teams to keep the company abreast of market trends and innovations happening within the healthcare industry.

Source: https://insightscare.com/reflexion-health-elevating-patient-experience-value-based-data-driven-solutions/