Solutions to fill gaps in rural healthcare shared

Hyderabad: The Raj Reddy Center for Technology and Society organised a brainstorming roundtable meeting recently on ‘Technology to address the last mile in Healthcare’ to understand the gaps in rural healthcare services and identify innovative solutions that can be deployed to address the gaps. The meet also focused on challenges in rural healthcare services, ideas […]

Hyderabad: The Raj Reddy Center for Technology and Society organised a brainstorming roundtable meeting recently on ‘Technology to address the last mile in Healthcare’ to understand the gaps in rural healthcare services and identify innovative solutions that can be deployed to address the gaps.

The meet also focused on challenges in rural healthcare services, ideas on how healthcare can be provided cost-effectively at the doorstep in rural areas and technologies that can help provide quality healthcare.

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Policy makers in public health, NGOs, medical practitioners, healthcare corporates, med-tech startups for rural and policy/impact investors participated in the roundtable meeting, which was organised by Varma Konala, Head of INAI center at IIITH.

Experts from healthcare industry shared the problems they face while implementing their models on-ground such as inadequate services provided due to low-skilled personnel, deficient assistance in last mile delivery because of missing links, no training on critical/emergency care resulting in avoidable disabilities,etc. The participants also proposed solutions that could leverage emerging technologies like AI, to empower and enable the healthcare system at different levels, a press release added.