Use tech to make healthcare accessible: Experts
"With technology healthcare becoming more and more personal, digitisation has to make sure that healthcare remains 'human'," said NASSCOM president, Debjani Ghosh
Hyderabad: Though the pandemic has accelerated the process of digitisation in healthcare, experts while stressing the need for a data utilisation policy have also called for ensuring that technology must be used to make healthcare more accessible.
Speaking at the first-panel discussion Virtually Connected Healthcare at the 18th edition of BioAsia 2021, Nasscom president Debjani Ghosh said, “With technology healthcare becoming more and more personal, digitisation has to make sure that healthcare remains ‘human’. Technology can predict challenges coming our way, but it also depends upon us on how we act upon these predictions and what choices we make.”
“About 80 per cent of specialists are distributed in large cities while a major part of the population resides in rural and semi-urban areas,” said Apollo Hospitals Joint MD Sangita Reddy. “In such a scenario, telemedicine and technology will play a major role in lowering the barrier of access to healthcare. However, it is important that we build powerful AI tools that can formulate new models which not only we can use but can also be shared with the world,” she further said.
World Economic Forum, Head of Global Health and Healthcare, Arnaud Bernaert said that 47 per cent of the world population does not have access to broadband connection and countries need to develop technology and use cases such that there is equal access for each citizen.
Reiterating Bernaert’s view, Ghosh mentioned that countries are not utilising data to the fullest possible and it is important to come out with a utilisation strategy that will, in turn, take care of the safety and privacy aspect as well.
Now you can get handpicked stories from Telangana Today on Telegram everyday. Click the link to subscribe.
Click to follow Telangana Today Facebook page and Twitter .
