Innovations in Medical care Showcased in India during InnoHEALTH meet; next meet on October 5 & 6, 2018: DR VK Singh

A two day international meet on innovations in the medical care arena was held in the National capital this week, opening new vistas in diagnostic discipline, backbone of holistic and quick treatment.

 Experts and companies held brainstorming sessions discussing threadbare needs of patients in India where rural swathes still pine for healthcare at an affordable cost.

Experts say although Rural India accounts for about 70 per cent of the population, it has less than one third of the country’s hospitals, doctors, beds etc.          

The meet -“InnoHEALTH 2017” was organized on September 18 and 19 2017. It is the annual feature and it was the second in the series.Third meet will be held in October next here.

 “With the immense response this year we are pleased to announce the dates for InnoHEALTH 2018, 5^th – 6^th October 2018, hoping to come back next year keeping the shared goals in healthcare with only, bigger, better and meatier for all stakeholders”, an elated Dr VK Singh, spirit behind the innovation ideas platform and head of the organizing body said. He is the managing director of the InnovatioCuris.

InnoHEALTH 2017 organisers InnovatioCuris and Indiattitude are working with a vision of bringing down the healthcare delivery cost yet maintaining the quality. InnoHEALTH 2017 helped in doing so by creating deliberations among policy makers, industry and academia on topics linked with Innovations in Hospitals, diagnostics, medical devices, pharma, biotech, digital healthcare and new delivery models

According to Mr Sachin Gaur, senior executive of the organising body, the conference provided a platform for Indian innovators to pitch their innovations and compete for a young innovators award the Award featured some of the brightest minds in the country showcasing innovational breakthroughs in the fields of Healthcare in Rural, Neonatal and Devices.

Inforamtively, novatioCuris (IC) was created as a knowledge based platform to exchange best practices of healthcare innovations across globe by conducting international conference, quarterly magazine named “InnoHEALTH”, complimentary webinars and training.

It has now launched IC Innovator Club (IC)² and its first meeting was held on 20 Sept at India International Center (IIC, Annexe), Delhi. 

The conference saw participation of around 250 Delegates with an overwhelming response of 170 on the very first day including 50 elite speakers from all over the world.

Mr  Riho Kruuv Estonian Ambassador to India, DG Armed Forces Medical Services and Prof Anil Gupta known for his work of innovations were some of the key speakers.

It was by attended by renowned healthcare personalities such as Dr. Arvind Lal of Lal Pathlabs, Dr. Ravi Gaur CEO Oncquest Labs, Dr. Padam Khanna – NHSRC, Mr. Partha Dey – IBM India, Mr. R Rengarajan Iyengar from HCL Healthcare.

On opening day, the conference hosted a B2B meeting on to connect the Indian stakeholders with a visiting European Union delegation pertaining to innovative health sector companies. The companies were selected through a competitive program with a focus on cost effective innovations for Indian market.

 Mr Gaur said,The conference was joined by many partners such as Embassy of Estonia as a country partner, NHSRC representing MoHFW, Government of India, Public Health Foundation of India, CAHO as the association of accredited hospitals of India, AHPI represents more than 10,000 private healthcare providers. 

IAMI bringing the clinicians involved in healthcare analytics, ScanBalt bringing the outreach to more than 22,000 professionals in 11 European countries and many others made the  InnoHEALTH 2017 a very successful event in terms of the perceived outcome, Says Dr Singh.

  

The aim of club is to bring all innovators, investors, start up, technology persons, policy makers, health experts and legal advisors to be members and hand hold by sharing each other’s success story and challenges to incubate their ideas to take dream and vision of India forward. It has very strong band of advisors to support activity of club and mentor projects.

The main aim is to bring down healthcare delivery cost yet maintain quality through innovations. IC has outreach of 30,000 people globally to share its activities.