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AI & Robotics Transforming the Healthcare Industry
By adoption of artificial intelligence and robotics, healthcare industry can be transformed drastically. Numerous companies have already started investing in the same industry. Tata Elxsi is amongst the world’s leading providers of design and technology services across industries including Automotive, Broadcast, Communications, Healthcare and Transportation. Tata Elxsi is helping customers reimagine their products and services through design thinking and application of digital technologies such as IoT (Internet of Things), Cloud, Mobility, Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence. In an email interaction with Nitisha from BISinfotech; Biswajit Biswas, Chief Data Scientist, Tata Elxsi explains the transformation of healthcare in India through the usages of AI and robotics.
Biswajit Biswas
Chief Data Scientist, Tata Elxsi
permanently reimbursable. The other marker that shows increased activity in this space is investments in digital health. For example, 2020 saw 3-times more venture-capital led investments compared to 2017. In conclusion, telehealth is here to stay for good, and Covid-19 pandemic gave a boost to telemedicine and many medical specialties will immensely benefit from it. telehealth as people were indoors. What are your takes on it? Tata Elxsi has been working on building telehealth solutions for You are right. Covid-19 took the entire world by storm. There was more than 10-years. We have established ourselves as a preferred hardly any time to prepare for what was to come. Countries design, engineering, and regulatory compliance service provider around the world reacted with stringent actions and guidelines to healthcare businesses. Our end-to-end capabilities have to tackle the spread. While some countries contained the allowed us to successfully commercialize solutions ranging from proliferation of covid-19 to a large extent, most of them bore a connected medical devices, mHealth applications, Software as high social and economic burden. However, a common theme a Medical Device (SaMD) to a complete telehealth platform for between all the countries was the unprecedented stress that video consultations. Last year, we launched our HIPAA and GDPR overwhelmed healthcare systems. The covid-19 outbreak has compliant customizable digital health platform that virtualizes major exposed how inadequate our global healthcare systems are to touchpoints across the patient journey leading to improved patient deal with the rising healthcare demand. We saw elective surgeries experience. Since its launch, we have witnessed high interest not getting deferred to a later date and hospitalizations only for life- only from the healthcare providers but also from the medical threatening conditions. device and pharmaceutical drug manufacturers. It indicates that Telehealth became a necessity for people and healthcare healthcare businesses are more open to transitioning to digital providers to continue regular consultations and care for chronic platforms for healthcare services and patient engagement. In conditions. In the US, telehealth services have been used 78 conclusion, telehealth is here to stay for good, and many medical times higher for outpatient care and consultation compared specialties will immensely benefit from it. with February 2020, according to public reports. Apart from the What are your points on the increasing popularity of Remote willingness of patients and providers to use telehealth services, diagnosis and efficient health monitoring measures using AI? government backing also contributed immensely to the upsurge in telehealth adoption. The government realized the need and Remote patient monitoring (RPM) is establishing itself as an effective waived off regulatory requirements. Likewise, they also brought tool for chronic condition management and longitudinal care. As providers aim to replace a considerable number of in-patient it under the purview of reimbursable services. The demand for telehealth has since stabilized following the first monitoring with RPM in the coming years, we expect further increase last year. It is, nevertheless, considerably higher than growth in this field. Moreover, traditional technology businesses like before the pandemic. We have noted improvement in the Apple, Google, and others have started investing in healthcare attitude of public and healthcare businesses towards telehealth. and wellness devices and solutions, expanding their product and The government has also made certain telehealth services services ecosystem.
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