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ResMed’s Perspective on the growth of Digital Healthcare Infrastructure in India

CXOToday has engaged in an exclusive interview with Sandeep Gulati, General Manager, South Asia, ResMed

 

Q.1 How is ResMed contributing to the viable growth of the healthcare sector?

Healthcare professionals and patients alike are benefited from ResMed’s cloud connected technology, empowers both patient and doctors to monitor the therapy remotely and help caretakers and physician to adhere therapy to the patients’ platforms. The technologies in the devices ResMed produces enable more personalization of sleep apnea therapy and allows doctors to remotely analyse or change device settings. ResMed’s sleep and respiratory care devices feature inbuilt wireless access that transmits data as well as therapy results. Cloud-connected technology and virtual treatment approaches contribute to reducing the burden on healthcare systems. These technologies provide remote monitoring and effective management of symptoms and illnesses without the requirement for in-person consultation or extended hospital visits.

Digital health refers to this nexus between technology and health. In India, the delivery of value-based care throughout the healthcare ecosystem is enabled in significant proportion by digital health technology. By deploying cloud connected solutions, healthcare organisations can leverage of the technological capability of the present, secure the data and information of their patients, and attend to patient needs.

In a recent story, Dr Anant Mohan mentioned that the cases of sleep disorder have increased, further there is long waiting for sleep lab. Sleep disorder diagnosis and treatment have increased exponentially as a result of Covid-19’s increased utilisation of telemedicine and remote monitoring services. Sleep disorders are a silent epidemic in India and using sleep diagnostic tests like onesleeptest by ResMed can help individuals analyse their sleep quality. ResMed has developed healthcare services and products that support health care providers in providing care in settings outside of hospitals. As more doctors in India’s medical community begin to consider sleep disturbances as a possible contributing cause to a variety of chronic illnesses like hypertension, diabetes, and cardiovascular problems, they have also started recommending sleep testing and therapy to their patients.

Q.2 How is out of hospital care developing with remote care technologies? How remote care technologies are reducing the burden on hospitals and the importance of remote monitoring and smart technologies in healthcare consultation today?

Remote patient monitoring drastically lowers outpatient visits and hospital readmissions. Collaboration in physicians can be aided by cloud-based solutions, which make it simpler for institutions, departments, and medical professionals to share information and work together both inside and outside of the office. Utilising a broad range of cloud based EHR (electronic health record) business management systems, where records are stored on remote server and accessible over the internet, ResMed’s medical equipment and solutions help healthcare practitioners in settings outside of hospitals. All data entry and storage processes become quicker, more precise, more organised when everything is in the cloud. Hospitals conserve space while lowering the likelihood of human error.

The implementation of high-quality care is facilitated through cloud-connected technologies. The aim of cloud technology in the health industry is to enhance the quality, reliability, and efficiency of healthcare services, as well as to engage patients and their families more effectively, enhance care coordination, and protect patient confidentiality. With real-time monitoring, patients and physicians can keep an eye on vital signs, changes in heart rhythm, and blood glucose levels as they happen. Collaborative effort in patient care has been streamlined using cloud storage with digitized medical records. Doctors can more easily collaborate on viewing or sharing patient medical records because to cloud storage.

The highest level of security and privacy is made possible in healthcare using cloud computing. It secures data against both accidental and natural disaster-related loss. ResMed strives to ensure that all patient information is safe and that it is only ever shared with the patient’s permission. Telehealth simplifies the process for individuals to get in touch with the medical professionals they require in any situation. Health systems can become smarter, quicker, and more effective in providing care to people by utilising artificial intelligence in hospital settings and clinics, and swiftly analysing vast quantities of patient record helps in the identification of diseases. Patient data can be utilised in research to enhance patient care, understand more about health risks and causation, enhance diagnostics, create innovative treatments, prevent disease, and improve quality of care. With the use of cloud technology, clinicians may use information in ground-breaking, resourceful ways to enhance patient care while also keeping it safer and more accessible.

Q.3 How accelerated adoption of cloud connected devices is improving efficiency and accessibility?

The milestone of 20 crore digitally connected health records was reached by Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission. The Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) strives to establish the groundwork that will enable the nation’s interactive digital health system, with the goal of achieving accessibility to just, cost effective, and elevated medical care that are dependable and mindful of the requirements of individuals.

Communicating complex data in milliseconds has become a reality due to recent advancements in cloud connectivity, as well as the increasing utilisation AI technologies and integration in the healthcare sector. Healthcare is still a dynamic sector, and the cloud’s involvement could be essential in interpreting massive amounts of health records efficiently to generate crucial patient insights. The expansion of research and development will result in preventive care and move the health sector even further up the value chain. Medical devices can remotely gather data for storing, processing, availability, and exchange by using the cloud.

With the popularisation of wearable technology, individuals can utilise gadgets at their convenience and disclose information to the cloud where the doctor can examine the data. The process of cloud transmission of data enables it for physicians to conveniently access data for clinical and scientific application, including patient history and best practice case studies. Data analysis using remote technologies are becoming efficient that they provide deeper understanding of medical problems and promotes quicker evaluation and more precise and reliable treatment by facilitating more informed decision-making.

 

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