BioVoice News October 2017 Issue 5 Volume 2 | Page 36

expert corner Of course, it would be wrong to say that a virtual app will completely replace physical doctor visits. It does however, enables better time management and ease of access a limiting factor. We overcome this by training not only clinician on our technology but also the clinic staff. Subsequently the onboarding and counselling of patient runs smooth. The second challenge is on the patient side, not all patients have smart phones but most of the patients we talk to are willing to use the app to manage 36 BioVoiceNews | October 2017 their condition better. We are now working on a SMS based method to engage with patients who do not have a smart phone. The third and most important challenge is financial incentives to deploy and leverage technology. Both the clinicians and patients should see enough value coming out of the app to use it at a mass scale. We think that an insurance system can unlock this value. The clinicians who are using the app and formulating an integrated plan to manage diabetes should be incentivized in a way that more patients should come to them as the approach will definitely yield better clinical outcomes. The patients should be incentivized with reduce year on year premium on insurance for managing their diabetes better. As I write, we are working with several insurance players to explore this opportunity. We think that by solving these three big hurdles we would be able to hasten the use of the LIC app and would be able to pass on the clinical benefits to the patients in a much faster way. The LifeInControl