Another highlight of the conference,
the session on Advances in Diagnostics,
brought the top industry leaders
together sharing their vision about
the health sector and also showcasing
promising start-ups and technologies.
The panel represents various industry
working in cutting edge research in
radiology and diagnostics areas from
India and Sweden.
Aligning to its broader aim of bringing out
innovations in healthcare and to celebrate
and encourage innovation particularly in
the healthcare sector, InnoHEALTH was
back with the third segment of Young
Innovators Award 2018. Out of 200+
nominations, the 5 most innovative
nominations were called to present in
front of a jury with a perfect blend of
stakeholders of healthcare industry like
investors, policymakers, academic and
research experts and medical experts. The Ultimate Solution for all Non-
Communicable Diseases - a discussion
which followed the inspiring meditation
session, The Divine Google to Health and
Happiness, by an Emeritus Scientist Dr.
Satish Kumar Gupta, giving a platform
to showcase the 3-dimensional approach
to healthcare. Dr. Kumar, a renowned
personality, has been awarded the Shanti
Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science
and Technology for his contribution to
medical sciences.
S Venkat Saketh is a graduate in
mechanical engineering from Anna
University. He is currently working
as a business analyst with MixORG
consulting Pvt Ltd.
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their innovations, the underlying
concept was to empower these budding
innovative companies with right advise
and linkages. Some of the top experts
from Indian health sector shared their
feedback on how the companies should
work on their India market strategy.
under the initiative.A few sessions were
dedicated towards universal health
coverage and insurance led innovations.
Recent policy aiming at Universal Health
Coverage, launch of Ayushman Bharat
by the Ministry of AYUSH were some of
the key discussions in these sessions.
The conference concluded on a note
of the paradigm shift of healthcare
technological advances. Healthcare
delivery
optimization,
non-
communicable disease prevention,
equitable access to health services and
innovations were considered the broad
strands on which the sessions were
structured. But some specific areas of
major concern such as Digital health,
Make in India opportunities, EU-India
collaboration, access and quality of care
were also subject to in-depth analysis
during the conference. Once again,
the content richness and the high-
level networking opportunity was the
limelight of the conference.
During the session on Digital Health
- giving birth to new delivery models
through Mobile, IoT, Blockchain and
Artificial Intelligence, the panelists
discussed the topic of digital in three
different contexts; policy-makers, IT,
Hospitals to an insurance marketplace.
InnoHEALTH 2018 brought together
representatives from seven countries on
a single platform for a panel discussion
on EU-India collaboration in the
Health Sector, start-up opportunities
and challenges, providing insights on
market development in India, including
examples of reverse innovations from
India to Europe and back along with
legal and IPR challenges.
The first prize was bagged by the team
which represented the excerpt of
innovation in LIFEBOXby DevalKaria
and Rohit S Nambiar. The second was
bagged by Abhishek Venkataram and
SanidhyaRasiwasia for the innovation
in surgical navigation system named
NAVI. Dhananjay KVN who presented
his innovation on voxel base analysis for
Pediatric Brain Mappingbagged the third
prize. The prize money was sponsored
by InnoHEALTH.
As the young
innovators got the chance to showcase
One such session was on the topic of
Innovations for Hospitalsin which the
speakers reflected on different aspects
of innovations,stressed on scaling-up of
innovations. Chris Lloyd in his keynote
address specified the need of bridging
the gap between resources and patient
needs, emphasized on taking-up the
Singaporean model as the master plan.
Another interesting session was on Make
in Indiaopportunities which emphasized
on the issue of manufacturing medical
devices in India highlighting the immense
possibilities alongwith the hurdles
SHOUT OUT TO ALL THE STAKEHOLDERS OF THE
HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY: SAVE THE DATE FOR
INNOHEALTH 2019 - OCTOBER 11-12, 2019, NEW DELHI.
The conference included series of
structured
panel
discussionswith
stakeholders and experts in the fields of
health facilitating the discussions.