“A Mobile-First approach will unlock the true potential of tech in healthcare”

Unlike any other industry, the healthcare industry is the ideal industry for digital disruption, because this is the one industry that truly runs on data. It’s quite surprising that 95 per cent of the unwell people do not need surgery or any complex medical intervention.

- Soma Tah

The decision to treat them is based only on their medical history or by interpreting the data from various medical equipment. Hence, they can be treated remotely too.

“Thanks to the ISRO satellite, I treated patients in remote locations of India and the African countries, from my office in Bangalore, even before telehealth became popular and our country could make all this happen. We are living in a country that is blessed with exceptionally skilled software engineers who can create amazing products. It’s just that the medical professionals like us should have the patience to sit with them, understand, and ask them how they can help us to improve our day to day life with the patients,” said Dr Devi Prasad Shetty, Founder & Chairman, Narayana Health during a fireside chat in the PCQuest HealthTech Forum on the topic, ‘The future of Indian HealthTech’.

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