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How are Connected Health and Wearables Redesigning the Healthcare Industry? The IoT-empowered sensors have made it simpler and more productive than at any time in recent memory for our friends and family to guarantee that individuals with disabilities

By Kapil Chadha

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We are living in the age of healthcare devices and wearable or fitness trackers, where every step counts in the race of becoming healthier! And with the introduction of connected healthcare, maintaining a healthy lifestyle is cheaper, convenient, and efficient. For many of us, the smartphone has become extended life support in our lives. And with the help of technology, they are now helping us to live better and manage our health problems by equipping us with the right kind of tools. They have not only helped us connect better with our loved ones but also with our well-wishers (read doctors) to monitor our health at a tap of a button.

The Changed Environment

Over the past few years, emergency clinics, facilities, and other healthcare organizations have perceived the power of digitization in helping professionals treat patients in progressively effective, more affordable ways—all while creating better care results. As the need for value care gained more importance, it's pressure on healthcare pioneers to discover and convey the up and coming age of effective IT services innovation increased.

While earlier, these advancements involved products and services structured particularly for therapeutic situations; but as effective as they were, they were restricted to specific cases, such as operation theaters or ICUs. This left incalculable fields needing new advances to enable them to run more astute, work even more proficiently, and better serve patients. That is the reason, progressively, manufacturers are moving towards digitized customer advancements that we as of now utilize each day.

The Gadget World

The most pervasive gadgets in our homes and workplaces are gaining importance in the medical services field. Augmented reality is giving new, financially savvy, non-addictive treatment alternatives for patients with a wide scope of conditions. Tablets and IoT-empowered sensors are making it feasible for medical practitioners and consumers with needs to live more advantageous, progressively free lives. What's more, cell phones and wearable gadgets are streamlining the whole purpose of connected healthcare, by enabling us to become responsible for our own health.

The IoT-empowered sensors have made it simpler and more productive than at any time in recent memory for our friends and family to guarantee that individuals with disabilities can continue living ideally in a protected environment. Motion sensors that have been deliberately set in the room, restroom, kitchen, cupboards, and dining which can recognize continuous changes in standard action and empower proactive medication if a person's condition is worsening. Associated apparatuses, indoor regulators, and utilities can consequently advise care groups ahead of time of a possibly dangerous situation.

Innovation

Samsung has come up with innovative devices to provide medical supervision to senior patients. It has set up tablets that have the capacity to screen a patient's progressing healthcare with remote patient observing gadgets, for example, computerized weighing scales, pulse tracker, and glucometers. They additionally empower HIPAA-compatible video conferencing between the medical practitioner and patients. Smartwatches, on the other hand, offer patients an exceedingly suitable gadget with monitoring and emergency response options to screen the patient's location, movement, and even the battery life of the device.

Today, the most energizing and new medicinal services aren't any imaging machines or automated medical procedure frameworks, but several wearable and trackers with an effective claim. These devices are changing the outlook of healthcare and making it simpler, reasonable, and proficient for patients to get to their well being in a place with ways to address multiple issues at the comfort of their home.

Kapil Chadha

Co-Founder and Chairman - eExpedise Group

Kapil Chadha is the Co-Founder and Chairman of eExpedise Group and is one of the promoters of the firm. As Chairman and MD, he is tasked with designing the company growth and the expansion strategy along with assisting CEO Amit Sharma in strategy generation and development in the fields of healthcare and medical tourism. He also holds the key responsibility of managing the technological aspect of the business and works extensively on designing an ecosystem in the insurance domain, therefore eliminating the myth of single and standalone Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software application.

An alumnus of University of Pune, Kapil started working as a System Analyst upon pursuing his Masters in Computer Management (IT). He has had a rich experience in both the domains of technology as well as healthcare insurance and has held key roles such as that of Chief Manager (IT) at Reliance Life Insurance Company, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Mac Group in Tanzania, Africa, and Group CEO at E-Meditek TPA Services, among others. He has gained an expertise through 15 years of proven success in managing and developing projects, devising and implementing growth strategies for business performance optimization and process excellence, maximizing growth and developing profit centres. Working extensively with three startup life insurance and IT companies has also led to him becoming a strategic and innovative business leader with specialization in establishing startups.

A planner, strategist and implementer to his core, Kapil has driven improvements and set benchmarks in best practices in varying work environments, displaying his ability to lead teams and establishing partnerships and relations with the key players of the industry. Along with spearheading the group, Kapil is presently working on incorporating recent technological interventions of data science such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) in the insurance sector, therefore working extensively on automation of the entire process.

A seasoned player in his domains, Kapil has also filed two patents alongside Amit namely ‘A System and Method for Real Time Assessment of Wellness and Health Insurance’ in the insurance domain and ‘A System and Method for any time Medical Assistance and Advisory’ in medical tourism. Upon a close observation of the gradual growth of both domestic as well as international healthcare and insurance industries and the huge gap in both the domains’ delivery systems and processes, Kapil envisions eExpedise as the company that will launch various innovative digital platforms for insurance, medical tourism and wellness tourism industries along with marking its presence in more countries across the GCC, Asia, CIS and Pacific.   

Kapil also has an article named ‘In Search of Real Time Solution’ attributed to him which was published in the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) journal in 2010. When not managing projects and devising strategies, Kapil likes to spend quality time with his wife and children.

 

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