Mumbai: New instance of leveraging technology to enhance patient care experience. This comes from Pune. City’s Symbiosis University Hospital and Research Centre (SUHRC) has partnered with Atos and Huma, the digital health innovator. SUHRC patients are now starting to receive the latest medical care with a new remote patient monitoring system which uses smartphone technology, a pulse oximeter and includes a portal for clinicians. This ‘hospital at home’ will allow the SUHRC to expand its capacity by around 40-60%.
“This symbiotic industry-academia partnership will help us deploy technology to provide healthcare services to patients in and around Pune. This will be in line with the National agenda as envisioned in the National Digital Health Mission (NDHM) for India.” said Dr Rajiv Yeravdekar, Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences, SIU. “India had a large COVID-19 caseload but has a limited awareness on post-COVID care monitoring. We still need to learn more about this disease and its long and devastating impact on people. Monitoring a large volume of patients will help us identify those in need of immediate care.”
Key features of the ‘hospital at home’ include an around-the-clock medical command center staffed by SUHRC clinicians and an integrated care team at SUHRC that delivers in-person care to patients who need to be admitted.
Robert Vassoyan, Head of Healthcare and Lifescience, Atos, said: ‘Digital technology has proven to be a vital resource in the fight against COVID-19 and as a digital leader, we are proud to be able to help patients and frontline workers together.’
On the other hand, Dan Vahdat, CEO and Founder of Huma, said: ‘We want to make a difference for the people of Pune, with our fast-to-deploy technology, combined with Atos’ proven ability to deliver complex projects and SUHRC’s expertise in providing healthcare to citizens in and around Pune.’
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