mhealth and inclusive innovation in india
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HealthCursor Consulting Group India- Distribution and Marketing- Mobile network operators in Africa have identified the growing demand for financial services and micro insurance . Airtel Africa has partnered with MicroEnsure for Mobile Micro Insurance. The range of Airtel-branded insurance products includes life, accident, health, agriculture, and other forms of cover. Connecting intermediaries, customers and surveyors- ICICI Lombard India's mobile initiative started simply enough, with a set of basic applications that gave customers a consolidated view of all their policies, a reminder service to renew a policy, and a way to track the status of a claim. But as they matured with the mobile platform, they re-visited the paradigm and devised new ways to provide customers with more value-added and user-friendly features. This is however restricted to Auto insurance only. Encryption, Transactions and handling customer grievance- Public sector general insurance company United India Insurance launched a mobile-based real-time fund transfer facility for payment of premium. M-Power enables customers to renew their policies and also remit the premium for approved proposals. To use this facility, one has to get an MMID (an identification number called - mobile money identifier) from his/her bank and enable one’s mobile with the application given by the bank. However, there are only 10 banks on board with this platform. This initiative follows the launch of its Internet-based sales, customer grievance portal and information-cum-sales kiosks. Sales, awareness and providing access- Bima, a young Swedish microinsurance company, is using mobile phones to sell as many as three billion new insurance policies to the global poor. Bima, that has begun to access this untapped market, is now one of the largest mobile insurance platforms in the world. In just three years, Bima has acquired 4 million clients in Africa and Asia and is adding 400,000 new subscribers per month. Bima has been tackling many of the obstacles—education, pricing, premium collection—that prevent poor people from obtaining such benefits. For instance, Bima products such as life, accident and health insurance cost "as little as $0.20 to $6.00 a month. Last month, Leapfrog invested $4.25 million in Bima, which will allow the company to expand even further within Africa and Asia as well as reach into new markets in Latin America.TRANSCRIPT
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HEALTHCURSOR CONSULTING GROUP
“Inclusive Innovation and Growth:-” Dr. Ruchi
Dass
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Table of Contents
1 Background
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Innovation- As we define it in Healthcare
Turning Point- Opportunities & Market Readiness
Policy- FRAMEWORK for Inclusive growth
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The Indian Healthcare Divide
• India has 17% of the world's population
• Poorest healthcare infrastructure among growing
economies
• Healthcare accounts for only ~5% of GDP
• Healthcare Delivery Market in India ~ US$ 60 billion in 2010
• Healthcare market expected to grow at CAGR of 15%
• Accessible, reliable and affordable healthcare continues to
be a challenge
• Significant supply deficit
• Growing middle class with rising income levels , health
awareness
1.3 0.71.5
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Bed Doctors Nurses
Existing Required (2010) Required (2020)
Indian Healthcare Capacity Shortfall (in mn)
15% CAGR
Indian Healthcare Market Growth
Source: Public Research
Source: Public Sources, Technopak Analysis
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Ageing Population and Chronic Care management
No. of Years Chronic Care
Disease Patients
Social Class Less than 7
Years
More than 7
years
Total
High 24 12 36
Middle 18 11 29
Low 7 13 20
Very Low 12 12 24
TOTAL 61 48 109
Percentage (56%) (44%)
Source: Health services utilisation in urban India: a study By C. A. K. Yesudian
Out of pocket expenditure is more than 80%
Rising demand for medical services and timely medical intervention
Need for measures to provide health specialists’ access anytime anywhere
and not only at the point of care
Health Services Utilization
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Ageing Population and Chronic Care management
Resource Constraints
Call a Doctor/ Second OpinionPatient education and Health
TipsHome health and Remote
monitoringTele-Diagnosis and e-
prescription
Supply Problems
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•There is 1 doctor per 1000 people in India.
•Most of India’s estimated 1.2 billion people have to payfor medical treatment out of their own pockets (That ismore than 80% of the total health expenditure as per2011 stats).
•Less than 15% of the population in India today has anykind of health-care cover, be it community insurance,employers’ expenditure, social insurance etc.
•Over 72% (that would be over 620 million) of India’spopulation lives in its 638,588 villages.
•It is hard to believe but in India, a common man is mostindebted to healthcare after dowry.
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Ageing Population and Chronic Care management
Resource Constraints Patient Empowerment
With increasing Internet and mobilebroadband access, available in-depthinformation on medical conditionsand their treatment has enhancedpatients’ knowledge, generating anincreasingly consumerist attitudetoward medicine and higherexpectations regarding treatment.
Empowerment
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Ageing Population and Chronic Care management
Resource Constraints Patient Empowerment Integrated Care
• In the face of the enormous challenges of managing chronic diseases, delivery innovations appear to have the most impact whenmultiple parties (e.g., physicians, nurses, payors) interact seamlessly to provide the best possible patient care over an extendedperiod of time.
• Such integrated models have the potential to reduce costs dramatically, while increasing patient satisfaction and clinical quality.
Integrated care
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Health Innovation ecosystem in INDIA
Operators/Distributors Solution Providers
Healthcare Providers
Government /Regulators
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... are regulated and funded by ...
… provide platform to and partner with …
.. fund and regulate ...
Implemented remote monitoring solution
Medical data management
Remote monitoring solution
Digitization of health records
..several others….
Sharing of medical images
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Opportunities
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Technology Vs Usability Innovation
Source: PSFK
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Episodic care Vs Continuum of care
Source: PSFK
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Healthcare & surveillance
Source: PSFK
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Table of Contents
1 Background
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Innovation- As we define it in Healthcare
Turning Point- Opportunities & Market Readiness
Policy- FRAMEWORK for Inclusive growth
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Innovation Strategy
Platform Inclusion Ecosystem Drivers Discourse
Innovation Strategy- From the Books
Innovation Strategy- From the Ground
Creation Protection Exploitation
Innovation Defined- For a Country like India
Meaningful= Design Driven
Disruptive = Technology
driven
Incremental= User Centric = Market driven
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Design Driven Innovation
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Design Driven Innovation
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Innovation Budgets
Innovation budgets of the main government departments and agencies
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Innovation brings economic growth
“India is an entrepreneurial country, but itsentrepreneurs have had to struggle to create andgrow their business ventures. There is, however, agrowing group of first-generation Indianentrepreneurs – the founders of companies such asHCL, Cognizant, Infosys, Bharti and others that havegenerated large scale employment and significantwealth. They and others such as IndiaBulls,Makemytrip and Naukri have also demonstratedvalue creation through a public listing. Thesesuccesses have encouraged a new breed ofentrepreneurs especially in the internet and e-commerce space.
India has the potential to build about 2,500 highlyscalable businesses in the next 10 years – and giventhe probability of entrepreneurial success that means10,000 start-ups will need to be spawned to get to2,500 large-scale businesses. These businessescould generate revenues of Rs10 lakh crore ($200billion)”
Moreover, entrepreneurship tends to be innovation-driven and will also help generate solutions to India’s myriad social problems including high-quality education, affordab le health care, clean energy and waste management, and financial inclusion. Entrepreneurship-led economic growth is also more inclusive and typically does not involve exploitation of natural resources.
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Table of Contents
1 Background
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Innovation- As we define it in Healthcare
Turning Point- Opportunities & Market Readiness
Policy- FRAMEWORK for Inclusive growth
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Application of usable innovation
Health Awareness and Education- Existing health content could be aggregated, filtered and indexed, under the guidance of global domain experts and made available on IVR, mobile devices
and tablets like “Aakash”.
Said innovation will help achieve &:
1. Assist India with meeting the MDGs by providing support to the social sectors; WHO says thatIndia will fail to achieve some of the most important Millennium Development Goal (MDG)targets like reduction in maternal and child deaths, and increase in child immunization rates by2015.
2. Solve the economic implications related to the burden of NCDs in the country- In 2004, 4.8million (59.4 percent) of the estimated 8.1 million Indian deaths were due to NCDs. A 2011study shows that about 25% of families with a member with CVD and 50% with cancerexperience catastrophic expenditure and 10% and 25%, respectively, are driven to poverty.
3. Help ASHA/ Aanganbadi workers stay connected to useful resources at the time of need.- Theinformation challenges facing health workers include lack of routine systems for seeking andsharing information, lack of high-quality and current health information, and lack of locallyrelevant materials and tools. Without such basic information, the provision of quality servicesby health workers, the effective management of programs, and the use of evidence toformulate health policy all suffer. This information deficit contributes to poor health outcomes,including increased morbidity and mortality.
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Case Study 1: Health Awareness and Education- Existing health content could be aggregated, filtered and indexed, under the guidance of global domain experts and made available on IVR, mobile devices and tablets like “Aakash”
Mediphone Process
Technology Providers
Solution Provider
HealthcareProviders
Regulators1
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Medical Organizations
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Success Factors
� Mediphone has the capability to scale up on several platforms and can work seamlessly on Landline, Mobile and Internet. The service can be provided in regional languages as well.
� Mediphone can also be supplemented with a health classifieds service that will further enhance the call flow. � Mediphone will also act as a platform to browse and buy Health related packages from several providers.� Currently Mediphone is handling more than 1500 calls per day and will soon start Hospitals referrals, Appointment
scheduling and emergency management 24X7.
MobileIVR
System
Patient Profile
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Decision support Tele-Triagesystem
Airtel Subscribers
Patients
• Call helpline
•Ask questions on
health-related
problems
•Describe an ailment
Community workers
•Visit families
periodically
•Are on call for serious
ailments
•Connect villagers with
call center
•Promote awareness
•Educate
•Deliver medications
Call center agents
Receive incoming
calls and
triage to
– Physicians
– Nurses
– Educators
– Field workers
Place outgoing calls
to
– Follow up on
patients
– Monitor
community worker
performance
Physicians in call
centers
•Speak with patients
•Conduct interviews;
use images and videos
if required
•Make a diagnosis
•Recommend
treatment including
medications,
educational advice
•Refer to agent to
coordinate medication
delivery and follow-up
Case Study- INDIA
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Application of usable Innovation
Crowd-sourcing Healthcare- provide an opportunity for scientists, doctors, technocrats, students
and others with diverse expertise to work for a common cause.
Said innovation will help achieve &:
1. Drug Discovery- Crowd-sourcing will help assist India with controlling morbidity of Tropicaldiseases by providing a global platform where the best minds can collaborate & collectivelyendeavour to solve the complex problems associated with discovering novel therapies forneglected tropical diseases like Malaria, Tuberculosis, Leshmaniasis, etc. Drug discovery can bemade successful by pulling together informaticians, wet lab scientists, contract researchorganizations, clinicians, hospitals and others who are willing to adhere to the affordablehealthcare philosophy.
2. Best Practices- Sharing best practices in solving some of the most complex issues around NCDsand related complications in the country. Take an example of Multiple sclerosis- It is verydifficult to prognosticate effectively for MS patients. Some individuals have a very benigncourse and/or respond well to treatment, whereas others become rapidly disabled withinseveral years of diagnosis. Sharing of best practices related to treatment, prognosis and followup can hence lead to success.
3. Clinical Trials- Governments and public funded institutions in the countries with high burden ofdisease has a responsibility to contribute to the drug development. The cost of trials cantherefore be brought down considerably on a platform which is crowd-sourced and open.
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Case Study 2: The Webicina- "Webicina," a site where medicine combines with social media to allow physicians within the country as well as across the world to communicate their findings easily, quickly and effectively.
Webicina Components
Medical Resources
System
HealthcareProviders
Social Media1
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Medical Organizations
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Success Factors
� Webicina has the capability to scale up on several platforms and can work seamlessly on KPO/IVR, Landline, Mobile and Internet. The service can be provided in regional languages as well.
Integrated Platform-
Mobile App/ Web 2.0
Patient Profile
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Personalized SearchDrug DiscoverySecond Opinion
Empowered Patients and providers
Case Study- Hungary
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Major Players
Players ExamplesDefinition
Regulators Medical regulatory authorities such as FDA, HIPAA etc
HealthcareProviders
Individuals or institution s providing health car e services
Fitness Providers General fitness providers and diet clinics
Application Developers
Independent medical / mobile Software developers
Data Management Medical information providers
Health Device Manufactures
Manufacturers of sensors that interface with application on mobile phones
Medical Organizations
Medical education & research institutions, publishers, pharmaceutical companies and pharmacies
Network Providers Wireless data network providers
MobileManufacturers Smartphone and feature phone manufacturers
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Table of Contents
1 Background
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Innovation- As we define it in Healthcare
Turning Point- Opportunities & Market Readiness
Policy- FRAMEWORK for Inclusive growth
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Areas of Policy making
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Innovation
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Digital Health Efforts- Collaboration areas
Health Information systems-
CHIS- India will also put in place a Citizen Health Information System (CHIS) - a biometric based health
information system which will constantly update health record of every citizen-family. The system will
incorporate registration of births, deaths and cause of death.
Surveillance- Maternal and infant death reviews, nutrition surveillance, particularly among under-six
children and women, service delivery in the public health system, hospital information service besides
improving access of public to their own health information and medical records would be the primary
function of this effort. Placed on a GIS platform, it can identify geographic concentration of disease.
Medical Records- The system will also provide hospital information service to improve the quality of
care to patients through electronic medical records, to lower response time in emergency and improve
hospital administration. It will support emergency response systems and referral transport
arrangements, the organ retrieval and transplantation programme.
Resource Mobilisation- The system will also support financial management -- from resource allocation,
resource transfers, accounting and utilization to financial services like making of payments to facilities,
providers and beneficiaries. It will provide a platform for continuing medical education and support
regulatory functions of the state by creating a nation-wide registration of clinical establishments,
manufacturing units, drug testing laboratories, licensing of drugs, approval of clinical trials
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Approach and Innovation
The major part of public investment in information technology in health care
would go to institutional capacity building for understanding and use of
information.
Incurring large expenditures on hardware and software without making a
matching input in capacity development and institutionalization can be an error.
Every state should have the skilled human resources needed at state and district
level. This would require a mix of those with IT skills and public health informatics
skills.
State centres for health information, either standalone, or embedded in existing
institutions would be essential and district teams of three to five persons for
managing information flows and interpreting information would also be essential.
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Lessons learned
•The future of Healthcare innovation requires accessing and managing distributed
networks of knowledge providers.
•Health/Biomedical research infrastructures need to be accessible, high quality and
sustainably financed.
•The intellectual property landscape should evolve to better leverage strategic intangible
assets.
•New research and business models are needed to meet economic and public health
objectives.
•Intellectual Asset Valuation could facilitate trade in the under –exploited knowledge assets
of the Healthcare/Biomedical sector.
•Regulatory evolution, in consultation with industry, is critical to ensure the development
and diffusion of breakthrough biomedical technologies and the innovative use of existing
technologies.
•End users of new biomedical technologies have an increasingly strong impact on
innovators and public policy.
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Challenges
There remain a number of outstanding questions
with reference to the development, delivery, and
uptake of health innovations where further
research might be pursued in order to help
inform policymaking.
The thematic areas for possible future work
include:
1. Progress in governance and the regulatory
system.
2. Open innovation models in health.
3. Commercialisation of innovation derived
from research and health infrastructures.
4. Financing models for health innovation.
5. Intellectual asset management.
6. Patient needs and demands.
7. Metrics and indicators of health innovation.
8. Policy challenges of disruptive technologies.
Development
Delivery
Uptake
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