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Lupin Digital Health planning India's largest study on impact of digital therapeutics on cardiac rehab

Lupin Digital Health planning India's largest study on impact of digital therapeutics on cardiac rehab | Healthcare in India | Scoop.it

The CEO, of Lupin Digital Health, Sidharth Srinivasan, spoke with ETHealthworld. about how the perception of cardiac rehab is witnessing a significant shift. He spoke about the major insights and adoption trends registered over one year since the launch of their digital therapeutic platform Lupin's Lyfe. 

 

Summarizing their talk, he mentioned that the program has grown in 3 ways:

 

1. the acceptance of digital interventions has increased in the cardiology community. Over 700 cardiologists across 20 cities actively prescribe Lupin’s LYFE, our digital therapeutics, and more than 90 per cent of patients are satisfied with the service.

 

2.  conducted and published real-world evidence studies, including two trials and two consensus statements.

 

3. LDH has been able to reach out to patients, with around 5000 patients signing up for months of rehab.

 

His comments also shed light on some of their plans for the the future which included plans to conduct India's largest digital therapeutic study, involving around 1000 patients, to comprehensively showcase the impact of digital therapeutics on cardiac rehab.

 

He mentioned that Lupin was actively utilising technology to simplify backend processes, among which was the use of AI to analyse patient reports.

 

 

read the entire unedited version of interaction here: https://health.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/pharma/pharma-industry/lupin-digital-health-planning-indias-largest-study-on-impact-of-digital-therapeutics-on-cardiac-rehab/108653359

 

 

nrip's insight:

Digital health in India is increasing. But this specific case interested me a lot as its about the use of Digital Health via a pharmaceutical company within India. That's a big change from years ago. I still think there is a long way to go. They still seem to be thinking of Digital as primarily a marketing medium or an enable-ment engine rather than a way of practicing healthcare. But the wheels seem to be moving forward.

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Docs use WhatsApp to save heart patients

Docs use WhatsApp to save heart patients | Healthcare in India | Scoop.it

Doctors at KEM Hospital have turned to the most ubiquitous personal technology - the smartphone - to speed up diagnosis of patients with suspected heart complications. 

They have started using the popular smartphone messenger 'WhatsApp' to send pictures of patients' electrocardiograms (ECG) to each other for a quick review, saving time spent on reaching the emergency ward and checking the actual report. 

The approach enables them to begin the treatment of a person who has suffered a heart attack within the crucial golden hour, the period when emergency care is most likely to be successful. Delay in proper diagnosis and treatment during this period results in amajority of cardiac fatalities. 

In fact, over 60 per cent of patients who have suffered a heart attack reach the hospital way beyond the golden hour, the average being about five hours. So every moment they spend waiting for the doctor to arrive and study their ECG increases the risks. 

"The moment a patient walks in here complaining of chest pain or any other related problem, a specialist takes out an ECG and sends the image to the doctors on hand," said Dr Prafulla Kerkar, head of KEM's cardiology department. "We, in fact, have a WhatsApp group where the experts in our department are signed in." 


more at http://www.mumbaimirror.com/mumbai/others/Docs-use-WhatsApp-to-save-heart-patients/articleshow/27252815.cms

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Top 5 Cardiac Care Hospitals in India

Top 5 Cardiac Care Hospitals in India | Healthcare in India | Scoop.it


Heart diseases are one of the leading causes of death in India. 80 per cent of the Indian population succumbs to a heart problem. If you are running helter-skelter for the best heart hospitals in India, ‘check-in’ either of these top cardiac care hospitals in India.


more at http://www.indiatimes.com/lifestyle/health-and-fitness/top-5-cardiac-care-hospitals-in-india-154043.html