The tech pilot will commence with testing for existing patients suffering, those who are at risk of developing diabetes – already diagnosed, pre diabetes and people with other comorbidities
Tech piloting agency Ease of Doing Business Division (EoDB) has opened applications for start-ups, Indian and global healthcare tech companies to provide their best technology, products and services (TPS) and play a major role in creating a system for affordable diabetes management and create an ecosystem of preventive healthcare for the rural population.
Abhijeet Sinha, National Program Director, Ease of Doing Business (EoDB)program said, “For early diagnosis and management of diabetes, applications are invited to showcase advanced TPS from innovators closely working in making diabetes management easy, accessible, safe and most importantly affordable for commercial pilot with high accuracy.”
Omar Sherief, Cluster Head India, Middle East & Africa, Roche Diabetes Care said, “This is a great initiative by EoDB towards diabetes screening, management and getting to the treatment level of large population. Partnering with like-minded players to design a comprehensive approach towards early diagnosis and management of the disease, improve accessibility to diabetes testing & care in rural areas is key. The pilot should involve partners who can design and execute a multi-pronged approach to enhance awareness about diabetes care and complement this by conducting diabetes screening camps in a phased manner throughout the country focussing in rural area with the help of Anganwadis. This would also require to upskill Front-Line Health Workers (FLHWs) to store and manage the data. The data generated through this pilot initiative of awareness and diabetes screening can provide valuable inputs and form the base for future public health policies for diabetes in our country”.
Jyoti Tiwari, Member-Healthcare Working Group, Ease of Doing Business added, “There are 800 million active users of smart phone in the country. The idea is to bring in an easy to use app based technology which can be used for glucose monitoring at home, eliminate the discomfort of travelling long distance for getting diabetes test done. Provisions like connecting the test result data to nearest healthcare centre, recommending lifestyle improvements, technology capable of answering nutritional queries by combining technological prowess and advice from professionals, suggests diet routines for better management and control of diabetes.”
Dr Sabine Kapasi, Member-Healthcare Working Group, Ease of Doing Business said, “The tech pilot will commence with testing for existing patients suffering, those who are at risk of developing diabetes – already diagnosed, pre diabetes and people with other comorbidities like hyperlipidaemia and hypertension and people who are at greater risk for developing diabetes because of genetic predisposition and a population study as a baseline for basic blood sugar level for everyone. The database generated at the end of the study will help to draft public health policies for diabetes in our country.”
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