The solution enables both the doctor and the remote villager to have a meaningful interaction in three simple steps
In order to bridge the urban-rural divide for enhancing primary healthcare delivery, Pratibha Healthkon has replicated an ‘in-clinic’ experience remotely by coupling Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) with award-winning ASHA+ multi-vitals monitoring device.
Tarun Bhargava, Co-founder and Technical Advisor, Pratibha Healthkon said, “The solution enables both the doctor and the remote villager to have a meaningful interaction in three simple steps – firstly, capture past medical history, secondly measure current vitals and lastly a consultation using the HD quality video interaction that requires extremely low bandwidth which aligns with the currently available rural connectivity infrastructure. This interaction helps close the loop on consultation and follow up treatment.”
Pranay Garg, Founder and MD said, “Healthkon as a company envisions simplifiying primary healthcare delivery through a bottom-up approach, consequently connecting the entire healthcare system. Their solution connects Sub Centres (SC), the most peripheral points of contact in the existing public health system to the Primary Health Centres (PHC), that are manned by qualified doctors.”
A SC typically caters to a population of 5000 villagers in the plains and 3000 villagers in the hills. A PHC addresses upto five SCs thereby managing a population of 20-30,000 villagers as per existing guidelines. By connecting SCs to PHCs or other hubs where doctors are available, Healthkon’s platform delivers basic healthcare to the villages, rather than pushing them to physically go the distance to PHCs located many kilometres away.
Garg shared that Healthkon telemedicine platform integrated with ASHA+ devices, is currently deployed in Aurangabad Tehsil of Marathwada, Maharashtra through five sub centres covering more than 25,000 villagers. Seth Nandlal Dhoot Hospital positions itself as the hub that provides medical cover to these centres in a PPP arrangement with the Maharashtra government.
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