health challenge details

Challenge #1

Diagnostics for rural India

The penetration of diagnostic services in India is mainly concentrated around metros and big cities. In rural India, the access to healthcare is restricted to primary health centres catering just the basic healthcare services. Typical health problems in rural India are related to nutritional deficiencies, lack of maternal and perinatal condition support, common occurrence of communicable diseases such as malaria, diarrhea, tuberculosis, and respiratory diseases. Shortage of hygiene infrastructure, lack of awareness, limited access to facilities, lack of trained medical personnel, dearth of medicines and good doctors are the key challenges faced by more than 70 percent of India’s population living in rural areas today.

The India-Israel Bridge is seeking “low fidelity, high frequency” solutions for diagnostics in rural India. The solutions will focus on cheap, low fidelity hardware that can capture recurring diagnostic data at a high frequency, and use machine learning and algorithmic data manipulation to accurately diagnose and predict conditions.

澄清性評論不適用於網站：這裡的關鍵技術是缺乏「低成本、智慧、可靠、互聯」的設備，以解決這群人無法獲得負擔得起的醫療保健的問題. 設備的「智慧」功能應能輕鬆培訓農村地區的「低技能」資源，而「連接」功能則應幫助他們聯繫一線和二線城市的專家 .

Challenge #2

非傳染性疾病

Every year, roughly 5.8 million Indians die from heart and lung diseases, stroke, cancer and diabetes. In other words, 1 in 4 Indians risks dying from an Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) before they reach the age of 70. India stands to incur a loss of $4.58 trillion between 2012 and 2030 due to NCDs.

印度面臨非傳染性疾病帶來的人類和經濟威脅. 據估計，心血管疾病、癌症、慢性呼吸道疾病、糖尿病和其他非傳染性疾病佔印度所有死亡人數的 60%，成為印度最大的死亡原因，超過傷害、傳染病、孕產婦、產前和營養狀況. 此外，非傳染性疾病約佔所有住院人數的 40%，約佔所有記錄在案的門診人數的 35%。.

NCDs are caused, in part, by underlying, modifiable risk factors. The major risk factors for NCDs in India are tobacco use, harmful use of alcohol, lack of physical activity, and a poor diet.

Poor compliance to diet and to drug regimens, lack of exercise, unhealthy living standards and medical therapy in patients with NCD increase the risk of complications and death.

We are seeking high quality, innovative solutions that are affordable, accessible and sustainable, focusing on constant and real time health monitoring, home care, remote care, periodic counseling and advice on health management. This needs to take into account the existing technology and infrastructure in India, demand creation and service delivery.

Clarifying Remarks not for website: Fundamentally the challenge here is to move from a Reactive healthcare system to Preventive Healthcare system which will require “Affordable” & “Smart” ,devices for Screening of critical parameters on an a periodical manner and “Intelligent Alert systems” to patients, care givers and experts in case of a warning episode with the Patient.