Apollo
Hospitals Grouphost‘Futuring Cardiac Care Summit’ to foster discussions on
prevention and eradication of Heart Disease
~ Summit provides platform for stakeholders
to come together
and develop action steps~
and develop action steps~
Apollo Hospitals Group
hosted thefirst “Futuring Cardiac Care Summit” on 28th September in
Chennai. The summit provides insights and perspectives that have the potential
to transform the efforts towards prevention and eradication of heart disease.
Bringing together all stakeholders on a
single platform, the Futuring Cardiac Care Summit brought together key
partners, expert clinical consultants, prevention specialists and Apollo Hospitals’
leadership to develop targeted recommendations and specific action steps towards
reversing the epidemic of heart disease. The summit brought to the fore the
synergy between modern cardiac care delivery and technology adoption for a
disease free India.
Dr. Prathap C. Reddy,
Founder and Chairman, Apollo Hospitals Group,said,
“Cardiovascular disease is one of the major NCDs and the leading cause of death
with India having the highest burden of cardiovascular disease in the world. We
need to acknowledge this crisis and take urgent action to prevent and reverse
the rise in cardiovascular diseases. The Futuring Cardiac Care Summit is an
important step in this direction, and provides a platform to bring together the
physician and public health community to develop targeted recommendations and specific action steps. This summit is a beginning to initiate a systemic process for developing
possible outcomes and planning for the future. Apollo team, as a futurist
is willing to explore changes and innovate with you. Together, we will free
INDIA from cardiac disease!”
The two highlights of the summit were:
·
Apollo Hospitals Group sign MoU with Wellysis to set up joint venture in
Chitoor, Andhra Pradesh:
Apollo Hospitals Group and Wellysis a spinoff company of Samsung SDS
South Korea have signed anMoU to develop, manufacture and commercialise cardiac
wellness, diagnostic, monitoring and therapeutic devices, which would have a
positive impact on people across the world.
The joint venture will be set up in Chitoor, Andhra Pradesh. The MoU was
exchanged by Mr.Rick Hongryul Kim,
CTO/CMO & Co-Founder, Wellysis; and Dr.Hari
Prasad, Group President, Apollo Hospitals Group; in the august presence of Dr.Prathap C. Reddy, Chairman, Apollo
Hospitals Group.
·
Demonstration of Cardiac Command Centre:
The
demonstration of the Cardiac Command Centre with modern connected technologies
enabling Tele ECH Monitoring, CICU monitoring, Tele ECHO Monitoring ,Remote
Cathlab and ER Response Module. The Cardiac Command Centre will also have
facilities for training and development, and a management dashboard for
tracking and control. Over 40 such command centres are already live across
Apollo Hospitals Group. Any doctor across the country can register for the
Command Centre and gain access to the knowledge and experience of over 300 cardiologists
across Apollo Hospitals’ ecosystem.
Dr. Sangita Reddy, Joint Managing Director,
Apollo Hospitals Group, said, “There
has been a massive increase in deaths due to heart diseases in the last three
decades. Our country has only 4,000 cardiologists as compared to the 88,000
that we should ideally have. It is a huge gap to cover and the best way to
start covering this gap is through technology. The goal of this initiative is to
come together, witness, discuss and learn from each other new ways of
addressing cardiology. Robotics, AI, Tele-cardiology… these are some things we
know happening today. But do we experience how these innovations are
applied to our practice? How we can use and potentially leverage them to create
new innovations, processes, & future that we are not thinking today. We
hope this summit will help open-up such foresights and possibilities that will
lead to a cardiac disease free world. The Cardiac Command Centre with high end
screening tools along with the National Cardiac Registry will form the
foundation of the battle against cardiovascular diseases.”
“Aspects of the cardiovascular diseases
epidemic in India are particular causes of concern, including its accelerated
build-up, early age of disease onset in the population, and missing out on
cases due to misdiagnosis and under-reporting of CVD and the high case fatality
rate. The Cardiac Command Centreprovides a great opportunity to physicians in
Urban & Sub-urban settings, Standalone clinics/nursing homes,
National/State Medical Associations, Government Institutions, and New-Age
Start-ups in cardiovascular space to join this network and gain access to
knowledge and experience of over 300 cardiologists across the Apollo ecosystem
to save precious lives,” addedMs.
Preetha Reddy, Vice Chairperson, Apollo Hospitals Group.
AgimBeshiri, M.D., Senior Medical Director, Global Medical and
Scientific Affairs for Abbott's diagnostics business said,
“Abbott collaborates with likeminded partners to improve cardiac health
outcomes worldwide. We are pleased to work with Apollo to set up a national
cardiac registry that helps in assessing risk of cardiac events potentially
years in advance. Abbott’s life-changing technology has the potential to
transform how doctors identify those at risk for developing heart disease
because our diagnostic test uses a biomarker specific to the heart. We’d like
to congratulate Apollo Hospitals on building a powerful platform that combines
healthcare and various technological innovations that have the potential to
change the way cardiac diseases will be treated in future.”
“We are pleased to partner with Apollo
Hospitals for the FUTURING cardiac care. Together, we created a process to
connect a century old life-saving technology – ECG between patient, local
General practitioner, and an expert cardiologist at the Apollo Command Centre.
During our pilot run, we could guide 25000 patients from as far away as 2000 KM
from the centre during chest pain, guide general practitioners to provide
appropriate care to patients and provide timely support and intervention to
save 250 of them who were going through acute MI,” said S Ganesh Prasad, Managing
Director, GenWorks Health Pvt Ltd., a Wipro GE Healthcare invested company.
“At Genworks we believe that we have to build
a strong, connected eco-system – doctor at the point of care, patient,
specialist at super hospitals and technology can make it happen and save lives.
Our vision is to take technology and process as this to every physician in any
part of the country to be able to intervene in times of need and save lives,”addedGanesh
Prasad.
The Futuring Cardiac Care Summit, organised
with support from partners including GenWorks, Abbott and HealthNet
Global, is a one of kind platform with
an objective to eradicate the high risks of cardiovascular and its affinity
towards the future generations and finding integrated solutions to screen and
detect such complications in a more efficient way.
For more information about the Cardiac
Command Centre and the Futuring Cardiac Care Summit, log on to www.futuringcardiology.com
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