Health 2.0 Mumbai Chapter Meet-up
As they say 'Be the change you want to see', this was the motto behind an informal and unconventional setting that marked the commencement of the recent meet-up of Health 2.0 Mumbai chapter held on 23rd August 2013.
- (1888PressRelease) September 04, 2013 - Health 2.0 a global entity, has been providing a common platform to promote and harbor innovations and ideas for improving healthcare. Being true to the Health 2.0 global culture, the meet up captured in its essence novel health ideas and health innovations to discuss patient-centered healthcare through the use of digital & social media and leveraging technology.
Organised by Dinesh Chindarkar, Health 2.0 Mumbai Chapter leader, the event was attended by professionals from pharma, healthcare, IT, diagnostics etc. James Mathews, Chairman - Health 2.0 India, spoke about how Health 2.0 is evolving in the country and making difference in patient's lives across India's population from rich to the poor. Amrita Naimpally, Global Business Development Lead at Medtronics, mentioned that the main goal of healthcare is to empower patients and described in details about their Adivasi initiatives which they are conducting.
Mr. Ravi Desai CMO, Metropolis Lab - one of the largest chains of diagnostic labs in the country, expressed the need of diagnostics to emerge as a strong pillar for healthcare in India. He also proposed on thoughts on implementing preventive healthcare in India. This was followed by panel discussion by delegates from across the healthcare industry - Mr. Salil Kallianpur from GSK, Dr. Malpani MD at H.E.L.P., Mrs. Priti Mohile from Mediamedic Communications and Erin Little, Founder - Sucre Blue gave the audience a varied perspective on preventive healthcare and connected the varied dots within.
Shreekant Pawar, co-founder Farasbee & Dr. Yogesh Patil co-founder of Biosense- demonstrated their start up product - Diabeto & uCheck respectively. 'Diabeto' - is a device which helps connect glucometers to smart phones and relay data; whereas uCheck does urine analysis on 10 different parameters. Both being interesting ventures to empower patients in taking care of their health.
A lot of interaction with the audience made the Health 2.0 Mumbai chapter meet-up a productive one; that will help the community to grow rapidly and provide unique solutions to the changing healthcare scenario within India.
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The conference. The media network. The innovation community. The Health 2.0 Conference is the leading showcase of cutting-edge innovation transforming the health care system and is the premiere platform connecting IT innovators to established health care providers. Health 2.0 covers the broadest spectrum of the technology revolution that is shaking up every sector of health care. Learn more at www.health2con.com. Get more updates on the Mumbai chapter at http://www.facebook.com/Health2.0Mumbai.
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