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Karnataka and the Netherlands are collaborating to accelerate the adoption of AI-driven healthtech in government hospitals. The partnership is to maximise the advanced technologies to improve patient outcomes, enhance diagnostics, streamline hospital operations, and optimize resources.
A key focus is to establish an Innovation Bridge anchored by the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms (C-CAMP). This would enable collaborative knowledge exchange.
AI can help in early disease detection through advanced imaging and predictive analytics. Such models can analyze medical data such as radiographs, MRIs, and CT scans faster and more accurately than traditional methods, potentially reducing human error. By analysing a vast amount of data from different sources, AI can provide personalized treatment suggestions tailored to each patient's needs.
There is efficiency and automation as AI tools streamline administrative tasks, such as patient scheduling, billing, and records management. This frees up healthcare professionals to focus more on patient care and clinical decision-making. There is resource optimization helping to predict patient flow and optimize bed availability, staffing, and inventory management, which is especially crucial in public hospitals with large volumes of patients.
With both Karnataka and the Netherlands involved, there is a significant opportunity for cross-border knowledge exchange. The Netherlands, known for its advanced healthcare systems and AI-driven innovations, can bring expertise and proven solutions to Karnataka which provides a real-world, large-scale testing ground for such technologies. Also AI-driven healthtech in hospitals will require secure data handling. Both regions will need to focus on ensuring that patient data is kept safe and is compliant with regulatory standards like GDPR (for the Netherlands) and India’s data protection laws.
For successful AI integration, training healthcare professionals in both technical and operational aspects of AI tools will be crucial. Karnataka could look at setting up AI-focused training programmes for doctors, nurses, and hospital staff to ensure that they can make the most of this new technology.
In this regard a delegation from the Dutch Ministry of Health visited C-CAMP to explore potential collaborations in AI-powered health-tech and pharma innovation.
Barbara Goezinne, director general, Curative Care, Department of Healthcare, Netherlands expressed interest in deploying AI based healthtech solutions already active in India Their discussions centred around remote medicine, telemedicine, medical diagnostics ad AI powered drug development.
Also at C-CAMP innovators at its incubation facility like Cardia Design Labs displayed a wearable patch for arrhythmia detection with all components made in India and holds a CE certification. The other was a blood pressure monitor to track trends of hypertension and is currently used in ICUs across hospitals.
Several digital health innovation systems supported by C-CAMP have been integrated into the Karnataka a public health system enhancing services in ophthalmology, maternal and child care immunisation and remote patient monitoring, noted state health and family welfare minister Dinesh Gundu Rao.
The state government has been working with C-CAMP to develop and scale impactful innovations. There is a need to collaborate and get the best for the state, he added.
Dr Taslimarif, Saiyed, CEO and director, C-CAMP highlighted the Netherland delegation’s interest in the institution’s work which includes more than 80 AI-enabled healthcare solutions ready for large scale deployment. One of our translational research projects for sepsis was licenced to a Dutch Biotech firm Survivex over a year ago. We also have ongoing collaborations with Dutch institutions such as Utrecht and Leiden, as well as industry partners, he said.
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