Modern telemedicine options demoed by startups throughout HIMSS22 APAC

5 startups based mostly in APAC took the stage throughout the HIMSS22 APAC Convention this yr within the hopes of gaining additional traction for his or her companies.  

The Digital Innovation Showcase, organised by Zoom and HIMSS, required startups to supply options that leveraged video or video conferencing.

The winner of the Showcase could be recognised throughout the HIMSS APAC Awards Dinner together with the chance to have a 30-minute name with Brendan Ittelson, Chief Expertise Officer of Zoom. 

Judging the Showcase was a panel of six: Benjamin Lim, APAC Chief, ISV Platform Enterprise Improvement, Zoom; Benedict Tan, Group Chief Digital Technique Officer, SingHealth; Dr Tullawat Pacharapha, Chief Working Officer, Vejthani Hospital; Jennie Kung, Senior Director, Mayo Clinic Innovation Change; Mohammad Adib Khumaidi, Chairman, Indonesian Medical Affiliation; and Dr Dhesi Raja, Board Member, Malaysia Digital Economic system Company. 

The session was moderated by Bruce Steinberg, Managing Director and Head, HIMSS Worldwide. 

Smartfuture’s white-label telehealth platform

Jignesh Bhuta, Chief Working Officer of Smartfuture first offered his startup’s affected person app and physician portal. He shared that when sufferers have keyed of their particulars on the app and chosen their signs, they are going to be delivered to a web page the place they will choose a tool used to measure their vitals. 

“We have built-in [around 400] medical gadgets throughout varied manufacturers, capturing over 31 vitals, which incorporates each intermittent in addition to steady,” he added. 

As soon as the affected person has recorded their vitals utilizing both video or image format, the knowledge will probably be saved in each the affected person app and the physician portal. The physician can instantly see what the affected person has recorded and conducts a video name with the affected person. Following the decision, the physician is dropped at a module the place they will prescribe remedy, problem a medical certificates, or present a referral letter to a specialist.  

“We full this journey with all of this being emailed to the affected person… We hope to make the patient-doctor journey a little bit extra handy,” he concluded. 

Kung requested for Bhuta to share concerning the platform’s commonest use case, to which he replied that the majority not too long ago it was first responder instances. 

“[We also see] plenty of power case administration, and these programmes can vary from three weeks to a yr. Not solely that, however once we first began, the platform was really a self-monitoring well being kiosk with Bluetooth-connected gadgets. So by way of inhabitants well being, we participated in plenty of group well being initiatives and the vitals will probably be helpful in drafting plenty of insurance policies by communities, hospitals.”

AlteaCare’s built-in digital well being platform 

William Suryawan, Chief Working Officer and Co-founder of AlteaCare talked about their platform which connects sufferers throughout Indonesia with healthcare professionals in hospitals. To elucidate how AlteaCare works, he used the case examine of a affected person named “Junita”. 

Junita – utilizing AlteaCare – consulted a health care provider based mostly in Jayapura about her situation through video name, however she was not glad with the therapy suggestions and wished to get a second opinion from a health care provider based mostly in Indonesia’s capital metropolis of Jakarta. She forwarded her lab outcomes, which had been saved on the platform, to that physician for a session. Happy with the therapy and drug suggestions, she selected to buy them and have them delivered to her dwelling. 

“And so this could occur as a result of AlteaCare is efficiently built-in with the digital medical data within the hospitals. So after a teleconsultation, a affected person can entry the abstract of the medical report and ahead their medical data to any physician that they want to have a second opinion from,” he concluded.

Khumaidi wished to learn how AlteaCare differentiates itself from different telemedicine purposes. 

“As a result of AlteaCare is built-in with the system, medical doctors don’t have to kind info into the AlteaCare platform and may do this of their EMR or HIS. We efficiently satisfied the hospitals to open their API to exterior purposes to make the affected person journey smoother. [It’s also an] improved buyer expertise, if the affected person needs to go to the hospital offline publish session, all the information is inside the hospital,” Suryawan defined.

DoctorTool’s digital ecosystem for healthcare suppliers

Rainaldo, CEO and Co-founder of Physician Device defined that his well being tech startup offers a digital ecosystem for healthcare suppliers and residents, citing that their greater than 230 shoppers are unfold throughout 24 provinces in Indonesia. 

He demonstrated the product via a teleconsultation with a health care provider, who may instantly see his medical historical past reminiscent of previous diagnoses and prescriptions. In the middle of the teleconsultation, he additionally used a blood strain (BP) monitor – which was related to the Physician Device Hub – enabling the physician to see his BP studying. The physician then supplied him with a prescription, with the platform enabling him to go for courier companies or to gather his remedy at a pharmacy. 

“The Physician Device hub can join with many gadgets, many sensors. We will use it in medical services. With this sort of telemedicine, medical doctors can present diagnoses and prescribe medicines extra repeatedly. We already efficiently applied this expertise to assist medical doctors from Indonesian universities [provide care] for households with infants or younger kids in rural areas in Indonesia,” Rainaldo mentioned. 

Tan wished to know the way if the affected person may see what the physician was typing throughout the session, and the place the affected person historical past comes from. 

“I can not see it throughout the name, however after the dialog I can take a look on the data,” Rainaldo defined. He added that the historical past that the physician refers to is from previous consultations on the app.

Kesia’s HIS with telemedicine function

San Emirza, CFO of Kardia Group in Indonesia started his demo by stating that telemedicine is only a small function of the Kesia HIS. 

“Within the distant islands in Indonesia, we do not actually have a very good unfold of specialists – most likely numerous GPs solely. So [in Kesia] now we have a function inside our EMR which permits GPs to seek the advice of specialists dwelling in huge cities like Jakarta,” he mentioned. 

Emirza defined {that a} affected person might be consulting a GP about his situation, but when the GP didn’t have the best experience – within the occasion of the affected person being diabetic for instance – a three-way name with a specialist may then be initiated.

“[Additionally] by regulation, the GPs will not be allowed to prescribe some medicine – however the specialists are allowed to prescribe these medicine. The GPs dwelling inside the identical area because the affected person will then be capable to problem the medicine to the affected person,” he added.

Kung requested how they managed the method operationally – for instance, ensuring that the specialist is on the market. 

“So there are literally reserving methods,” Emirza defined. “And the specialist has to have a while devoted to supply the service. Say they’ve a bodily service for 4 hours; they will have to allocate one hour for telemedicine.”

MFine’s digital hospital

“All of it begins with the chatbot,” mentioned Prasad Kompalli, Co-founder and CEO of MFine who joined the Showcase through Zoom.

He defined that MFine’s chatbot collects very important details about the sickness of the affected person even earlier than the session. 

“If any individual says [they have a] fever, then we ask extra questions on it. If any individual says cough, we report the cough via the app – we’re processing the sign of cardio to have the ability to assess whether or not it is an higher respiratory or decrease respiratory an infection. We’re doing all of this to have a pre-decision made earlier than even the physician joins the video name,” he defined.

With this info in hand, the physician will then be a part of the decision to advocate a therapy plan for the affected person. Three-way communication can be enabled within the occasion there’s a caretaker concerned within the state of affairs. 

Kompalli added that utilizing a cell phone’s digital camera, the app can be capable of measure a affected person’s vitals (e.g., coronary heart price, BP, SPO2, and so on.). With these vitals, the prognosis turns into rather more data-driven, and the physician is ready to diagnose at a better high quality. 

Dr Pacharapha requested if MFine was interfacing with any medical tools. 

“We aren’t immediately interfacing with any {hardware} in the meanwhile. Sooner or later, we wish to join with different gadgets like Apple Watches for instance,” Kompalli replied. 

Lim requested for Kompalli to share concerning the algorithm that the platform makes use of to distribute sufferers to medical doctors.

“There’s no algorithm within the sense that it is based mostly on filters that the affected person chosen. There are filters round who’s the closest physician, who’s out there, in addition to whom you consulted earlier than final time. And moreover some filters round what’s their expertise and what number of sufferers have seen to date. We do not do the matching. We really present this info, the sufferers determine on the physician that they wish to go to,” Kompalli defined.