Health Care : Current Reviews

Sustainable Healthcare for women: Are computational platforms up to the task?

International Congress on Global Healthcare

August 24-25, 2023 | WEBINAR

Priya Ranjan

University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, India

Scientific Tracks Abstracts: Health Care Curr Rev

Abstract:

India is a vast country with complex socio-economic characteristics that are reflected in its medical systems. These include an insufficient number of primary care doctors practicing in rural and semi-urban areas and consequently about 70% of the population that lives in rural areas, in particular women, have limited access to adequate health care. This is further compounded by the fact that out-of-pocket expenditure constitutes around 80% of the total healthcare spending. This is a matter of grave concern as Health in India stands at a paradoxical juncture. We believe that the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for health (eHealth) has the potential to improve all these areas, that is facilitate access to quality health care for health information to women as well as to improve the quality of health-related data, as evidenced in other Low-and-Middle- Income countries. The adoption of Intelligent Decision Support Systems-based delivery of healthrelated services not only involves remote participation enabling the timely diagnosis to prevent mis-or-missed diagnosis. Mobile based smart communications technology has deep penetration in rural India and could serve as a crucial adjunct clinical aid in saving people’s lives. Further, the computational platform could also be prospected to develop a novel triage for assigning women patients in the order of disease severity along with dynamic and automated clinical-resource allocation to provide best quality health services at a competitive price.

Biography :

Prof. Ranjan’s latest interest is in biological computation and oncological image processing long with his ICMR senior research fellow (SRF) Ms. Arti Taneja. Some of their recent papers have been accepted in Multimedia and Tools (MMT) by Springer and in conferences on cancer related issues world-wide, including the highly rated conference ISBI 2018. He truly believes that a multi-way productive collaboration with biologists, public health professionals and clinical scientists with bioinformatics and bio-computational suite of tools will lead to the next knowledge revolution for humanity towards facilitation of better health services. He has authored more than fifty research articles in different international conferences around the world, many heavily cited journal papers and many book chapters in heavily cited books published by IEEE and Springer Press.