Apollo Hospitals Group hosts ‘Futuring Cardiac Care Summit’ to foster discussions on prevention and eradication of Heart Disease
- Futuring Cardiac Care SummitSummit provides platform for stakeholders to come together and develop action steps
28 September, 2019, Chennai: Apollo Hospitals Group hosted the first “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.
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(L to R) Dr. Hari Prasad, President Apollo
Hospitals Group, Mr. Rick Hongryul Kim, CTO/CMO & Co-Founder, Wellysis, Dr.
Prathap C Reddy, Founder Chairman Apollo Hospitals Group, Ms. Preetha Reddy,
Vice Chairperson Apollo Hospitals Group, Ms.Sangita Reddy, Joint Managing
Director Apollo Hospitals Group .
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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.
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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.
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Dr. Prathap
C Reddy, Founder Chairman Apollo Hospitals Group, Ms. Preetha Reddy, Vice
Chairperson Apollo Hospitals Group, Ms.Sangita Reddy, Joint Managing Director
Apollo Hospitals Group seen along with all the cardiac specialist from across
the world
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Agim Beshiri, 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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