Implications of Io T for Emerging Economies Strategic

Implications of Io. T for Emerging Economies – Strategic Significance, Pitfalls, Challenges and Opportunities Rajeev Tatkar

Agenda for the session • Radical Shift in Service Delivery Landscape • Strategic Significance of Io. T for Emerging Economies • Pitfalls in using Io. T in Emerging Economies • Challenges to the use of Io. T in Emerging Economies • Opportunities and beyond in Emerging Economies

Radical Shift in Service Delivery Landscape

Radical Changes in Technologies • Technology Drivers for use of Io. T • Technologies • Cloud Computing • Data Analytics • Machine Learning • Artificial Intelligence • Business Process Drivers • New Business Processes • Workflows and Work methods for new processes

Factors that drive the Need for Io. T • Reduced Time for Service • Waiting Time for availing service • Quicker results of diagnostic and other tests • Reduced Effort to Obtain Service • Effort of physical movement • Effort for availing service • Reduced Cost of and on Service • Multiprocessing for service provider • Lower cost of service for the service recipient

Strategic Significance of Io. T for Emerging Economies

Meeting Millennium Development Goals • MDGs • Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty • Achieve Universal Primary Education • Promote Gender Equality and empower women • Reduce child Mortality • Improve Maternal Mortality • Combat communicable disease • Ensure environmental sustainability • Develop global partnership for development

Strategic Issues in Emerging Economies • 80% of the worlds population resides in emerging economies with 45 -50% of the total income of the world • Few service providers where most patients are located • Too many service providers where patients are capable of paying for the service • Under equipped first point of contact of healthcare system for patient • Quality of treatment of patients is limited by the capability and knowledge of barefoot health services provider in remote locations

Pitfalls in using Io. T in Emerging Economies

Pitfalls for Technology • Device Acceptability and hence long schedule of implementation • Suitability of the devices for use under poor hygiene conditions • Racial differences that may impact suitability, results and reference values • Commoditisation of devices will also lead to commoditisation of data outputs from devices with implications for • • Privacy Security Misinterpretation Misuse of data

Pitfalls for data and Legal framework • Io. T data security and privacy are concerns that certainly will get mainstream • Io. T has the potential to collect data without the knowledge of the person providing the data. • It can be legally complex particularly for Emerging Economies, if the data is being transmitted to other countries and used elsewhere • Mechanisms to control the usage of data

Challenges to Io. T in Emerging Economies

Challenges for Io. T • The new set of challenges • Data Velocity • Data Volume • Data Validity • Poor Data Connectivity • Low quality of back-end infrastructure • Io. T Devices and its underlying infrastructure needs to Enable, Ensure and Enhance capabilities of systems

Challenges for Io. T devices • The challenges for IOT devices in emerging economies • Io. T Devices that are appropriate to the levels of income • Io. T Devices that can transmit data over mobile and fixed line PSTN networks • Io. T Devices that address the needs of the local conditions • Io. T Devices that can work without availability of continuous electric supply • Io. T Devices that can be reusable and shared across multiple patients • Io. T Devices that have a reasonably long working life • Io. T Devices that use open source hardware and software • Io. T Devices that can work with low levels of skill sets on the part of users • Io. T Devices that need minimal end user training and support

Challenges for Providers and recipients • The challenges for providers and recipients • Empowered customers will likely research information even before it reaches the doctor • Doctors need to be way ahead of their current knowledgebase • Increased competition from data interpretation • By people • By Machines • Through databases • Larger social, political and commercial issues may override the benefits available from the devices

Opportunities and beyond

Opportunities • Capability to service huge under serviced population • Reaching, Enabling and Empowering intervention with physical distance as no barrier • Reduction of cost, effort and time for service • Larger involvement of communities in their well being • Targeted health financing for communities, groups and individuals

Beyond Io. T, the real world of Healthcare • Building an • Internet of people • Internet of services • Internet of materials • Internet of institutions • Internet of finance • Internet of community • Internet of self dependence and responsibility

Thank you for your attention Rajeev Tatkar Director 21 st Century Informatics (India) Pvt. Ltd. rajeev. tatkar@21 ci. com

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