Overview of HIC

Healthcare Sector is under immense stress due to increased costs, reduced utilization and regulatory restrictions. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, regular patient footfalls into the hospitals are impacted. These changing dynamics are compelling Healthcare delivery organizations to look for newer delivery models.


To support the Hospitals achieve these objectives, NASSCOM CoE is organizing Healthcare Innovation Challenge (HIC), which is focused on creating a competitive edge & operational excellence for the Hospitals by enabling Collaborative & Frugal Innovation. Healthcare Innovation Challenge is meant for Hospitals so that they may nominate Use Cases relevant to them, which will be followed by curation & evaluation of Technology led Innovative solutions and enable their deployment to address the nominated Use Cases.

Objectives of HIC

The key objectives of Healthcare Innovation Challenge (HIC) are:

  • Creating a competitive edge & operational excellence for Hospitals by enabling Collaborative & Frugal Innovation
  • Enabling Hospitals to nominate Use Cases relevant to them
  • Driving the program that enables the curation, evaluation & deployment of Technology led Innovative solutions that address the nominated Use Cases.

Benefits to the Partner Hospitals
Jury Panel
Speakers
Winners
Showcase
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Inauguration Details

 

Healthcare Innovation Challenge was officially launched on 18th December, 2020 by


  • Dr. Saket Kumar, IAS, Special Secretary Industry & Commerce, Government of Haryana
  • Mr. Pramod Bhasin, Founder Genpact, Chairman Clix Capital and Past Chairman & Member of NASSCOM Executive Council
  • Shri Dhammapal Chawhan, MD HARTRON

The Inaugural event saw the participation from Key stakeholders from Partner Hospitals including:


  • Dr Pankaj Nathvani

    Zydus Hospital, Ahmedabad

  • Dr Sameer Mehta - CEO

    Mr Ganapathy Shankar - CTO

    Dr Mehta’s Multispecialty Hospital, Chennai


  • Mr J. P. Dwivedi - CIO

    Rajiv Gandhi Cancer
    Institute & Research Centre, Delhi


  • Dr Thulasiraj Ravilla - Director, Operations

    Mr Saravanan Sankaran - CIO

    Mr Ganesh Babu - Senior Manager, IT

    Aravind Eye Care System, Madurai

  • Mr Bhoopendra Solanki - Head, IT

    Sakra World Hopsital, Bengaluru

  • Mr Naveen Kumar - General Manager, IT

    KIMS Hospital, Hyderabad

  • Dr Jayashankar Das - Director, Research

    Institute of Medical Sciences &
    SUM Hospital, Bhubaneswar

  • Ishaq Quadri - Secretary

    HIMSS India Chapter

Challenge Timelines
  1. 18th Dec, 2020
    Inauguration

  2. 31th Jan, 2021
    Application Close

  3. 12th March, 2021
    Jury Round Complete

  4. 19th March, 2021
    Demo Day

  5. Hospitals starts POC

DETAILS OF THE NOMINATED USE CASES
UseCase Use Case description Platform Integration
USE CASE 1: OUT-PATIENT (OPD) CARE AUTOMATION

A Solution that has the below given capabilities (please note that different hospitals may ask for subset of the capabilities):

  • Automate patient registration process through Aadhar card or other Government ID with self/OTP consent
  • Allow registered patients to book the visit slot
  • Provide payment integration for services rendered / to be rendered through payment gateway (solution developer may recommend the gateway if it is not already there)
  • Allow the patient to check the next steps in the treatment inside the hospital by integrating OPD consultation with other steps recommended by the Healthcare provider and guide the patients where to go, when to go so that the patients wait time is reduced as much as possible
  • Display Queue Number and Waiting time
  • Provide medication reminders, follow-up reminders, post-op instructions to patients via the Mobile Application
  • Book the test via the Mobile Application and Deliver Lab & Radiology investigation reports to patients via WhatsApp & Email
  • Inform the visitor about parking status
Patient facing Native mobile/Web application

The solution has to integrate with the Hospitals HIS system

HIS being used is ICT Health may be Hinai or some other system developed for the hospital. Integration support will be available.

With Hikvision’s ANPR based Parking management system, to:

  • Inform the visitors about the condition there
  • Update Valet Parking to about the visitor’s ETA to the designated spot to pick up the vehicle
USE CASE 2: IN-PATIENT (IPD) CARE AUTOMATION

Patient room solution (combination of software & hardware/IoT device) which should take care of the complete nursing care & patients requests and having the below-mentioned capabilities:

  • Touch panel based system at patient bed for publishing updates to HIS and subscribing to specific topics, departmental requests placement over voice, and accessing outstanding bill, ongoing Hospital offers, yoga videos, internet browsing etc (may be android based touch panel)
  • Allow the nurse to set the reminders sent to on-duty nurse’s mobile application and / or nursing station’s desktop / tablet based dashboard. Typical examples are Medication notification, Intravenous fluid completion notification.
    • For IV fluid notification, the deployment of a non-intrusive IoT based device for reverse countdown reminders is needed that sends an alert to the nursing station and duty nurse when IV fluid goes below a particular level. Measure criteria is time, not the level of fluid in the bottle. Nurse will set the timer
  • Connect medical equipment's like Vital Monitors, Syringe pumps, Ventilators, Defibrillators, Analog Oxygen meters through IoT device to switch on / off the equipment's, capture vitals like blood sugar / pressure, temperature, pulse rate etc and monitor equipment utilization for integration with the billing
  • Android based application to aggregate the different manual inputs & automated inputs from field devices & visualization on the Touch panel
  • Other services may be added
Android based Mobile app for Nurses, Android based Desktop / Tablet dashboard for Nursing Station & Touch panel on Patient bedside.

The solution should be able to integrate With the Wipro On-premises HIS system, to:

  • Fetch & push updates on in-patient details like vitals, medication & treatment etc.
  • Fetch Lab reports
  • Book ICU, OT and other Hospital resources

With Billing system, to:

  • Fetch outstanding bill & Hospital offers
  • Update Hospital resource & medical equipment utilization

With Medical equipment via IoT devices, to:

  • Capture vitals
  • Monitor utilization
USE CASE 3: PRESCRIPTION DIGITALIZATION

The Hospital has doctor Application, which is having the in-patient details. The Handwriting recognition solution should allow the doctor to scribble on his/her tablet, and convert it to text. The solution should be able to integrate with Srishti PARAS HMIS and signed handwritten notes should be published to the HIS, to be able to do an accuracy audit. The solution should have Machine Learning based algorithm that can increase its recognition accuracy as the doctor does manual edit & review. The hospital has previously worked with a solution provider having handwriting recognition capabilities but it necessitated the use of A4 size sheet with expensive digital pens, which were prone to getting misplaced, which made the solution unviable.

Alternatively, the solution should allow the Doctor to enter voice note via the existing Doctor Application, which should be converted to text. The Voice file along with the text note should be published to the HIS. The solution should have Machine Learning based algorithm that is able to train on the doctor voice, based on manual edit &review

USE CASE 4: DIGITIZING PATHOLOGY SLIDES

Digitizing Histopathology slides for long for life time storage and creating datasets for AI based diagnosis. There is no slide scanner currently deployed and solution provider needs to make the suggestions for required hardware. End-to-end low cost solution is needed.

USE CASE 5: INTEGRATION OF DIAGNOSTIC EQUIPMENT WITH EMR

The medical equipment used for diagnosis, investigation or treatment are mostly standalone. Data from these equipment are important and currently recorded manually or by screen capturing tools and then populated in the EMR. There is a need for easy integration of these diagnostic devices / equipment with the electronic medical records by developing appropriate interfaces / platform that mediates the software application with the devices and captures the output from the devices after investigation or treatment into application seamlessly. All the results and images will be stored as part of the EMR for referring in subsequent visits of the patients. The equipment have various types of connectivity protocols and produce different forms of outputs.

USE CASE 6: AI BASED TOOL FOR RESPIRATORY SYNDROME DIAGNOSIS The features of infected lungs and hearts seen on medical images can help assess disease severity, predict response to treatment, and improve patient outcomes. However, a major challenge is to rapidly and accurately identify these signatures and evaluate this information in combination with many other clinical symptoms and tests. There is a need to deploy an AI based assisted tool which can differentiate the respiratory disorders like flu, pulmonary and other lung disorders to screen the patient based on radiology images like Chest X-ray, CT scan etc. This will allow the quick intervention of therapy as the symptoms for these disorders are all similar towards its severity.
Instructions for Applicants
  1. 1. A solution provider can apply for multiple use cases. However, while applying for multiple use cases, please mention solution description for each Use case separately.
  2. 2. Applicants are requested to provide as many details as possible while staying relevant to the Use case(s)
  3. 3. We need end-to-end solutions for the nominated use cases. However, if a solution services a major part of the problem statement, then also the solution providers may apply
  4. 4. The startup applying for the challenge hereby declares its willingness to deploy the solution for the nominated use case (s), if declared successful
  5. 5. Since the challenge will be executed in a phase-wise manner, the startups are expected to present the solution to multiple stakeholders
  6. 6. The decision of the Jury with regards to the winning solution shall be final & binding
  7. 7. If you are using Cloud storage service (like Google Drive, WeTransfer, Dropbox etc) links anywhere in the application, please ensure proper file sharing settings so that the files are accessible.
HIC Core Team
Contact

To know more about Healthcare Innovation Challenge

please contact us at hic@nasscom.in