Digital dispensaries in India take affordable healthcare to remote locations
14-Sep-17, ET Healthworld
IAS officer-turned-entrepreneur Dr Syed Sabahat Azim hopes to solve India’s primary healthcare problem. “We call it hospital in a box,” says Dr Azim, chief executive of Kolkata based Glocal Healthcare Systems.
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A computer monitor sits atop a shiny cube and a scanner overhangs the illuminated table-top of the portable box. The device is implanted with a custom-written algorithmic software for interpretation of data and is linked to an automatic dispenser calibrated to dispense medicines.
The only thing a patient will miss at clinics equipped with these cubes will be the physical presence of a doctor.