Diabetes and Digital: Discussion on Unmet Needs and How Digital Tools Can Help?

Title: Panel discussion by ExperimentsWithSugar team for FTR4H in Medical Fair India 2019

ExperimentsWithSugar, a non-profit initiative under InnovatioCuris Foundation of Healthcare & Excellence (ICFHE), participated in a panel discussion on "Diabetes and Digital: Discussion on unmet needs and how digital tools can help?" which was a part of FTR4H (Future for Health) under the MEDICAL FAIR INDIA 2019 banner.

The panel was moderated by Sachin Gaur and was graced by panelists Surgeon Rear Admiral (Retd.) Dr V K Singh, Mukul Bagga and Dr Vibha Jain.

The panel discussion strikingly discussed about the challenges in behaviour change and lack of right information and actionable insights for a patient and clinicians alike.

The panel discussed about

• The wildfire growth of Type 2 diabetes in India; its knowns and unknowns

• Proposals to fix the oncoming diabetic epidemic situation

• Unmet needs of stakeholders in terms of diabetics, care givers, clinicians, diagnostics, etc.

• Prediction of digital tools in the Indian healthcare diabetes landscape Some moments from the panel discussion can be found at experimentswithsugar.in/ participation-gallery

Full video of the panel discussion can be watched at http://bit.ly/ewsftr4h-panel