Keen use of technology at the hospital.
Columbia Asia Hospitals has appointed Shuvankar Pramanick as its CIO. Pramanick was previously CIO of Sir Ganga Ram Hospital.
According to Pramanick’s LinkedIn page he has been associated with different digital transformation in healthcare, artificial intelligence , process automation by using BOTs and process transformation in critical areas like ICU , machine learning .
He also has “extensive experience in EMR and clinical data analysis”. As well as, “experience and demonstrated excellence in conceptualising and implementing healthcare projects from scratch.
Columbia Asia is an international healthcare group operating a chain of modern hospitals across Asia, with eleven facilities including a presence in Bangalore, Mysore, Kolkata, Gurugram, Ghaziabad, Patiala and Pune.
Its owned by more than 150 private equity companies, fund management organisations and individual investors.
At the hospital there is a keen interest in applying AI in healthcare facilities as well to receive improved diagnosis and management of the diseases as well as to develop effective therapies. While machine learning (AI’s subset) can be seen benefitting in diagnosis as well as treatment, this is only the tip of an iceberg with an immense scope awaiting to be rightly utilised.
Machine learning picks out the change in the tissue as a signal and uses it to discern if the tissue being imaged is cancerous or not, wrote Dr Baswant Rao Malipatil, Consultant Medical Oncologist, Columbia Asia Hospital.
“The usage of AI that is the most looked up to is in dealing with cancer, given the complexity, anxiety, and uncertainty that surrounds this disease,” he stated. “With the ability to analyse data, AI has the potential to revolutionise diagnosis for cancer universally. The key to successful cancer treatment is in catching it early.”
