IIT Kharagpur is Bringing Together Expert Stakeholders in Modern Healthcare

Healthcare system in India has been evolving in a rapid phase. The goal of modern medicine is no longer confined to the mere treatment of sickness. Equally important is disease prevention and improvement of the basic quality of life. This requires knowledge sharing and collaborations among medical profession, architects, administrators, academics and management consultants to help them put forward their view points on the future of healthcare in India. IIT Kharagpur is bringing together these expert stakeholders in modern healthcare for deliberations on the multidimensional aspects of health which could serve as the basis of healthcare planning in India. “Modern medicine today is also seeing an unprecedented confluence of medical and engineering education and research. Assisted technology has not only enhanced learning and skill development in medicine but also added new dimensions to hospital planning and management. In this symposium Hospital Planning and Beyond we will discuss threadbare the issues facing modern day healthcare,” said Subrata Chattopadhyay, Avinash Gupta chair professor at the department Architecture and Regional Planning, IIT Kharagpur. Subrata Gupta, secretary of Urban Development and Municipal Affairs will be present to address the regulatory framework for healthcare and health pathway.

The other areas to be discussed on are patient centric approach to healthcare design and management with focus on affordable healthcare, the emerging issue of occupational lifestyle diseases, healthcare awareness through self-monitoring and tracking and step by step hospital design. Some of the key speakers and panellists are Sameer Mehta, director projects, Hosmac India Pvt. Ltd., Anjan Gupta, design principal/proprietor, Anjan Gupta Architects, Dipendra K. Mitra, head, department of Transplant & Immunology, AIIMS, Delhi, Arnab Gupta, director, Saroj Gupta Cancer Center & Research Institute and several faculty experts from IIT Kharagpur. The group will further focus on emergence of artificial intelligence in healthcare through medical diagnostics and technology. Suman Chakraborty from the School of Medical Science and Technology will highlight on the potential of AI in paving the way away from symptomatic treatment to medical consultation based on personal medical history and common medical knowledge, genomics-based health diagnosis, virtual caregiving. The initiative has been undertaken under the Avinash Gupta Chair Professorship supported by alumnus Ron Gupta, President of IIT KGP Foundation, USA. The event will be organized on January 28. – TOI