Artificial Intelligence revolutionising clinical medicine, need for optimum integration: Dr Jitendra

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BENGALURU: Union Minister, Dr Jitendra Singh on Friday said that Artificial Intelligence is revolutionising clinical medicine at a very fast pace and there is an urgent need for optimum integration between the existing and the newer tools of patient care.
At the same time, he said, integration is also required at a different level between the public and private sector on the one hand and on the other hand among various systems of medical practice combining allopathy with AYUSH to achieve the envisaged health goals through a synergised approach.
Speaking, as chief guest in the inaugural session of 2-day “International Patient Safety Conference 2024”,Dr Jitendra said, India’s recent success stories which have been hailed worldwide including the vaccine story, have proved beyond evidence that working in silos or in isolation has its limitations and further growth from here on is possible only through an integration at multiple levels.
Dr Singh said, for the first time after Independence, the healthcare sector has received top priority under Prime Minister Narendra Modi. PM Modi spoke about Digital Health from the ramparts of the Red Fort on Independence Day, he recalled.
A renowned diabetologist himself, Dr Jitendra said, called for strong Public Private extended integration for the optimum results. He gave the example of a recently introduced Ph.D course in Biosciences, which is multiple in nature and even B.Tech or M. Tech streams could join.
Elaborating further on integration of various streams of healthcare, Dr Jitendra pointed out that during the COVID even the West started looking up to India in search of immunity building techniques drawn from Ayurveda, Homoeopathy, Unani, Yoga, Naturopathy and other oriental alternatives. He said, however, even after the COVID phase passes out, an optimum integration and synergism of different streams of medical management are the key to successful management of various diseases and disorders which may not be otherwise completely amenable to treatment by any single stream of medicine or the treatment given in silos.
Similarly, Dr Jitendra Singh said that our Bio-economy witnessed double digit growth rate year-on-year in the last 9/10 years under the leadership of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi. “In 2014, India’s bioeconomy stood at just about $10 Billion. This fiscal we are likely to touch $150 billion and we look forward to having $300 Billion by 2030,” he said.
Dr Singh said, India has made rapid strides in the last 8/9 years. “We had just 55 (Biotech) Startups in 2014, now we have more than 6,000,” he said. Today there are over 3,000 Agritech Startups and are very successful in areas like Aroma Mission and Purple Revolution.
Dr Jitendra Singh said, Apollo has also played a pioneering role fulfilling the vision of its founder Dr Pratap Reddy in addressing the societal needs during the tough times of COVID.