Healthcare Radius – December 2018

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Wockhardt
launches diabetes
clinic
Wockhardt Hospital,
Mumbai Central, in as-
sociation with Wellthy
Therapeutics, South
Asia’s leading digital
therapeutic company,
has launched a ‘diabetes
clinic’. Digital technolo-
gies suite for diabetes
will be used to help peo-
ple in treatment from
the medical condition.
Digital therapeutics
involves the use of digi-
tal tools or systems to
treat medical conditions.
In digital therapeutics,
digital technologies
such as apps, devices
and software are used
to treat patients in the
same way drugs, surger-
ies or medical devices
are applied therapeuti-
cally. Digital therapeu-
tics may be used as
stand-alone treatments
or as part of a broader
treatment programme
that incorporates both
digital and non-digital
(conventional) therapies.
Dr Parag Rindani, Cen-
tre Head at Wockhardt
Hospital, SOBO, said,
“The newly launched
diabetes clinic will be
dedicated to provide
accessible medical treat-
ment for patients who
seek aid with various
problems related to
diabetes.”

ECHO India, in collaboration with
Ambience Public School, Gurugram,
has launched The Preventive Health
and Wellness ECHO programme, to im-
prove the overall health and well-being
of children.
Project ECHO is a collaborative model
of medical education and care manage-


ment that empowers clinicians every-
where to provide better care to more
people, right where they live.
After the international success of
ECHO model in the healthcare space,
it was adopted for the first time in the
field of education by Ambience Public
School, New Delhi.

DocOnline spreads its wings into Karnataka


ECHO India launches wellness programme


Leading telemedicine start-up,
DocOnline, has expanded its frontiers
into Karnakata with the commence-
ment of its operations in Bengaluru.
DocOnline is the first telemedicine com-
pany in Karnataka to offer online doctor
consultations in the native Kannada
language, in addition to English, Hindi,
Telugu and Tamil.
DocOnline’s vision of pan India
presence transpires into reality a step
further with the launch of its third
network office, after Hyderabad and
Pune. Having spread its wings in Ben-
galuru, DocOnline reaches out to serve
the people of Karnataka in a preferred
language of their choice, so that com-
munication between the doctor and the


patient/consumer is effective.
Furthermore, with features like
unlimited doctor consultations for
the entire subscribed period, the
online healthcare platform, which is
already impacting the lives of about
200,000customers, now reaches out
to corporates and B2C customers of
Karnataka with tailor-made offerings
specific to them.
DocOnline is an online doctor consul-
tation platform, which makes non-emer-
gency/ preventive healthcare available to
users from anywhere and at any time! It
makes healthcare affordable and easily
accessible through online consultations
with certified and experienced GPs via
telephone, video and chat facilities.

DocOnline is an online doctor consultation platform.

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