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Implications of IoT for Emerging Economies – Strategic Significance, Pitfalls , Challenges and Opportunities. Rajeev Tatkar. Agenda for the session. Radical Shift in Service Delivery Landscape Strategic Significance of IoT for Emerging Economies
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Implications of IoT for Emerging Economies – Strategic Significance, Pitfalls, Challenges and Opportunities Rajeev Tatkar
Agenda for the session • Radical Shift in Service Delivery Landscape • Strategic Significance of IoT for Emerging Economies • Pitfalls in using IoT in Emerging Economies • Challenges to the use of IoT in Emerging Economies • Opportunities and beyond in Emerging Economies
Radical Changes in Technologies • Technology Drivers for use of IoT • Technologies • Cloud Computing • Data Analytics • Machine Learning • Artificial Intelligence • Business Process Drivers • New Business Processes • Workflows and Work methods for new processes
Factors that drive the Need for IoT • Reduced Time for Service • Waiting Time for availing service • Quicker results of diagnostic and other tests • Reduced Effort to Obtain Service • Effort of physical movement • Effort for availing service • Reduced Cost of and on Service • Multiprocessing for service provider • Lower cost of service for the service recipient
Meeting Millennium Development Goals • MDGs • Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty • Achieve Universal Primary Education • Promote Gender Equality and empower women • Reduce child Mortality • Improve Maternal Mortality • Combat communicable disease • Ensure environmental sustainability • Develop global partnership for development
Strategic Issues in Emerging Economies • 80% of the worlds population resides in emerging economies with 45-50% of the total income of the world • Few service providers where most patients are located • Too many service providers where patients are capable of paying for the service • Under equipped first point of contact of healthcare system for patient • Quality of treatment of patients is limited by the capability and knowledge of barefoot health services provider in remote locations
Pitfalls for Technology • Device Acceptability and hence long schedule of implementation • Suitability of the devices for use under poor hygiene conditions • Racial differences that may impact suitability, results and reference values • Commoditisation of devices will also lead to commoditisation of data outputs from devices with implications for • Privacy • Security • Misinterpretation • Misuse of data
Pitfalls for data and Legal framework • IoT data security and privacy are concerns that certainly will get mainstream • IoT has the potential to collect data without the knowledge of the person providing the data. • It can be legally complex particularly for Emerging Economies, if the data is being transmitted to other countries and used elsewhere • Mechanisms to control the usage of data
Challenges for IoT • The new set of challenges • Data Velocity • Data Volume • Data Validity • Poor Data Connectivity • Low quality of back-end infrastructure • IoT Devices and its underlying infrastructure needs to Enable, Ensure and Enhance capabilities of systems
Challenges for IoT devices • The challenges for IOT devices in emerging economies • IoT Devices that are appropriate to the levels of income • IoT Devices that can transmit data over mobile and fixed line PSTN networks • IoT Devices that address the needs of the local conditions • IoT Devices that can work without availability of continuous electric supply • IoT Devices that can be reusable and shared across multiple patients • IoT Devices that have a reasonably long working life • IoT Devices that use open source hardware and software • IoT Devices that can work with low levels of skill sets on the part of users • IoT Devices that need minimal end user training and support
Challenges for Providers and recipients • The challenges for providers and recipients • Empowered customers will likely research information even before it reaches the doctor • Doctors need to be way ahead of their current knowledgebase • Increased competition from data interpretation • By people • By Machines • Through databases • Larger social, political and commercial issues may override the benefits available from the devices
Opportunities • Capability to service huge under serviced population • Reaching, Enabling and Empowering intervention with physical distance as no barrier • Reduction of cost, effort and time for service • Larger involvement of communities in their well being • Targeted health financing for communities, groups and individuals
Beyond IoT, the real world of Healthcare • Building an - • Internet of people • Internet of services • Internet of materials • Internet of institutions • Internet of finance • Internet of community • Internet of self dependence and responsibility
Rajeev Tatkar Director 21st Century Informatics (India) Pvt. Ltd. rajeev.tatkar@21ci.com Thank you for your attention