<p>Xerox Research Centre in India (XRCI), part of $20-billion photocopying and printers company Xerox Corporation, is approaching the healthcare vertical by building a new platform called Whealth.<br /><br /></p>.<p>“XRCI wants to bring patient, consumer and end-user at the centre of a new healthcare delivery model, which is empowered by digital health. To make it happen we are working towards a platform called Whealth,” said Satish Rath, who is heading the project at the XRCI.<br /><br />Rath said the platform will collect patient data from third party apps (Google Fit, Runkeeper, Myhealthpal), wearables (Fitbit, Jawbone, Android wear, and Zen watch) and consumer-centric medical devices (Withing/ihealth BP, Spo2, weighing scale etc). It is connected via patient’s smartphone.<br /><br />The smartphone will act as a gateway of collecting information of all these apps as well as a virtual coach to adhere to healthy lifestyle. “The collected trend data can predict onset of complication or disease progression, and can compare an individual’s disease progression amongst the population, and suggest best way forward,” he said.<br /><br />This approach will help healthcare providers, pharmaceuticals and contract research organisation (CRO) to reach out to their respective customers like chronic disease management, elderly care, home care, medicine consumers and clinical trial recruits in easy, evidence-based and affordable way.<br /><br />Rath said this platform-centric approach will disrupt the way healthcare is delivered with better quality, better patient experience and engagement at a much lesser cost. He said Xerox healthcare business is predominantly based in the US, and it is focusing on population health and precision medicine.<br /><br />Healthcare is over $2-billion business for Xerox globally. Besides, giving insurance services, Xerox also provides clinical care solutions to hospitals by getting into analytics for healthcare and also developing solutions for tele-medicine and home monitoring.<br /><br />On the precision medicine, XRCI has come up with a new project called ‘Optcare’. “The precision medicine can be simplified as tailor made treatment or care plan for patients because each patient is unique as per his/her phenotype and genotype,” he said.</p>
<p>Xerox Research Centre in India (XRCI), part of $20-billion photocopying and printers company Xerox Corporation, is approaching the healthcare vertical by building a new platform called Whealth.<br /><br /></p>.<p>“XRCI wants to bring patient, consumer and end-user at the centre of a new healthcare delivery model, which is empowered by digital health. To make it happen we are working towards a platform called Whealth,” said Satish Rath, who is heading the project at the XRCI.<br /><br />Rath said the platform will collect patient data from third party apps (Google Fit, Runkeeper, Myhealthpal), wearables (Fitbit, Jawbone, Android wear, and Zen watch) and consumer-centric medical devices (Withing/ihealth BP, Spo2, weighing scale etc). It is connected via patient’s smartphone.<br /><br />The smartphone will act as a gateway of collecting information of all these apps as well as a virtual coach to adhere to healthy lifestyle. “The collected trend data can predict onset of complication or disease progression, and can compare an individual’s disease progression amongst the population, and suggest best way forward,” he said.<br /><br />This approach will help healthcare providers, pharmaceuticals and contract research organisation (CRO) to reach out to their respective customers like chronic disease management, elderly care, home care, medicine consumers and clinical trial recruits in easy, evidence-based and affordable way.<br /><br />Rath said this platform-centric approach will disrupt the way healthcare is delivered with better quality, better patient experience and engagement at a much lesser cost. He said Xerox healthcare business is predominantly based in the US, and it is focusing on population health and precision medicine.<br /><br />Healthcare is over $2-billion business for Xerox globally. Besides, giving insurance services, Xerox also provides clinical care solutions to hospitals by getting into analytics for healthcare and also developing solutions for tele-medicine and home monitoring.<br /><br />On the precision medicine, XRCI has come up with a new project called ‘Optcare’. “The precision medicine can be simplified as tailor made treatment or care plan for patients because each patient is unique as per his/her phenotype and genotype,” he said.</p>
