Hi Friends,

Even as I launch this today ( my 80th Birthday ), I realize that there is yet so much to say and do. There is just no time to look back, no time to wonder,"Will anyone read these pages?"

With regards,
Hemen Parekh
27 June 2013

Now as I approach my 90th birthday ( 27 June 2023 ) , I invite you to visit my Digital Avatar ( www.hemenparekh.ai ) – and continue chatting with me , even when I am no more here physically

Saturday, 6 June 2020

Let Technology Tell Truth



All over India there is hue and cry about unavailability of hospital beds for Covid patients , despite States directing all private hospitals for 20 – 30 % reservation


Just few headlines :


Covid-19: When will states run out of beds? 



Everywhere, patients are saying :

We are being turned away by hospitals, claiming they have no empty beds.



This made Delhi Government to launch a Mobile App which is supposed to “ tell “, which hospital has how many empty beds available . A great initiative with some “ teething troubles “, because App shows 200 empty beds whereas hospital says, we have none !



There are wide-spread reports that , on the sly, private hospitals are admitting rich patients who can dish out Rs 15-17 lakhs for Covid treatment !



This made me send following e-mail to AAP MLA , Raghav Chaddha :


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APP  FOR  VACANT  HOSPITAL  BEDS


Dear Raghav, [raghavchadha111188@gmail.com ]


Cc : 'moh.delhi@gov.in'  /  'msisodia.delhi@gov.in' / cmdelhi@nic.in


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At the outset  , congratulations on launching of the mobile app which shows how many beds are available in each hospital in Delhi


In long run , this app can morph enough to transform the entire Healthcare Ecosystem in entire country


In your interview with a journalist last evening on NDTV, when discrepancies were pointed out, you made following remarks :


Ø   Data in respect of “ Empty Beds “ are being uploaded by each concerned Hospital authorities personnel

Ø  Very often, this uploading gets delayed


Ø  Sometimes , the uploaded figures are being fudged on purpose


Raghav,



As long as this ( data uploading ) process remains “ manual “ , depending upon a human , what you described above , will continue to happen !


The only PERMANENT and FOOLPROOF solution is to transfer this process from humans to TRANSPARENT – UNBIASED technology


Eg : 


Simple CCTV cameras mounted on each bed – and laced with a simple software which detects whether a bed is empty or occupied – and uploading that STATUS into database, dynamically , every 10 minutes !



No big deal !  Really , extremely simple !  And neither very expensive



If you pull this off, you will set a benchmark for all other states



With regards,


Hemen Parekh




PS :


Following report will show you how technology can be beneficially exploited :


Clearview AI is by far the most frightening.
Its facial-recognition app could end our ability to walk down the street anonymously.


The user takes a picture of a person, uploads it, and sees auto-populated public and semi-public photos of that person, along with links to where those photos appeared.


The system’s backbone is a database of more than three billion images that Clearview claims to have scraped from Facebook, YouTube, Venmo, and millions of other websites.




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Dear Dr HarshVardhanji,


To begin with, I urge you to adopt this TECHNOLOGY-BASED solution in all Government Hospitals so that the Mobile App launched by Delhi government “ tells the truth “ – at least as far as the government hospitals are concerned


And when it works ( which any startup can implement within a week ), you can recommend it to all the State Governments



Related Readings :


with regards,

hemen Parekh  

hcp@recruitGuru.com  /  07  June  2020



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