Bio Farma, Indonesia’s pharmaceutical state-owned enterprise holding, has partnered with Google Cloud, ConnectedLife and Fitbit by a brand new digital well being initiative to help the Indonesian authorities’s Wholesome Indonesia blueprint and imaginative and prescient.
Underneath the Preventive Care Medwell initiative, the events have developed a personalised digital platform referred to as ConnectedLife with Fitbit, touted to be “the primary of its sort” within the nation.
WHAT IT DOES
Constructed on Google Cloud’s infrastructure and information companies, ConnectedLife with Fitbit permits customers to synchronise their well being insights from Fitbit with ConnectedLife’s net and cellular dashboards to grasp how their diet, sleep, stress ranges and each day actions impression their well being.
After customers consent, the platform will analyse their information and produce a “Wellness Rating”, which incorporates well being insights, suggestions and gamified experiences in hopes of motivating them to enhance their way of life. A press assertion talked about that people could be inspired to keep up wholesome blood sugar ranges and cut back persistent situation dangers like diabetes.
Because of this, healthcare suppliers and employers can present people with a greater understanding of their well being danger profiles.
ConnectedLife with Fitbit makes use of Google Cloud’s enterprise-grade capabilities to implement information governance, elevated information safety and rigorous safety controls throughout the platform.
WHY IT MATTERS
In keeping with the International Diabetes Federation, greater than 19.4 million folks in Indonesia have been estimated to have diabetes as of 2021. In the meantime, 73.7 p.c of them have been anticipated to have undiagnosed diabetes in the identical 12 months. The quantity is forecasted to leap to greater than 23.3 million folks by 2030.
“Our mission is to not solely remedy illnesses, however to additionally assist people begin early and deal with sickness at its root, earlier than it progresses to the purpose of requiring remedy,” stated Soleh Ayubi, Bio Farma’s chief transformation and digital officer.
“We hope to empower Indonesians to take management of their well being, undertake a way of life that forestalls persistent and extreme illnesses, and age gracefully with enhanced high quality of life.”
Indonesia’s Ministry of State-Owned Enterprises additionally welcomed the cooperation.
“Along with driving constructive way of life modifications in people, platform information from the Preventive Care Medwell initiative will function a key useful resource for insights that inform future applications, reminiscent of precision public well being that delivers interventions to the precise inhabitants on the proper time,” stated Pahala Mansury, vice minister of Ministry of State-Owned Enterprises.
“Profitable nationwide preventive and precision care applications could make an enormous distinction in stopping or delaying the onset of persistent sicknesses. This may ease the burden on households and hospitals, and make sure that our nation’s healthcare system and monetary place stay sustainable in the long run.”
ON THE RECORD
Presently in a pilot stage, ConnectedLife with Fitbit thus far has 300 early adopters. As soon as accomplished, Bio Farma and its subsidiaries will roll out the platform to a nationwide community of 450 clinics, 1,200 pharmacies and business companions throughout the subsequent half to three-quarter a 12 months.
“With ConnectedLife as our innovation companion, we’re assured that the mix of units, software program and personalised companies – together with sturdy accountability for information acquisition, privateness and safety – can carry which means to well being info, inspire Indonesians to take proactive steps in direction of preventive well being, and allow native healthcare suppliers to ship environment friendly and high-quality care,” stated Megawaty Khie, nation director at Google Cloud Indonesia.
