Pune (Voice news service):- Technology and AI will transform healthcare and way doctors are going to work. It will not replace doctors, not compete, but assist them, so we doctors need to adopt and use these technologies. Emerging technologies can help bridge care gap opined Dr.P. Jagannath Chief of GI oncology Lilavati hospital and Director Continental Cancer Centre , Continental Hospitals, Hyderabad .
He was delivering ‘Prof. Dr.Shashank Shinde Memorial Lecture; at the inauguration of the second annual conference of ‘The Oncology Group of Pune’.
Dr. Sanjay Deshmukh, founder President of The Oncology Group Pune, Dr. Girish Phadke, organizing chairperson, organising secretaries Dr. Sujai Hegde and Dr Chetan Deshmukh , renowned surgeons Dr. Jaising Shinde, Dr Ramesh Dumbre Dr. Manish Bhatia, Dr. Debanshu Bhaduri among others were present at the inauguration.
The two-day conference was based on the theme’ Navigating Controversies: Unravelling Dilemmas in GEJ & Colorectal Cancer’.
The conference hosted many knowledge sharing sessions and deliberations like ‘How I manage my complications’ to complement our understanding and management of complex surgical procedures and ‘The Dream MDT’, where difficult cases were discussed.
Dr.P. Jagannath said that for Cancer Care or any Clinical Care, technology is the way to make sure transformation happens. Like UPI completely disrupted the financial system, healthcare will be disrupted in the next two to three years and for good. It will change the way we work.
Considered as a pioneer in Hepato Biliary Pancreatic Surgery in India, Dr.P.Jagannath invoked memories of his earlier days at Tata Memorial Hospital, he spoke about the brilliance of Dr. Shashank Shinde and how he was glued to patient care.
He added that clinical output is fine but with such a large clinical volume in our country, we should have collaboration between centres, better documentation, research, good quality publications to have good academic output.
‘The Oncology Group Pune’, was formalised in 2019, first conference took place in 2022. Today the group comprises of over 200 oncologists from in and around Pune.
