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In this, the latest episode of our MediaCast podcast series of Media and Business podcasts, we bring you a young champion of Healthcare in India – young technocrat and innovative engineer Mudit Dandwate, Co-Founder and CEO of Dozee– the unique, innovative offering that’s truly empowering healthcare and is actually revolutionising patient-care in India by the day, through an amazing remote patient-monitoring system called Dozee.
Dozee empowering Healthcare in India
Before I proceed, get a hold of this. Today, Dozee is helping save lives and INR 2.7 Cr per 100 hospital beds a year to free up crucial patient-monitoring and in-hospital care resources by converting ordinary beds in hospitals into step-down ICUs. Dozee doesn’t just provide the most crucial remote patient care, the kind of costs and resources it frees up each year for just 100 hospital beds across India is to the tune of INR 2.7 crore per 100 beds. And Dozee is on a mission to cover 1 million hospital beds all over the country in the near future. Do the math.
Mudit’s passion shines through the conversation. Whether it was his passion for developing race cars that he not only help build as an engineer at IIT but also drove with daredevilry across the world’s best amateur circuits, to his passion for fusing life—enhancing technology with his tenacity and entrepreneurial desire to create a MedTech start up that would not only provide a truly innovative product and service but one that would equally empower the entire healthcare space in India.
Dozee, the company Mudit and his partner founded, has been doing that brilliantly, and this episode is a conversation that traces the pathway to the idea, development, perfecting and launch and great relevance and impact of Dozee, the name given to India’s first Contactless Remote Patient Monitoring solution that is steadily and systematically pioneering patient monitoring in hospitals and at home.
Mudit, a mechanical engineer by education, graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai in 2013, and before starting Dozee, he worked as a vehicle dynamics expert at Altair Technologies. In 2015 he co-founded Dozee with another young stalwart, Gaurav Parchani, an IIT Indore alumnus. Oh, and Mudit, who is on the Forbes 30under30 list, is no stranger to out-of-the-box thinking. He pioneered an MCC-approved cricket bat which was licensed by Slazenger and is still in use.
Mudit speaks of the growth and spread of Dozee, and how he is focused on driving, with Dozee cofounder Gaurav, the company’s OneMillionICU target.
Our conversation traverses Dozee’s commitment to perfection and touches upon the four years it took Mudit and his team to launch it in the healthcare space.
Mudit speaks of the USP, benefits and impact of the Dozee offering, and about a dog named Pi who helped them discover the wonderful value and ability of their Dozee prototype to monitor a patient’s vitals from a mattress-thickness away.
Mudit also informs me of how the Dozee offerings have been rolled out across public and private healthcare in India, and lists some excellent, forward-thinking government hospitals that have already embraced the Dozee patient-monitoring system with to great advantage. Great advantage delivered by Dozee’s AI-based module Advanced Health Intelligence, which detects early signs of health deterioration by continuously assessing user’s vitals data and conducting a risk analysis.
Awards for Dozee
So effective and impressive was Dozee that ever since it was launched in July 2019, it has been awarded grants by the GoI’s BIRAC, Sine IIT Bombay, ACT and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Dozee has also filed several patents on detecting and predicting respiratory, cardiac and neurological patterns and providing in-depth analysis of vital signals for early warning of health deterioration.
Dozee – the step-down ICU for patient-monitoring
Today, hospitals are using Dozee’s platform to convert regular hospital bed into Step-Down ICU to continuously monitor a patient’s vitals (more than 100 times per hour) including heart rate, respiration rate, oxygen saturation, temperature, blood pressure and ECG. The Dozee Pro has been installed in more than 6,000 beds in 300 hospitals covering 40 districts across India to monitor patients continuously and to help doctors & nurses enhance patient care and clinical outcomes.
Each individual Dozee unit is licensed to every hospital, at a small cost per every single bed – perhaps less than that of a cup of coffee a day, and patients are now also known to take a unit home for continued patient-monitoring and care at home too.
Dozee Million ICU intiatve
Through Dozee’s MillionICU initiative, the company is committed to bringing a rapid, long-term transformation in India’s public healthcare infrastructure. By helping leapfrog-growth in the critical health infrastructure and empower government hospitals with step-down ICU beds.
Through this initiative, Dozee is set to install 50,000 step-down ICU beds across India in the next 12 months and take it to 1 million in the next 3 years. The initiative has already benefited 32 public hospitals across 20 districts in India with more than 12000 patients being monitored and having saved 30000+ nursing hours.
But hey, those were the information bits that had me utterly excited and equally grateful that Indian Healthcare can look forward to rapid and continued empowerment, thanks to the offerings of Dozee.
Listen in to the episode, in which Mudit of all this and also about how his team and he are determined to take the goodness and impact of Dozee outside India too, so that not only can the company grow, but it can continue to power its purpose-driven mission with even greater resources that will change the face of Healthcare, not just in India, but across the world. As he tells me, Dozee is all about ‘Make in India, Made for The World’ – busy building technology to bridge the healthcare gaps in developing countries
So listen in to my conversation with this feisty, capable, dogged and passionate entrepreneurial engineer and technocrat who, by creating Dozee, has not only inspired every other start-up dreamer, but also become a true champion of HealthCare in India.
I give you Mudit Dandwate, Co-Founder and CEO of Dozee, in conversation with me on the latest episode of MediaCast, the podcast series from MediaBrief.com
Thank you for the time. And if you too feel like saying a thank you to Dozee for what it’s doing, tell your friends and colleagues about it. They deserve it and more, wouldn’t you think?
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