Digital connections to improve India’s health

BMJ (British Medical Journal)

"Surajit Nundy, founder
Healthcare in India has long been provided in unconnected silos by individual doctors and in small hospitals. Care is typically initiated by patients who seek treatment in the private sector for which they pay providers an “out-of-pocket” fee. Most patients receive either printed or short, hastily handwritten summaries of their care. This serves to tie patients to the provider who knows them, but it means that when they do happen to move and seek another provider there are no reliable means of transferring information."

Published 22 October 2021

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Abhijit app for better rural health diagnosis

Decision-making support for unqualified practitioners in Bengal

"The Liver Foundation worked with Raxa Health, a Delhi-based health informatics company, to develop the app.
“There are limitations of logistics to human training — it can be expensive to use humans to train practitioners, and the training itself has a decay factor, the knowledge can wear away over time,” said Surajit Nundy, Raxa Health’s founder who is trained in internal medicine, public health and neural computation.
The app that Nundy and his colleagues have developed relies on what he says is a “problem-based learning strategy” to help practitioners guide patients."

​Published 23th October 2019

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Surajit Nundy, 40

"Surajit Nundy worked as a doctor in the US for over 20 years before coming back to India in 2010. He completed his MD from the University of Washington before doing a PhD in internal medicine from Duke University. As a physician and academic, Nundy was primarily interested in cognitive neuroscience and in understanding the internal workings of the human brain. His PhD was on perception, on the topic 'why we see what we do'. With his years of experience, he returned to dispense healthcare in rural and slum areas around Delhi. Here, he realised that a large gap in India's public health system could be fixed by instituting a reliable information network. This informs much of his work today with Raxa."

​Published 13th September 2013

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Doctors tie-up with Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee to launch app to aid rural health

"Surajit Nundy of Raxa Health, who has designed the app for the planned trial, says that while the project has not received the full funding yet, they hope the project is fully funded soon.“It’s an important project to assess how technology can help in telling informal healthcare providers the dos and don’ts, diagnosing simple health issues and improving referrals for serious medical conditions,” said Nundy."

Published 24th October 2019

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"Complex problems often have simple solutions. A team of young software engineers, designers and developers from six continents and working under the leadership of a US-returned doctor-scientist believes this adage can help resolve the myriad problems of India's health-care system.
Dr Surajit Nundy, MD and PhD from the United States, works out of a two-room office in Hauz Khas. Since he returned to India in 2009, he has been trying to develop a software to help maintain detailed Electronic Medical Records (EMR). The procedure has been open-sourced, and designers from San Francisco, Germany, Colombia, Singapore have chipped in."

​Published 19th May 2013

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