Driving Digital Transformation in Healthcare with Low Code - A joint program by CMA with Zoho Corporation & CIO Klub
04-Nov-2022
ITC Welcome Hotel
Coimbatore Management Association (CMA), CIO Club of Coimbatore and Zoho
Corporation jointly organised an evening program titled & Driving digital transformation in
healthcare with Low code No code software technology; on the 5th of November 2022 at
ITC Welcome Hotel, Coimbatore. The program was attended by about 50 CIO of various
hospitals apart from Past presidents and office bearers of CMA, CIO club and product and
marketing team of Zoho Corporation, Chennai.
Dr Nithyanandan Devaraaj, Vice President, CMA in his welcome speech recalled the enormous contribution made by CMA to the professionalization of management since its inception in 1956. He set the context to the meeting by highlighting the importance and impact of digital technology in various industries in general and healthcare in particular. He said India is emerging as a digital super power of the world and stressed the importance of innovation, relearning, reskilling and upskilling for India to maintain its leadership.
Ms Merlin, Manager Marketing, Zoho corporation, spoke on the emergence of new and disruptive software technology called Low code and No code software (LCNC) in which Zoho corporation is a leader in the magic quadrant as per Gartner, world renowned IT rating agency. She said that Zoho Corporation is truly a Make in India company with over 25 years existence in India and having 18 million users with more than 45 products like Zoho creator, Zoho finance and Zoho Marketing competing with IT giants like Google and Microsoft. She said that Zoho creator started as a LCNC software platform focused on small and medium size organisations but is now also able to cater to enterprise level organisations due to the enormous R&D efforts done by the company during the last decade.
Mr.U.K. Ananthpadmanabhan, Past President of CMA and Founder & CEO of Tenxhealth Technologies, Coimbatore delivered a talk on the concept of LCNC technology and how it is contributing to digital transformation in hospitals. He gave practical demonstration of some IT applications developed with Zoho Creator. He explained how he implemented more than 10 IT applications like Ambulance management, Facilities Engineering Management, Fire safety Equipment Management, Medical Equipment Management etc during the last one year at MGM Healthcare, Chennai, St John’s Medical College Hospital, Bangalore and Ortho One hospital at Coimbatore.
He said the LCNC is a truly a disruptive software technology because any professional with no coding knowledge can develop his/her own IT applications five times faster, five time cheaper and five times easier for his work flow. Professionals who develop their own IT applications using LCNC technologies are now called Citizen programmers. According to Gartner research agency, we will need 500 million IT applications in next five years all over the world and there is a severe shortage of good, qualified and experienced IT programmers. LCNC can be the best tool to meet the huge demand for IT professionals. He also introduced the concept of hyper automation which is a platform approach and the convergence of emerging IT technologies to achieve excellence in hospital operations.
Mr Senthil, Manager-Operations of Ortho one gave a detailed presentation of the Ambulance management system built on the Zoho Creator platform by Ms Tenxhealth Technologies that is being used by them for the past 3 months . He said that the new application helped to manage the entire transport system better by reducing operating costs and enabling a real time monitoring of the vehicles as GPS data is integrated to Creator application. The sessions were followed by an interesting and informative Q&A session. Dr.N.Raveendran, Secretary of CMA, & President of CIO club of Coimbatore in his vote of thanks said that programme was educative and proposed that CMA should organize such sessions for other industries in Coimbatore. The meeting ended with a dinner.
Dr Nithyanandan Devaraaj, Vice President, CMA in his welcome speech recalled the enormous contribution made by CMA to the professionalization of management since its inception in 1956. He set the context to the meeting by highlighting the importance and impact of digital technology in various industries in general and healthcare in particular. He said India is emerging as a digital super power of the world and stressed the importance of innovation, relearning, reskilling and upskilling for India to maintain its leadership.
Ms Merlin, Manager Marketing, Zoho corporation, spoke on the emergence of new and disruptive software technology called Low code and No code software (LCNC) in which Zoho corporation is a leader in the magic quadrant as per Gartner, world renowned IT rating agency. She said that Zoho Corporation is truly a Make in India company with over 25 years existence in India and having 18 million users with more than 45 products like Zoho creator, Zoho finance and Zoho Marketing competing with IT giants like Google and Microsoft. She said that Zoho creator started as a LCNC software platform focused on small and medium size organisations but is now also able to cater to enterprise level organisations due to the enormous R&D efforts done by the company during the last decade.
Mr.U.K. Ananthpadmanabhan, Past President of CMA and Founder & CEO of Tenxhealth Technologies, Coimbatore delivered a talk on the concept of LCNC technology and how it is contributing to digital transformation in hospitals. He gave practical demonstration of some IT applications developed with Zoho Creator. He explained how he implemented more than 10 IT applications like Ambulance management, Facilities Engineering Management, Fire safety Equipment Management, Medical Equipment Management etc during the last one year at MGM Healthcare, Chennai, St John’s Medical College Hospital, Bangalore and Ortho One hospital at Coimbatore.
He said the LCNC is a truly a disruptive software technology because any professional with no coding knowledge can develop his/her own IT applications five times faster, five time cheaper and five times easier for his work flow. Professionals who develop their own IT applications using LCNC technologies are now called Citizen programmers. According to Gartner research agency, we will need 500 million IT applications in next five years all over the world and there is a severe shortage of good, qualified and experienced IT programmers. LCNC can be the best tool to meet the huge demand for IT professionals. He also introduced the concept of hyper automation which is a platform approach and the convergence of emerging IT technologies to achieve excellence in hospital operations.
Mr Senthil, Manager-Operations of Ortho one gave a detailed presentation of the Ambulance management system built on the Zoho Creator platform by Ms Tenxhealth Technologies that is being used by them for the past 3 months . He said that the new application helped to manage the entire transport system better by reducing operating costs and enabling a real time monitoring of the vehicles as GPS data is integrated to Creator application. The sessions were followed by an interesting and informative Q&A session. Dr.N.Raveendran, Secretary of CMA, & President of CIO club of Coimbatore in his vote of thanks said that programme was educative and proposed that CMA should organize such sessions for other industries in Coimbatore. The meeting ended with a dinner.
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