Dr. Patcharin Boonyarangsan Assistant Vice President for Sustainable Innovation, Bangkok Dusit Medical Services Public Company Limited or BDMS, said that in the past 4-5 years, BDMS has focused on promoting disease prevention (prevention) before treatment, therefore looking for new innovations. medical to help develop more health services together with the problem of a shortage of medical personnel Including increased medical costs Therefore, it is necessary to bring innovation to help drive the organization. An innovation department was established to take care of
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This year, the BDMS group has invested more than 1,500 million baht in innovation during the two years (2023-2024). Services used in 2023 are:
1.Ooca (U-ka) An application that was developed for use in consulting psychiatrists and psychologists online. BDMS supports this Thai startup because it sees that Ooca is the answer to the problem of prevention before treatment (prevention). of mental health, which the Ooca app has a target group of users People with stress, fear, and pressure in life and want to undergo a mental health assessment Then if a psychologist or psychiatrist Diagnose whether the user is at a level requiring hospitalization. can be transferred to the hospitals in the BDMS network
2.Perceptra This is a project that uses artificial intelligence or AI to read X-ray results to help radiologists. by being accepted by medical personnel And in the past, this Thai startup has worked with Siriraj Hospital before. And in the next phase, prepare to launch mammograms used to screen for breast cancer
3.Mineed A needle is placed under the skin to deliver the medication. by which the needle dissolves (Microneedle) for use in the medical field beauty industry (Botox, subcutaneous anesthesia) with less injury and non-toxic to the body Which is currently pending approval from the US Food and Drug Administration or FDA before further commercial sale.
Sukha is also supported as a development project. adhesive plaster which was developed from the research of professors at Chulalongkorn University which is qualified It is cellulose that is used instead of plastic plasters to cover wounds. and can help heal wounds and also can replace the import of goods from abroad
And in the third quarter of this year, it will also launch the BeDee app, which will be an ecosystem platform consisting of 5 parts: Telehealth for seeing doctors, Telepharmacy for finding pharmacies, Tele medicine for prescriptions, Health more for finding pharmaceutical products, and Health Content. Health information knowledge for the BeDee app arose from a collaboration with a startup called CARIVA under PTTEP. There are already 200 doctors on the platform, increasing to 500 before being officially launched to the public in the third quarter of this year. This app will be a one-stop service for health care and treatment. ready to be forwarded to complete hospital treatment
For Tech Startup, the aforementioned projects were selected from the presentations of Startup groups, both Thai Health Tech Startup Association and CU Innovation Hub. will begin to consider knowledge co-founder’s abilities There is a market value (Market size) and there is an opportunity for growth. including whether the strengths of BDMS can be used to support the business or not After being selected, Health Tech will start experimenting with the sandbox project with a success rate of up to 50% because BDMS has rigorously considered the project before being sandboxed.
BDMS creates Thai startups, hoping to turn Thai Health Tech into a unicorn, rather than being a startup project that BDMS supports Dr. Patcharin Boonyarangsan. Assistant Vice President of Sustainable Innovation, BDMS said that before, it was open to both foreign startups and Thai startups, but in the end, when the process reached the final round, BDMS decided to support Thai startups because of their efficiency. Found that they are similar, but Startup can do it at a lower cost. Including when Startup wants to grow (scale up), think of BDMS without fear of being dominated like other venture capital firms or CVC (Corporate Venture Capital). long term The goal is to transform Thai Health Tech into a Unicorn (Unicorn) or a company value of more than US$ 1 billion.
However, 8-9 years ago, BDMS has also piloted the importance of sustainable growth, such as waste management in hospitals. by separating infectious and non-contaminated waste for recycling and to focus on saving energy, such as installing solar rooftops
While the definition of sustainability of BDMS today is to create an organization, society, alliance and country to grow together. through supporting startups in the Health Tech group, as well as wishing Thai people access to good health care without the need for hospitalization
Dr. Patcharin Boonyarangsan Assistant Vice President for Sustainable Innovation, Bangkok Dusit Medical Services Public Company Limited or BDMS said.