| | November 20208WHY DATA COLLECTION IS GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTHBy Sekaran Letchumanan, Vice President ­ Operations, Flex Indiaroperly treating patients is a two-way street. The patient must follow pre-scribed treatment, and the doctor needs full transparency to make the right ad-justments and determine the next steps. Despite the patients' best efforts, the process leaves a lot of room for human error.We research, develop and invest in modern tech-nologies, such as sensors, IoT platforms and more, that are transforming the healthcare industry. The technol-ogy's ability to help capture passive data will have a big impact on success. Passive data works best Patients are people, which means they may not have the best follow-through when it comes to their health plan, whether it involves a prescribed medication regi-men or lifestyle change. And when doctors receive in-accurate or incomplete information, both parties are at risk.Studies have shown that when patients need to follow specific directions on their own, compliance declines increasingly with each additional step, to the point that only 50% of patients take their medicine as prescribed. Lifestyle change compliance is even worse. Medical professionals are turning to passive data collection to identify and adjust for these missteps. Connected devices record and report on relevant pa-tient activity, helping patients stay on track and helping IN MY OPINIONPSekaran Letchumanan
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