Pediatric care in India is currently broken and fragmented and to address this key issue, SKIDS is building India's largest network of pediatric clinics that offers integrated healthcare services across physical, behavioral and social health of children. SKIDS is taking an integrated approach to pediatric care that includes screening, diagnostics and specialist interventions to help schools and parents improve the health outcomes of their children. SKIDS offers an innovative approach that includes world-class technology with accuracy and privacy at the core that is effective and approved by FDA (Food and Drug Administration-USA, CE and APA (American Psychological Association).??

How Skids is empowering families to protect their kids through customized healthcare services??

The current pediatric care model is 'event' focused particularly around the event of sickness, illness or immunization. In simpler terms - we take our kids to doctors when they are sick or ill, and there is a big blank space between these events. And even when we take kids to doctors, we focus on the sickness the child is going through at that particular time, with less or no focus on understanding the growth and health of other bodily functions such as eyes, ears, heart, lungs, oral health or psychological factors such as anxiety, ADHD, autism, depression among others. SKIDS is building a clinic network with a strong digital presence that offers the highest standards of care outcomes - whether kids are at home, at school or at play. SKIDS screens kids for more than 70+ parameters across physical and behavioral health that helps to uncover any early warning signals and incorporate specialist interventions to reverse or cure any underlying conditions before they become irreversible or severe that may impede the quality of life.?

How Skids is addressing pediatric care by deploying world-class medical-grade non-invasive and kid-friendly technology for holistic preventive and specialist care for kids.??

At SKIDS, we believe technology with a doctor-in-the-loop can vastly improve the care outcomes, however a lot of technology that is currently used by care-givers is either consumer-grade, inaccurate or not kids friendly.??

As an example, In India, 58.5% percent of children between the age of 6?months to 5?years were anemic during 2015–2016 as per a survey by the International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) and ICF. However, the current mechanisms for anemia screening are either subjective such as color comparison of eyes or skin; or kid unfriendly such as needle prick based blood tests. At SKIDS, we do a highly accurate non-invasive anemia test using FDA approved solution that is accurate, fast and as easy as doing pulse oximetry.??

Another case worth highlighting is vision issues amongst children. In India 23-30% of children suffer from myopia and in majority of cases, caregivers such as parents or teachers come to know of vision issues very late, once the vision deterioration has set in. The conventional method followed for vision screening is visual acuity test which is time consuming, subjective and misses on other important vision issues such as amblyopia also known as lazy eye, strabismus etc., which if remain undetected can cause serious permanent vision impairment. At SKIDS, we use world-class auto refraction based technology which is similar to almost taking a selfie and in less than 30 seconds, we are able to detect seven parameters related to vision health.?

How Technology has reshaped the future of the health and wellness industry?

Technology has certainly advanced in recent times and is helping caregivers make better judgement that may surely have an impact on the healthspan of children. However, a lot of technology that is consumer grade and is not scientifically reviewed, has a problem of garbage-in and garbage-out. At SKIDS, we only deploy technology that has been peer reviewed and clinically proven to work with high accuracy and highest clinical standards and yet is simple to use and assist doctors in making better judgement of the health and wellness of children.??