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Why Orange Health for Proactive Testing?

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5 min read Last Updated : Dec 16 2022 | 6:30 PM IST

More than half of the common chronic conditions represent themselves with silent symptoms. If you often question what one can do, Orange Health has the answers.

In his wildly popular book, The Body, Bill Bryson, an author of repute, turns his attention inwards to explore the human body. Moving away from travel, he explores the mysteries and science of the human body and its complex workings.

An excerpt from the book reads, “All forms of heart failure can be cruelly sneaky. For about a quarter of victims, the first (and, more unfortunately, last) time they know they have a heart problem is when they suffer a fatal heart attack. No less appallingly, more than half of all first heart attacks (fatal or otherwise) occur in people who are fit and healthy and have no known obvious risks.” He goes on to add that “Living a virtuous life doesn’t guarantee that you will escape heart problems; it just improves your chances.” At Orange Health, they believe there’s more science and fewer mysteries. This is why it becomes imperative to test for health markers more often than one thinks.

Take a few common conditions to explain the case for regular monitoring:

  • A young and physically lean person at his best fitness level went for a Urine test and found sugar traces in the sample. Further investigations like a Kidney Function Test, Insulin Test and HbA1C revealed that he was Diabetic. While for the initial few years, Diabetes may not affect a fit person the way it will affect an overweight person, it slowly and surely affects the functioning of all critical organs and hence better to pay heed and work to improve the fundamentals incrementally.

  • Thyroid Function Test (TFT). Did you know that the thyroid gland controls all the hormones in your body and that makes it an important test? Each time one picks up a newspaper or puts on a TV channel, it is common to hear of young deaths, freak accidents and stories of seemingly healthy people taking ill.

  • Marathons, concerts and sporting events are also places to hear of something going wrong with athletes and extremely fit people like celebrities who have a team of people looking after them. Too much water, too little water, too many carbs, too much fat, blocked arteries; why throw arrows in the dark when running some simple tests can diagnose the state of your bodily functions. It may look to be on autopilot and taken for granted, but given the lifestyles people lead these days and the deteriorating quality of air, water and soil, monitoring and medical assistance can help each and everyone with longevity.

  • Most tests are interconnected and only a doctor/healthcare professional knows how to best read them even if they are within the normal range, more so when out of range. Before a chronic condition represents itself, the answers to what exactly is happening inside the body is answered in diagnostic results. Everyone should use science and scientific development to their advantage to lead a quality life. Orange Health's doctor-first approach allows them to work in tandem with the Doctors to provide medical care to patients, real fast.

    Started by Dhruv Gupta and Tarun Bhambra in 2020, Orange Health is a tech-first Diagnostics Lab that is disrupting the diagnostics industry in India. The founders work with a sense of urgency when it comes to providing this step to consumers when they or their loved ones are unwell or at discomfort. They believe that in a post covid world, it is not understandable why people would want to go to an infectious centre in a crowded area for their diagnostic needs. Even more so, when Orange Health, India's fastest diagnostic lab, with at-home sample collection in 60 minutes and report delivery in 6 hours is the simplest and most responsive way to go about diagnostic needs.

    So what is the secret to their speed and accuracy? They use a multipronged approach like:

    • State of the art lab with dry chemistry equipments. Example: Vitrose. Few individual players in India today boast of this machine. It ensures error-free testing.

    • Highly qualified eMedics who undergo additional 100 hour training and certification for a painless one prick sample collection. They are trained for difficult cases with varying vein sizes, pressure conditions or past complications.

    • Furthermore, each city has trained and experienced paediatric eMedics for sample collection of little children

    • It is because of a highly specialised logistics process that the ‘vein to machine time’ at Orange Health is only 3 hours.

  • A customised software helps the delivery team take the shortest and the fastest route.

  • Attention is paid to details. Like samples are transported to the laboratory from respective hubs at optimal temperatures. Imperative to note here is that the technicians don't wait for more samples for batch delivery and batch testing.

  • Tech-first approach allows doctors, technicians and others to work late into the night for immediate report sharing.

  • By removing the anxiety associated with waiting, Orange Health is committed to delivering Real Care, Real Fast.

    Topics : health

    First Published: Dec 16 2022 | 6:30 PM IST

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