Page 132 - Apollo Book complete

Clinical Apollo Consultants’
2019 Telemedicine CSR Academics Recognition Research
Excellence Homecare Achievements

ARI Vision stem cell research proposals as per DBT-ICMR
guidelines. The committees are registered with
The vision of ARI is to foster innovation in technology, National Apex Committee (NAC) and Department of
therapy, processes and business models to achieve Biotechnology (DBT). The chairpersons of the
greater access, affordable costs and global quality respective committees at each institution ensure the
standards. conduct of meetings as per the standard protocols to
review all stem cell related projects.
Work Scope
Experiences in Clinical Trials
ARI works across a diverse set of focus areas namely –
clinical studies, clinical research training program, ARI has vast experience in ethical conduct of clinical
evaluation and/or pre-market validation studies, trials, clinical research studies, registries and data
device and software validation studies and co- collection studies, validation studies, investigator
development, basic and translational research, public initiated research studies, non-clinical studies, basic
health studies, personalized medication and research studies and translational research studies.
healthcare innovation through creative collaborations ARI has the experience of conducting over 1150
clinical studies over the last 19 years across 17
Clinical Research- Overview locations Pan India. Eight percent of these studies are
in Phase II, 65% in Phase III, 21% in phase IV and the
Institutional Ethics Committee
rest 6% are registries/data collection studies for trials
• Institutional Ethics Committee – Clinical Studies in cardiology, oncology, diabetology, neurology,
orthopaedics, nephrology, and other therapeutic
ARI provides expert advice and recommendations to disciplines. Currently 150 clinical trials are on-going in
the research sites on various aspects of ethical the fields of oncology, cardiology, nephrology and
conduct of clinical research. This enables the centres other therapeutic areas.
to comply with the stringent regulatory changes. The
ethics committees are registered with DCGI. The Device Studies
ethics committees at the following Apollo Hospitals
locations- Ahmadabad, Bhubaneswar, Chennai, ASHA+ commercialised at Apollo Hospitals - ARI
Hyderabad, Madurai and New Delhi have received successfully conducted a validation study of vitals
their NABH accreditation. monitoring device ASHA+ at Apollo Hospitals
Chennai. The study showed a seamless connectivity
• Institutional Ethics Committee – Bio Medical with the current point of care (POC) devices being
Research used at Apollo Hospitals for vitals monitoring. About
1000 participants were tested on parameters such as
As per the latest regulatory guidelines, ARI at various
temperature, blood pressure, heart rate, oxygen
centres has constituted a separate ethics committee
saturation, random blood sugar, ECG, stethoscope.
for biomedical research in compliance with ICMR
ASHA+ is currently being used by Apollo Telehealth
guidelines. This committee reviews proposals
pertaining to the academic, collaborative research Services (ATHS) for providing early screening and
diagnosis of non-communicable diseases.
proposals, investigator driven research studies and
healthcare research. CNOGA– A validation study was conducted to
evaluate the performance of TensorTip MTX in
• Institutional Committee for Stem Cell Research
comparison to standard POC devices used at Apollo
(IC-SCR)
Hospitals in measuring the vital signs. The novel non-
IC-SCR has been formed at Apollo Hospitals at invasive fingertip device measured six vital parameters
Chennai and New Delhi to review and approve the based on real time colour image sensor by

131