How MeitY-NASSCOM CoE fuels Easiofy's AI-imaging leap

Easiofy, an AI-powered imaging platform, built by three women founders-Meenal Gupta, Noor Fatma and Sheetal Tarkas - and now deployed across resource- and radiologist-scare areas in India, is proof that deep-tech startups can solve real-world healthcare challenges, at scale, with ecosystem enablers like the MeitY-NASSCOM Centre of Excellence. From automated radiology workflows to neurosurgical triage tools, Easiofy's journey shows how CoE-supported innovation, steered by stalwarts like Sudhanshu Mittal, Head & Director, Technical Solutions, MeitY-NASSCOM CoE, is quietly reshaping India's healthcare infrastructure

- Viveka Roychowdhury

At the newly opened Jan Swastha Kendra in Mohaba, an elderly man walked in, asking how long the clinic would remain open, before hurrying back home to bring his daughter-in-law. Hours later, he returned with her, worried about her persistent cough.

The teleconsultant doctor advised a chest X-ray, and within seconds of the scan, healthtech startup Easiofy's AI-powered platform processed the image and confirmed that her lungs were clear — it was only an allergy.

Medicines were prescribed, the old man was relieved to know it wasn’t something serious. He had no idea that behind the seamless care stood an algorithm assisting the doctor.

This is just one case study cited by the Easiofy team, of how their AI-powered platform takes imaging expertise deep into India’s hinterland, bridging the gap between the lack of radiologists and the growing need for imaging diagnosis.

Impressed by the impact of their work, Prime Minister Narendra Modi called the three co-founders the “Teen Deviyaan”— because as goddesses, their AI platform has granted good health to patients and strengthened rural health systems.

Today, Easiofy’s “Teen Deviyaan” - Meenal Gupta, founder and CEO, Noor Fatma, co-founder & CTO, and Sheetal Tarkas, co-founder and COO, are an example of how deep-tech is solving real world on-the-ground challenges in India's healthcare ecosystem.

Tarkas narrates how Easiofy was born out of a painful personal experience, when Fatma's father was diagnosed with cancer during COVID. As sharing data was not feasible, diagnosis and treatment were delayed. The founders, who knew each other for more than two decades, (Gupta and Fatma were colleagues in HCLTech, while Gupta was Tarkas’ senior in college) decided to find a solution, combining their skills in AI-ML (Gupta and Fatma) and data analysis (Tarkas) to build a platform where they could share data, and use AI to diagnose diseases.