Redefining Telemedicine Dynamics

Sensors, mobile app, cloud service and intervention are the major components of a telemedicine solution

 

- Anusha Ashwin

For many years now, the incorporation of information technology and telecommunication in the field of medicine has broken grounds and is doing wonders. But, deploying those technologies do have limitations in a country like India where the medical infrastructure and facilities are categorized into many types. Currently, med-tech entrepreneurs are interested in developing cost-effective devices for Primary Health Centers, where majority of the Indian population seek medical assistance. As primary health care centers are largely ill-equipped in taking life-saving decisions, especially cardiovascular-related diagnosis, start-up entrepreneurs have found a large untapped market to develop IoT-based devices that can help doctors diagnose better.

Ashim Roy and Avin Agarwal are among those start-up entrepreneurs who saw tremendous opportunity in combining their information technology knowledge with medical technology to create an IoT device suited for primary health care centers.

Both Roy and Agarwal combined their expertise to form a healthcare diagnostics company called uber Diagnostics with Cardiotrack as their flagship product. The entrepreneurs incorporated the company in 2014 with a mission to reduce the cost of diagnosis through innovation in product design and enhancements in healthcare workflow. As the key challenges faced by healthcare providers include high cost of diagnostic equipment and lack of trained professionals, especially in semi-urban areas, uber Diagnostics is addressing both these issues through an evolved technology in medical electronics, data analytics, cloud storage and diagnostics workflow management. CoFounder Ashim Roy, shares the technology; working of the product, its reach; and future plans in an interaction with Voice&Data.

How it all began?