Volume 3 | Issue 3 | July-September 2018
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enmark-based
company
Oticon, a giant hearing
solution
manufacturer
has
launched the world’s first
hearing
fitness
tracking
technology that helps track
hearing aid use and provides
insights you can use to optimise
your health. The app is based on
big data analytics that combine
lifestyle and healthcare data
with local sound environment
analysis and is designed to
measure the impact of one’s
hearing on their health. This
app was declared the winner of
the 2018 CES Innovation Award
in the software and mobile apps
category. Health Fitness gives
advice and encouragement to
help users hear better and stay
healthy.
women, which makes a solution
like this a welcome one. NIRAMAI
uses a high-resolution thermal
sensing device that scans the
chest area like a camera. It then
uses
cloud-hosted
analytics
solution for analysing the
thermal images. Its SaaS solution
uses big data analytics, artificial
intelligence
and
machine
learning for reliable, early and
accurate breast cancer screening.
The innovative methods used
in the solution have led to
multiple US patents, and their
novel algorithms have also been
peer-reviewed in international
scientific conferences. The start-
up has already started two clinical
trials with established hospitals.
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FITNESS APP
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NIRAMAI: A NOVEL
BREAST CANCER
SCREENING SOLUTION
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his Bangalore-based start-up,
founded in 2016, uses artificial
intelligence for a pain-free breast
cancer screening. Recently, it
had successfully raised money to
scale up its efforts.The screening
method can detect tumours five
times smaller than what clinical
examination can detect. It is a
safe, non-touch, radiation-free,
and low-cost method. Since
its cost-effective and does not
require heavy equipment this
solution seems to be ideal for
smaller towns where affordable
healthcare is the need of the hour.
Mammography works only for
women over 40 and increasingly
there has been a prevalence
of breast cancer among young
50,000 digital medical records to
doctors and patients every day. The
start-up works with more than 650
diagnostic centres across India and
Africa to automate their operations
i.e. to manage patients, financial
transactions etc.
his is an endeavour to make
medical reports smarter. This
Pune-based start-up, founded in 2013,
works as a management information
system for healthcare providers
by using Artificial Intelligence to
process a huge data of medical
records and ERP transactions. The
system collects samples, manages
patient records, diagnoses them,
generates reports and aids in billing
and inventory, making the process
smarter and more efficient. In
nutshell, it’s an effort that digitises
diagnostic lab workflows through
its SaaS platform and makes them
available on the cloud to patients and
doctors. Doctors and consultants
get access to their patient records
using a mobile app and the patients
can use the app to understand their
reports, analyse their past health
data and monitor their health using
trackers. Recently the company
has raised US$1.1 mil from Nexus
Venture Partners which it intends
to use to expand its platform across
India, explore international markets
and to strengthen the product and
technology. LiveHealth's platform
has digitised more than 72 million
records, so far, and is delivering over
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