The pandemic has rapidly increased the adoption of AI in healthcare. And India’s IT sector is showcasing the most effective and innovative uses of AI to address today’s pressing healthcare concerns. To further accelerate India’s AI journey, NASSCOM partnered with Microsoft and EY to conceptualise NASSCOM AI Gamechangers Awards.
Here’s a list of HealthTech companies and startups that made it to the NASSCOM AI Gamechangers 2022 compendium.
11 HealthTech companies and startups in NASSCOM AI Gamechangers 2022 Compendium
- Datafoundry
Datafoundry brings the power of AI and ML to the Life Sciences and Healthcare industry for better health outcomes. With a focus on Pharmacovigilance, Literature Research, Labelling, and Real-World Studies, the Datafoundry team of experts, data scientists and software developers build best-in-class AI models to deliver insights and automate crucial business processes. Their DF mSafety AI, an automated and AI-powered Safety Platform, enables pharma companies and CROs (Contract Research Organisations) to overcome challenges with legacy safety systems.
- InMed Prognostics
In-Med Prognostics is a health-tech firm that develops artificial intelligence and machine learning-based tools to help neuro-radiologists, neuro physicians, and psychiatrists understand the brain and the effects of different brain conditions. Neuroshield™, their proprietary software and cloud platform, uses AI and deep learning to provide a volumetric analysis of the brain MRI. It is a clinical decision-support tool for physicians dealing with neurological disorders. With a reference range developed exclusively for the Indian population, Neuroshield™ can assist doctors in determining anaemia and other non-communicable diseases in the pre-screening stage.
- BrainSight AI
BrainSight AI is a neuroinformatics platform that creates AI-based brain diagnostic tools. Its proprietary tool, VolexBox, uses 3D multimodal imaging, AI and ML to provide a connectomic analysis of the brain. It helps neurosurgeons in presurgical planning and psychiatrists and neurologists in diagnosing mental disorders using MRI scans. VolexBox provides probabilistic tractography, advanced thresholding, Eddy Current Correction, and clear values to understand fibre fragmentation to aid better clinical and research analysis for better decisions.
- Docturnal
Docturnal Private Limited is a point-of-care screening and diagnostics provider. It leverages AI and deep learning to provide non-invasive and real-time results-driven solutions to detect lung ailments. Its flagship product TimBre is a multidirectional solution that screens and monitors Pulmonary Tuberculosis. TimBre app records the sound of the cough along with the patient’s demographic, clinical and socio-economic variables to detect if the cough is TB positive or negative. Docturnal aims to facilitate early screening and monitoring of infectious and non-infectious lung ailments that can be identified by an aural component—like Pneumonia, COVID-19, COPD and Asthma.
- AIRA MATRIX
AIRA MATRIX is a software company providing image analysis and management solutions for preclinical toxicology and pathology applications. The company helps to improve workflow efficiency and increase diagnostic accuracy in research labs, drug discovery studies and clinics with its comprehensive digital pathology solutions. With deep-learning-based platforms that help pathologists analyse large volumes of image data at a faster pace, their decision support tools help focus on relevant study findings. Their flagship deep learning system for prostate cancer diagnosis is hailed by NASSCOM.
- EzeRx
EzeRx is a Med-Tech and Bio-Tech startup that develops and manufactures highly advanced medical devices for the effective management of curative and preventive healthcare. Its proprietary device EzeCheck is a portable and non-invasive primary screening device that detects haemoglobin levels and predicts indicative range for bilirubin, creatinine, SPO2, and blood glucose levels in less than a minute. Affordable and accessible, it is an IoT-enabled device that can serve both rural and urban healthcare needs. Bridging the gap between screening and diagnosis, EzeRx is supported by a range of government and non-government entities like DST, DBT, Ministry of Electronics & IT (MeitY), IndianOil, and Startup Odisha, among others.
- Genpro Research
Genpro Research is a next-gen company that develops AI, ML and NLP-based tools and algorithms that enable the automation of drug development process and post-launch activities for the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical devices industry. Its leading platform, Voody, generates scientific literature automatically using NLP. It helps medical writers reduce cognitive overload and produce quality reports with intuitive workflow and AI-assisted writing.
- Persistent Systems
Persistent Systems Ltd is a trusted digital engineering and enterprise modernization partner to healthcare and life science companies, among others. With deep technical expertise and industry experience, they are advancing healthcare models by combining Federated Learning and Semi-supervised Learning. Their custom Federated Learning platform puts together data science, machine learning, engineering, DevOps, data management and security technologies and makes it transferable across environments and allows hospitals to participate in improving models.
- Aarogya AI
Aarogya AI is a healthtech startup providing precision diagnosis for drug-resistant tuberculosis. Its AI-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform provides comprehensive drug susceptibility reports based on a patient’s DNA sequence. The hybrid ML-based diagnostics pipeline identifies AMR in Mycobacterium tuberculosis whole genome sequences (WGS) to understand patients’ drug resistance. Aarogya AI is on a mission to save lives by combining the benefits of genomics with AI to provide a precision diagnosis for antimicrobial resistance.
- Chest-rAi – L&T technology
L&T’s Chest-rAi, an AI-based chest X-ray radiology suite for symptom detection, localisation and intelligence reporting. It assists radiologists in detecting lung-related abnormalities, thereby increasing the speed and accuracy of diagnosis. Chest-rAi produces preliminary reports with findings adhering to the reporting practices of medical institutions. Currently, it can identify 34 different types of lung symptoms from Chest X-Ray images using AI and correlate them with 15+ types of lung diseases with an accuracy of ~92.3% for ten prominent symptoms.
- Logy.AI
Logy.AI is an AI-based healthtech startup making value-based connected intelligent care a reality. Their flagship software Logy.AI-for-Dentistry is an oral health screening application for population health triaging and timely treatment. The user interacts with Logy.AI’s health screening WhatsApp chatbot and clicks a few images of their mouth using their smartphone, and an AI-generated oral health screening report is created immediately. This enables users to become aware of their oral health at home and connect with clinics and dentists for further treatment. The patented AI models are 95%+ accurate based on the Kantar Trials report.
Conclusion
Recognising the tremendous potential AI offers to healthcare and other sectors, NASSCOM has built its ‘AI for India’ mission. With India emerging as a key destination for AI innovation, we can expect AI to drive India’s next decade of growth and innovation. These are just eleven of the 5000+ Indian healthtech companies and startups making strides in the global healthcare market.
I hope you enjoy reading these stories that cover the most innovative AI solutions by some of the best minds in our country to place India on the world AI map firmly.
– Debjani Ghosh, President, NASSCOM
