Introduction

We develop innovations on healthcare topics related both to global medical needs as well as solutions for India-specific healthcare problems. Our approach is from a distributed software systems point of view as well as point of care devices that address the needs of patients and healthcare workers in the emerging markets for purposes that include screening, diagnosis and disease management. One set of solutions aims at new screening and diagnostic means for cancer based on tissue and molecular level data. Another key area aims at early screening of heart and lung diseases by analyzing physiological signals emitted by the respective organs. We also envisage the use of digital pathology enabled by advanced pattern recognition to modernize clinical diagnostics in areas such as infectious diseases. We accomplish this by clinical and theoretical investigations, computational system evaluation, simulations and measurements on input data and realized models in an open-innovation environment with research and clinical partners in India as well as China, Europe and USA.

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