IIT-Guwahati
GUWAHATI: A team of research scholars of the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati (IIT-G) has developed a digital health system that can offer healthcare to a large population, especially in remote areas.
Mitali Basak, a 3rd year PhD student at the Centre for Nanotechnology, IIT Guwahati, and Shirsendu Mitra, former PhD scholar at the department of chemical engineering, IIT Guwahati, teamed up for the innovation at the Global Charm Health Innovation Challenge in the category ‘student innovators’. Mitra is currently an Early Career Fellow at IIT Gandhinagar.
The bench top digital setup is integrated with an algorithm to record initial screening parameters like body temperature, pulse rate, eye and tongue analysis of a patient remotely.