NASSCOM Centre of Excellence (COE)- IoT & AI) announced the launch of the Healthcare Innovation Challenge (HIC) 3.0. In this one-of-its-kind case drive event, there is strong participation from Hospitals, Diagnostic Chains, Insurance Players, pharma companies, and govt. delegates, technology enterprises, and Deeptech startups. The objective of HIC 3.0 is to evangelize the challenges in healthcare, invite innovative solutions relevant to participating entities, and enable them to explore the deployment towards the vision of a $1 trillion digital economy defined by The Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY).
Sudhanshu Mittal, Head & Director -Technical Solutions, NASSCOM Centre of Excellence IoT & AI, Gurugram, said, “The healthcare challenges in India are huge which cannot be met through the organic growth. Digital technology has a central role to play in addressing those challenges by enabling exponential scaling. The Center of Excellence – IoT & AI is committed to bringing innovative solutions to its platform, but also needs the support from user community which needs to open up to the digital technology adoption and be ready to mentor the developer community so that we can have indigenous solutions to our problems.”
The key objectives of HIC 3.0 include driving operational excellence by enabling automation of administrative processes and digitization of clinical workflows through the adoption of digital technology solutions; enabling healthcare providers to nominate use cases as per the digital solution needs and driving the program to enable the curation, evaluation & deployment of technology-led Innovative solutions that address the nominated use cases.