After the success of first two editions, the NASSCOM Centre of Excellence (COE)- IOT & AI) has announced the launch of third edition of Healthcare Innovation Challenge (HIC#3).

In this one-of-its-kind case drive programme, there is strong participation from Hospitals, Diagnostic Chains, Insurance Players, pharma companies and govt. delegates, technology enterprises and Deeptech startups.

While previous editions were focused primarily on hospitals, the HIC#3 has attracted interest from insurance players and technology players, who are coming onboard as use-case sponsors.

Going forward such broad-based deployment participation is going to accelerates the digital technology impact in healthcare sector towards the vision of $1 trillion digital economy as defined by The Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY).

In this edition of HIC, the use cases have been nominated in different areas which include automated credit business settlement, inpatient volume prediction based on outpatient volume,  early detection of microbes,  prescription digitalisation using voice recognition, comprehensive patient care , OPD automation,  preventive health checkup tracking,  AI-based surgical video, recording & reporting and cashless OPD expense management.