2018-09-01 Bio Spectrum

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HealthSignz, a Bengaluru-Hyderabad based healthtech startup, founded
by a team of four Industry veterans Hanumantha Rao (Hanu), Dr Vinod
P Nair, Dr Ram Papa Rao and Surendranath, recently announced, their
$ 5 million funding led by Dr Kantilal Patel, founder of Nirvana Health
Group – New Zealand’s largest primary healthcare group. Intended as a
mobile health solution, HealthSignz is an AI driven healthcare platform
built for every individual, to be their trusted personal health companion
from the “cradle to grave”.
Their proprietary Health
Intelligence Engine (HIE)
uses medical heuristic and
deductive medical intelligence
with AI & Machine Learning
to enhance healthcare at all
operational levels enabling an
inclusive healthcare ecosystem.
HealthSignz’s ability to tap
into the specific needs of all
healthcare stakeholders in the
gamut- Hospitals, Pharma,
Diagnostics, Wellness, Healthcare devices & essentials distinguishes it
from other healthtech players in the ecosystem. The medical intelligence
coupled with HealthSignz’s Clinical Decision Support technologies enables
the ‘Shift Left’ method of treatment to increase the reach of real-time
and efficient medical care to more users. HealthSignz’s mobile-centric
platform provides the most seamless consumer onboarding. For the first
time, a digital Health platform which will assist every health provider
in the gamut to adopt and start the digital health journey to serve their
consumers more efficiently and well beyond their physical setups.
AI driven startup
HealthSignz secures $5M
NextGen
Science Media
lifts Rs 1Cr
seed funding
Bengaluru based healthtech
firm, HealthTech has raised $
million from IDG Ventures India
and Kalaari Capital in its Series
A round. The startup will utilise
the funds to further strengthen
its technology to assist doctors
better and expand its team and
services in other geographical
markets. It is a first of its kind
healthcare technology that brings
transformative change in the way
diseases are treated in the Indian
outpatient care.
HealthPlix is a healthtech
platform that helps doctors
increase their efficiency and
productivity by digitally assisting
them in their Clinics and Hospital
OPDs. Further, the software allows
the doctors to give prescriptions
in more than 18 languages which
significantly helps in attaining
better patient compliance to
treatment. More than 1.2 million
patients are treated by doctors in
150 cities across 20 states using
HealthPlix EMR. For HealthPlix,
60 per cent of their user base is
in tier 2, tier 3 towns and beyond.
HealthPlix software is lot more
than just an EMR. Its assistive-
AI goes 4 levels deep. It adapts to
doctors’ specialty, their practice
preference, patient’s disease and
the stage of the disease.
HealthTech firm HealthPlix raises $3M
NextGen Science Media
(NGSM), a start-up media
venture that focuses on
emerging medical science
and technology trends for
new-age clinicians, raised its
first round of funding from
Singapore-based Emerge
Ventures, DC Books India
and a group of individual
investors. The company
raised Rs 1 crore as seed
capital, which will be used
to develop and launch high
quality medical science and
news content in print and
digital formats in India.
NGSM’s key focus is to
generate and disseminate
high quality content on latest
and emerging developments
in the field of medical science
and healthcare technologies
as well as industry trends
for the clinicians, medical
researchers, students and key
decision makers in healthcare
management. NGSM has
unveiled its maiden product
recently- India’s first medical
science and technology news
magazine, titled Future
Medicine.

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