Small group of innovators in India finds ways to bring down medical bills

If the current scope of innovations is anything to go by, India is on the path to setting an example for the world

Nikita Puri 

Not very long ago at M S Ramaiah Hospitals, a patient who came in with a minor cardiac issue developed bradycardia. While a healthy heart clocks between 60 and 100 beats a minute, his started beating below 30. “We could revive him because the resident doctor who was in another ward got an audio alert and shifted him to the ICU in time.

A temporary pacemaker was installed,” says Anil Kumar, professor and head of medicine at the Bengaluru-based hospital. The audio alert was sent out through a cloud-based patient monitoring system by Stasis, a city-based start-up. Stasis ...

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First Published: Fri, November 23 2018. 20:46 IST