Tech-startups ruling the healthcare world in times of the pandemic
Aarthi N On April 25, 2020, a government hospital in Ernakulam, in Kerala, deployed a robot named ‘KARMI-Bot’ to serve food and medicines to Covid-19 patients to minimise the need for health workers to meet the patients. This robot was developed by ASIMOV Robotics, a company that is working under the Maker Village of Kerala startup mission. With Covid-19 continuing to spread, many healthcare startups have come up with solutions, many of them driven by artificial intelligence, to overcome the limitations of conventional healthcare as people often hesitate to visit a hospital or meet a doctor. Some of the startups offer apps for online consultation, easy monitoring of blood sugar, BP, oxygen level, voice sampling and wearable devices to detect Covid-19, maintaining patient records for doctors, the patient’s mental state, and speech-based interface, etc. Some of the products are so efficient that doctors have started to recommend patients to use them at home....
