A grand finale event with the announcement of winners marked the end of the first phase and the start of the next phase focusing on the deployment of solutions, of Healthcare Innovation Challenge (HIC) #2, which is an initiative of NASSCOM Centre of Excellence CoE-IoT & AI (a MeitY initiative with the state govt) for the digital transformation of Indian healthcare. This one-of-a-kind innovation challenge is aimed at addressing the challenges faced by healthcare providers in digital technology adoption.

The winners announced by the eminent jury are KareXpert (Hospital Automation), Qritive

(AI-based Cancer Diagnosis), Endimension (Centralised Tele-radiology Reporting and Integrating Radiology report into Multimedia Files and Patient Friendly Report), EZDI (Digital Clinical Assistant for Integrating with Legacy EHR), Helyxon and JioVio (Homecare & Patient Monitoring Solutions). LiveHealth, Onward Health, AiraMatrix, TeleRadsol and DeepTek.Ai and Ibis.AI emerged as runners up in their respective use cases.

 The key objectives of the HIC#2 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. The HIC#2 partner hospitals included KIMS Health, Mahajan Imaging, Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute and Research Centre, Sankara Netralaya and Zydus Hospitals and Microsoft as its technology partner.