GE Healthcare has funded a three year $150,000 project to develop affordable medical technologies in the areas of cardiovascular care, oncology and maternal and child healthcare. The project will identify, assess and evaluate appropriate technology solutions and then, create equipment accordingly.
Professor Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam, Head, Healthcare Technology Innovation Centre (HTIC), IIT-Madras said that the collaboration is to address issues related to mother and child health, cardiology and cancer. “This collaboration between HTIC and GE Healthcare will bring together start-up dynamism and corporate scalability to healthcare innovations while putting the unserved customer at the center of healthcare innovation,” said Terri Bresenham, president and CEO, GE Healthcare, South Asia.