New Delhi: The sixth edition of health care IT and clinical research company IQVIA‘s India Hackathon recently held saw more than 150 ideas and solutions submitted by employees. The teams used technologies such as AI, ML, Natural Language Processing (NLP), and IoT to solve complex healthcare challenges. Solutions ranged from AI disease detection and prediction to innovative ways to bring new treatments to market faster, to developing apps and bots to improve patient care.
The team of Deepak Gulia, Namit Giriyapanavar, Thikshaya M and Tejas Mokal won the grand prize worth Rs 2 lakh. They are all part of the AI and machine learning Center of Excellence at IQVIA. Deepak, who led the team, says they developed a unique AI-powered virtual avatar to provide zero-distance healthcare for patients. He you have an avatar You can do live interactions with patients and providers so that healthcare reaches remote and underdeveloped areas with a shortage of trained healthcare professionals.
Some of the interesting solutions from other finalist teams that won consolation prizes were:
* An interactive and explainable AI platform for disease detection;
* Automatic AI platform to build and train complex AI models at scale;
* AI/ML-NLP powered talent acquisition platform to ease the hiring process for human data science
