Covid-19 second wave: Global start-ups reach out with healthtech solutions

Developed economies like the US and the UK have been using central repositories for decades

As the world collaborates to help India in its fight against Covid-19, many global healthtech firms are pitching in with technology. This is besides the initiatives by heads of Apple, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Walmart, Accenture, and other public and private organisations that have launched a global task force mainly to source and ship oxygen concentrators and ventilators to India as it battles Covid-19.

Central repository of medical data

One of the things throwing challenges before doctors in India is the absence of a central repository of medical data of patients, especially in such a crisis when time is of the essence and