Tricog Health: Health: Applies AI and medical expertise to enhance and empower cardiac care!

Heart attack is the leading cause of death around the world. Health officials’ concern deepens as cardiovascular disease is affecting the youngsters along with the adults. They are seen to be suffering and complaining from heart-related issues. Sedentary lifestyle, dietary choices, hypertension are some of the major causes that have heightened the risk factors for heart attacks among the young.

Still and all, awareness about heart attack symptoms, self-care, early and accurate diagnosis can help people prevent or reduce the cause of cardiovascular diseases. Tricog Health has been at the forefront to save the lives of young and adults by empowering physicians with technology solutions. The cornerstone of Tricog Health is laid by Dr. Charit Bhograj. He along with healthcare and technology pundits Dr. Zainul Charbiwala, Dr. Udayan Dasgupta, and Abhinav Gujjar worked towards addressing the challenges caused due to the inaccessibility of appropriate preliminary diagnosis (ECG). The pillars of the startup brought their expertise together in discovering and developing cutting-edge solutions that support Virtual Cardiology Services to remote clinics.

Known to be the world’s largest predictive healthcare analytics firm, Tricog Health uses advanced AI algorithms to improve survival rates of heart attacks by decreasing the average time between symptoms and treatment. The teams of Tricog Health has designed devices such as:

InstaECG: A cloud-connected ECG service that analyzes, interprets and provides Cardiac expert Certified ECG reports in 10 minutes.

InstaEcho: This helps doctors to get quick and accurate echocardiogram diagnosis in matter.

Tricog Health’s medical contrivances have proven to be instrumental in saving treatment time, expediting the process and accuracy of remote care, and saving lives. The startup has been extending free ECG Interpretation within 10 minutes, 24×7 throughout the COVID 19 pandemic.

Tricog health is among the six startups that were selected by GE Healthcare under its India Edison Accelerator Programme-a first-of-its-kind initiative that aims to co-create technology solutions that will enable healthcare providers to deliver precision health, aiming to accelerate the transformation of the healthcare industry. The startup is enabled to work with healthcare industry experts from within and outside GE on their product development for six months; build and scale their technologies for the targeted market.

GE Healthcare had set up a partnership with Tricog Health in the year 2015 and ever since then, they embarked on the mission of identifying and mitigating roadblocks facing healthcare quality and delivery. Tricog was the first startup on-boarded on the GE Healthcare accelerator program five. eight. This partnership led to the creation of Cloud-connected ECG devices in indigent areas to help physicians detect heart complications. The solution has reached the remotest of areas and saved thousands of patients. In a span of six years, this Bangalore-based startup has deployed its products and solutions in more than 14+ countries, served 6 million+ patients, saved 200 K+ lives, and empowered above 12Kmedical professionals worldwide. It has a strong client base that includes customers like Apollo Hospitals, Metropolis, Manipal Hospital, Max Healthcare, Neuberg diagnostics, Fortis, and many others.

In 2020, this AI-driven health-tech firm received a funding of $10.5 million in a Series B funding round from UTEC – The University of Tokyo Edge Capital, Japan; Aflac Ventures, LLC, Japan; TeamFund, USA and Dream Incubator, Japan. After a year of its establishment, the company has raised an undisclosed amount in Series A funding from Inventus Capital Partners, Blume Ventures, and a group of angel investors (2016).

Tricog laid the cornerstone of its journey in 2015, and in its six years tenure it brought off awe-inspiring researches and innovations. The outstanding initiatives have won the startup prestigious awards and recognition. It has been honoured by the NASSCOM Artificial Intelligence Game Changer Award 2018 & AI for Good, conducted by the Centre of Excellence in association with the Government of Karnataka. The Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY Startup Grand Challenge selected Tricog Health for its best startup in the category, “Ensuring Quality of Care.” It has also won first place in the ET Startup Awards 2019, Accenture Healthtech Innovation Challenge (Regional Finalist 2018), a Software product of the Year -Express IT Award 2019, Draper Venture Network for the Most Innovative DVN Company2018, and more.

Tricog Health remains positive about exploring healthcare technology to shape the future of health and healthcare.

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