Efforts to develop low cost solutions are paying off for tech firms.

A patient in a rural area required immediate electrocardiography but as soon as the nurse at the local Government hospital started operating the machine, there was a power failure. Time lost while switching for such patients. But thanks to frugal engineering being done in India by companies like GE, Intel and Cisco, low cost solutions to deal with such situations are now at hand.

For example, GE Healthcare is investing in one of the most technologically challenging products in the medical diagnostics world with new Computerised Tomography or CAT Scan...................Read more

Source: PressReader