The challenge looked out for innovations to address primary healthcare challenges in India
PATH India has announced the winners of the PHC Tech Challenge. The inaugural PHC Tech Challenge was launched in March 2021 in partnership with the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platform, Social Alpha, Swasth, ACT, Stanford Byers Centre for Biodesign, and The Stanford Centre for Innovation in Global Health.
The objective of the PHC Tech Challenge 2021 was to bring promising MedTech, cold chain and digital health innovations from across the globe to key stakeholders including the government, health agencies, donors, development partners, private-sector organisations and providers, etc to advance primary health care and improve health outcomes in India and similar low-and-middle-income countries.
After a rigorous selection process, that involved evaluation of more than 115 applications, 17 groundbreaking innovations from countries like India, the US, Canada, China, the UK and the Netherlands with the most potential to create significant impact in public health have been selected as winners. A wireless temperature monitoring system for cold chain equipment, and affordable smartphone-based ultrasound, an automated and portable breast cancer screening test are a few of the promising innovative solutions that have been selected.
The PHC Tech Challenge is part of PATH’s mission to make Universal Health Coverage 2030 a reality as it reimagines primary health care through a people-centred, innovation-driven approach that provides health care access to the most vulnerable and gives everyone a fair chance at good health and well-being.
