Chennai: Healthcare Technology Innovation Centre (HTIC), a research and development centre established through a joint initiative of IIT, Madras and the department of biotechnology, will partner with National Instruments (NI), a US company that produces automated test equipment and virtual instrumentation software, to develop affordable and high-impact medical devices.
HTIC director Mohanasankar S signed a memorandum of understanding with Jayaram Pillai, managing director of National Instruments, India, Russia and Arabia, for the collaboration. The collaboration will extend to fields like patient monitoring, cardiovascular screening, surgical oncology and neonatal care.
NI will fund and provide software and hardware. Mohanasankar said, "NI's design and development platforms will allow us to shorten the time from idea to prototype, and quickly move the device for field testing and validation, which is crucial in med-tech R&D."
Jayaram Pillai of NI said, "We will support HTIC's initiatives with NI's graphical system design platform for product development and large scale deployment of affordable healthcare devices for emerging countries."
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