Apollo Clinic collaborates with Niramai to provide contactless breast cancer screening service

Niramai Health Analytix, India’s foremost and innovative Artificial Intelligence-based breast cancer screening company has tied-up with Apollo Clinic, India’s leading multi-speciality clinics by Apollo Health and Lifestyle (AHLL), to offer contact-less, privacy-sensitive, breast cancer screening services to customers.

The screening services will be initially available at all Apollo Clinic clinics across Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai and Pune and will be ramped up pan-India in the due course.

People will now be able to get themselves screened for their annual preventive breast screening and regular breast health check-ups. The test is appropriate for women 18 years and above and is privacy-aware, non-invasive, radiation-free and can detect the minutest of lumps or abnormalities.

People can avail the screening service either at the various Apollo Clinic locations or can even book home-screening services through their nearest Apollo Clinic centre.

Niramai’s proprietary solution ‘Thermalytix’ uses a high-resolution thermal sensing device and a cloud-hosted analytics solution for analyzing thermal images using big data analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning for reliable, early and accurate breast cancer screening. This solution has led to nine US granted patents and several prestigious awards.

Anand Wasker, Chief Operating Officer, Apollo Clinic, said, “We provide all Primary Healthcare services under one roof via Apollo Clinic format and are committed to offering world-class healthcare services to our customers. We are delighted to partner with an innovative company like Niramai to offer early stage breast screening that will benefit our customers.”

Dr Geetha Manjunath, Founder and CEO, Niramai, added, “Our mission is to create a universal cancer screening solution to enable early detection of abnormalities even before a symptom appears which dramatically reduces treatment cost, increases treatment effectiveness and most importantly provide a healthy life to people. We are excited to partner with Apollo Clinic to take our clinically proven Thermalytix screening service to many more women in India and save lives.”

Niramai Health Analytix is a deep-tech company with expertise in thermal imaging and AI. They have developed an innovative AI Engine called Thermalytix™ which enables a radiation-free, non-invasive, non-touch, breast cancer screening solution for hospitals and diagnostic centres. NIRAMAI has recently also developed a new solution called FeverTest for Automated COVID Screening leveraging its expertise in thermal imaging and AI.

The innovative machine learning techniques used in Niramai’s solution have led to 9 US granted patents. Niramai has won many awards including the Gold prize in Hack Osaka 2019, Aegis Graham Bell Award, Frost and Sullivan Award and have been part of accelerators such as Google Launchpad, Philips Healthworks, Nvidia Inception, BIRAC Winner, Elevate 100 and others. Niramai is the only Indian company listed on the 2019 Top AI 100 startups in the world announced by CB Insights.

Apollo Clinic is a network of multi-speciality clinics run by Apollo Health & Lifestyle Limited (AHLL), a subsidiary of Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Limited (AHEL). AHLL is one of the largest players in the retail healthcare segment in India.

– Team Mysoorunews