How ISRO intends to revolutionise India’s healthcare

ISRO's technology spin-off in handling the interaction of its man, machine, and surrounding environmental conditions has the potential to be useful for the healthcare sector of India. With inputs from ISRO, it has already helped in developing cheaper artificial limbs, left ventricular assist, artificial jaws, and ventilators, among other things.
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KEY HIGHLIGHTS
  • With ISRO's tech input more cost-effective medical equipment have been made.
  • Pilot program in two hospitals in Bengaluru and Chennai yielded positive results.
New Delhi: QUEST that is Quality Upgradation Enabled through Space Technology of ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) will help 11 hospitals across the country in improving their safety, quality, and reliability.
With the Health-QUEST, ISRO will show healthcare professionals on how the premier space agency handles the interaction of man, machine, and environment in its potential human spaceflight programs.
The technology involved in ISRO’s Health-QUEST is a kind of spin-off of space programs tech. It has helped develop cost-effective artificial limbs, left ventricular assist, artificial jaws, and ventilators, among other things.
Both manned and unmanned spaceflights of ISRO undergo extreme temperature changes. Hence, another spin-off of ISRO tech in the health sector which has also proved to be worthy in defence includes flame proof coatings of equipment, search and rescue beacons, and aerogel thermal wear for soldiers for sustaining extreme temperatures.
ISRO is also hosting a Health-QUEST demonstration program at its headquarters on Thursday under its Directorate of Safety Quality and Reliability (DSRQ).
In a press release, ISRO noted that its pilot program on the same in Dr Mehta Hospital of Chennai and Narayana Health City Bengaluru has yielded “positive results”.
If successful in these 11 hospitals, ISRO intends to extend the program to more hospitals and healthcare centres across the country.
It had started developing the program at the request and interest of healthcare professionals in the country who were interested in learning how the space agency handles safety, quality, and reliability for the interaction of man, machine, and environment in its potential human spaceflight programs.
According to ISRO, it was approached by the Association of Healthcare Providers (India) (AHPI) and the Consortium of Accredited Healthcare Organisations (CAHO) in 2016 regarding the same.
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