Faculty from IIT Hyderabad and experts from AIIMS Bibinagar held discussions on leveraging technology and clinical expertise to address healthcare challenges in India. The meeting focused on areas such as artificial intelligence, digital health, medical devices, disease research and healthcare access.
Prof. Aftab Hussain of IIIT-Hyderabad has proposed a contactless sleep monitoring system using flexible pressure sensors embedded in a mattress topper. The innovation, which earned him the Young Faculty Research Fellowship under the Visvesvaraya PhD Scheme, can detect falls and predict risks by analysing sleep patterns and movement.
