Oxyent wins IBM Smartcamp for Health Tech 2016

IBM in association with T-Hub and Manipal Hospitals announced Oxyent Technologies as the winner of its IBM Smartcamp for Health Tech 2016 challenge.   

The event held on October 21, 2016 at T-Hubs Catalyst Building was a great opportunity for the participating startups to present their solutions to a panel of VCs, angel investors, enterprise CIOs, IBM executives and key influencers in the health care domain. The winners were felicitated by BVR Mohan Reddy, former chairman of Nasscom at the event. 

IBM SmartCamp, which was held in Hyderabad in association with T-Hub, India’s largest startup Ecosystem player and Manipal Hospitals, is a part of IBM’s Global Entrepreneur program initiative. The event was aimed at identifying startups in the B2B and B2C space in India who are poised to redefine the healthcare industry through their technology innovations.  

The winners of IBM Smartcamp will be given access to IBM Cloud credits and can leverage the best of IBM technologies around cognitive, cloud, analytics, mobility, IoT and infrastructure as a service. All participants will also get an opportunity to learn from IBM’s senior leadership and industry experts.   

“The focus of IBM Smartcamp for Health Tech initiative was to provide the startups in healthcare an opportunity to showcase their products and get inputs first-hand from various stakeholders,” said Seema Kumar, country manager, Ecosystem Development, IBM India & South Asia. 

The winner of the IBM Smartcap for Healthtech 2016, Harpreet Singh, founder, Oxyent Technologies said, "As an offering, we are engaged in developing affordable healthcare products focusing on improving the quality of health of children and providing decision support in their clinical practices. Enterprise technologies like IoT, cloud computing, big data and analytics are a pillar to our solution.” 

Jay Krishnan, CEO, T-Hub said, “We are excited to partner with Industry leaders such as IBM and Manipal Hospitals to facilitate events like the Heath Tech Smartcamp Challenge 2016. Such events will benefit startups in the ecosystem working in the area of healthcare innovation. Our mission overall is to lead sector specific collaboration between cutting edge startups and corporates looking for innovations in their domains.”