IIT-B team develops digital stethoscope

In a bid to ensure social distancing even while checking on Covid-19 patients, a team of researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay have designed a digital stethoscope. The device has the potential to listen to a patient's heart beat from a distance and record it. The data recorded is received by the doctor using bluetooth. The device has received a patent and has been designed with expert advise by doctors from Reliance Hospital and PD Hinduja Hospital. Operating a start-up called "AyuDevice" from the IIT's technology business incubator, the team has sent 1,000 stethoscopes to different hospitals and healthcare centres across the country.