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BIRAC Success Stories | 2016 Sohum Innovation Lab

Key Highlights

* Launched the product in 2016.
Breakthrough * 5 clinics in India and 2 clinics in Central
America already using the Sohum device.
• Developed SOHUM, a highly * Provides early screening, that leads to
proprietary, non-invasive, safe medical timely treatment and rehabilitation, as
device to screen neonates for hearing well as savings in healthcare expenses to
impairment with high sensitivity and the system.
specificity. * Reduced test duration ideal for mass
• Specially designed for mass screening screening.
of newborns in resource constrained * Employment to ~8 professionals.
settings.
• SOHUM uses gold standard Brainstem
Auditory Evoked Response (BAER)
technology with an easy-to-use
interface.
• SOHUM will serve a market of 20000
pediatricians, 17000 ENT specialists
and about 40000 maternity and child
care institutes.

BIRAC’s Support

The project has been awarded funds
by Department of Biotechnology,
Govt. of India. it is also a recipient of
support under BIRAC‘s BIG program.

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