High number of patients, tech-savvy population drive treatment offerings

20250814 India startup

Ultrahuman Healthcare, whose flagship product is a wearable patch that monitors glucose levels, is among the Indian startups taking on the country’s diabetes crisis. (Ultrahuman Healthcare)

NEETA LAL

August 14, 2025 12:47 JST

NEW DELHI — Health care startups in India are tapping artificial intelligence and wearables to help tackle the country’s lifestyle disease crisis by providing patients with more data and nudging them toward healthier ways of living, and in the process aiming not just to treat chronic illnesses such as diabetes but to reverse them.