Tech for Good

As a global product engineering and lifecycle services company we have been working on making advancements in the Healthcare domain, by providing innovative solutions to our clients. One of our robust AI-powered solution enables healthcare professionals to accelerate the screening of COVID-19 patients with pneumonia symptoms.  Using advanced deep learning models, the AI-powered diagnostic solution can sort and identify chest X-rays of patients with COVID-19. 

With an accuracy of more than 95%, the solution can be deployed on the cloud as a service, making it easily accessible on edge for healthcare professionals and end-users. The solution is backed by Microsoft Azure Machine Learning, which helps accelerate the development and deployment on machine learning models in a highly secure and trusted fashion.

The Medical Devices engineering team at QuEST developed this technology demonstrator using chest X-rays of healthy individuals, patients with symptoms of pneumonia and COVID-19. These X-rays were used to train and build a deep neural network model that could clearly identify the radiological patterns of pneumonia related to COVID-19 and highlight the suspicious ones, thus leading to a faster screening of the disease. 

Over the last ten years, under QuEST Global CSR (#SmileEngineering), volunteers from QuEST have conducted workshops, and upgraded physics lab, chemistry lab, library, sports room in schools. With the help of #EWB (Engineers Without Borders) a well-equipped computer lab has been setup in a local School in Bengaluru. Each year, we award cash prizes to the toppers in grade 8t, 9 & 10 and have been supporting graduating students to pursue engineering degrees with annual scholarships.  

My Kartavya (my duty), is a unique curated volunteering program by NASSCOM Foundation, that connects the Industry bodies to Non-profit organisations to create a better social impact. This gives our volunteers a plethora of opportunities to choose from 

• Track, monitor and evaluate impact in Time spent, Karma points earned, SDGs impacted, and money saved u2013 Do Good Feel Good
• Volunteer from anywhere with both virtual and physical volunteering options
• Connect, create, collaborate through forums and scale the impact!

At QuEST, we encourage employees to dedicate their free time for a noble cause. Through My Kartavya and other such initiatives, we help them find a complete gamut of volunteering activities, such as 

• Skills for Good: Donate your skills to NGOs in need
• Train for Good: From training on Digital Literacy to sensitization of misinformation, help empower people
• Social Media for Good: Make social media work for its intended purpose - spread the goodness!
• Work for Good: Help NGOs with basic tasks from painting a wall to making masks.
• Mentor for Good: Help provide guidance to college students, innovators and NGOs

Advocacy for Good: Help point out policy level changes and work towards their sensitization