The All India Institute of Health Sciences and the Indraprastha-Delhi Institute of Information Technology have begun a partnership to advance digital health.
WHAT IT’S ABOUT
AIIMS and IIIT-Delhi have previously worked on a number of medical AI projects, including developing predictive models for sepsis, gastrointestinal tuberculosis, and antibiotic resistance.
Their latest memorandum essentially builds on their previous collaboration to continue to work in various aspects of digital health. Specifically, they will focus on AI, ML, and computational genomics to advance research in clinical medicine, public health, and biomedicine.
They also seek to contribute to the government’s Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission by creating a global health insurance framework to ensure access to affordable and quality healthcare. maybe.
All of this will be facilitated through joint research and training, seminars and workshops, faculty and student exchanges.
“There is also a provision to identify and support internal funding for co-financed projects and joint course development under this Memorandum of Understanding. We hope to leverage each other’s strengths to create have a greater impact in the healthcare sector,” added IIIT-Delhi Director Professor Ranjan. Bose.
WHY IT IMPORTANT
In India, the majority of healthcare infrastructure (75%) is concentrated in large cities, where only 27% of the population live; the rest of India’s population lacks access to those resources. There are only 1.4 hospital beds for every 1,000 patients. In some government hospitals, one doctor is caring for about 11,000 patients, much higher than the recommended doctor-to-patient ratio set by WHO.
The AIIMS and IIIT-Delhi partnership ultimately seeks to address such major health challenges, particularly healthcare accessibility in remote and disadvantaged areas. , by delivering innovations in mobile health, AI, interoperability, cybersecurity, and other related areas. Besides providing healthcare, they also aim to improve healthcare outcomes and patient care.
“This [MOU is] a platform to bring together faculties with diverse disciplines from two leading institutions and enable them to converge to achieve goals that can directly impact patient healthcare and research in many fields,” said AIIMS Director, Professor M. Srinivas.
TREND TO BIGGER WOMAN
IIIT-Delhi has been involved in many collaborative activities to advance technologies to improve patient care and medical education. By the end of 2021, it has joined forces with the Indian Institute of Technology to establish India’s first collaborative medical robotics center. The The Medical Cobotics Center is a medical simulation and training facility for young medical professionals to train in minimally invasive surgeries.
In other related news, AIIMS in New Delhi is now embarking on digital transformation with a full rollout plan. National Informatics Center’s HMIS electronic hospital this year and a fully digital payment facility starting this April.
