AIIMS Delhi, PGI Chandigarh, AIIMS Rishikesh designated centre of excellence for using AI for healthcare

New Delhi: The premier health institutes, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) New Delhi, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGI Chandigarh) and AIIMS Rishikesh have been designated as Centre of Excellence for Artificial Intelligence to promote the creation and use of AI-based solutions in Healthcare by the Union ministry of health and family welfare.

The government of India has launched the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) which aims to create a platform enabling interoperability of health data within the health ecosystem so as to create longitudinal Electronic Health Records (EHR) of every citizen.

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Under ABDM, multiple registries are made to ensure that data silos can be broken and longitudinal electronic health record (EHR) of citizen is created. Further, it will integrate cutting-edge technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, IoTs, blockchain, etc., with existing health IT applications as per need for improving the performance of the health services.

NITI Ayog has published two approach documents on AI for India, “Responsible AI” approach documents in February 2021 and “Operationalizing Principles for Responsible AI” in August 2021.

The Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, Dr Bharati Pravin Pawar, stated this in a written reply in the Lok Sabha on March 17.

PGIMER is already using several AI projects, including a multi-institutional research project involving cancer patients using AI tools, which was last year. Under the same, patients can upload CT scans or pathology images onto software to receive automatically-generated report/diagnosis. 

The PGIMER is a premier medical education and research institute that has significantly contributed to the field of medicine. Its expertise will be leveraged to develop AI-based tools that can aid healthcare professionals in providing accurate diagnosis and expert assistance to patients.

Medical Dialogues team had earlier reported about PGIMER researching the application of Artificial Intelligence/ Machine Learning algorithms which are reported to help in predicting critical events such as mortality, length of ICU stay, etc.  

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