IIT Kanpur, GSMST to organize hybrid workshop to foster telemedicine, AI in healthcare

The workshop will be addressed by many eminent speakers including RS Sharma, CEO, National Health Authority, Government of India will be the chief guest.

IIT Kanpur, GSMST to organize hybrid workshop to foster telemedicine, AI in healthcare

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur in collaboration with Gangwal School of Medical Sciences and Technology will be organising a one-day hybrid workshop tomorrow; i.e. on July 2, 2022. The workshop will be a first-of-its-kind initiative proposing to establish several Centres of Excellence on futuristic medicine as part of the Gangwal School of Medical Sciences and Technology and a Super Specialty Hospital as an extension of CoE.

The one-day event will be addressed by IIT Kanpur Director Abhay Karandikar and Professor Ashutosh Sharma.  The institute in a statement said, “The workshop is envisioned to advance the concept of Telemedicine Policy and Strategy, Application scenarios, and explore the role of Artificial Intelligence in empowering the health system of the 21st century.”

"It will cover sessions on driving the implementation of health technologies and interventions systematically by creating a framework for deploying business models for advanced point-of-care devices at the target geographies, a mechanism of collecting data securely, and applying emerging technological tools to come up with measures for preventing illness," it said.

The workshop will be addressed by many eminent speakers including RS Sharma, CEO, National Health Authority, Government of India will be the chief guest. Session one is on the "Current Scenario of Telemedicine in India," and will be moderated by Professor Amitabha Bandyopadhyay, and Professor SK Mishra, IIT Kanpur. The keynote speaker for the session includes: Vikram Pagaria, Joint Director, National Health Agency, Govt of India; Abhishek Singh, CEO, MyGov, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology; R Prakash, C-DOT, Department of Telecommunication; K Ganapathy, Apollo Telehealth Network Foundation, Chennai; Praveen Srivastava, Associate Director & Head; Health Informatics Department., C-DAC, Noida.

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