IIT Bombay officially launches Centre for Digital Health

The Koita Centre for Digital Health is focused on driving academic programs, research in healthcare and industry collaborations in digital health. 

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay has officially launched its new Centre for Digital Health. The Koita Centre for Digital Health is focused on driving academic programs, research in healthcare and industry collaborations in digital health. 

The institute announced the establishment of Koita Centre for Digital Health (KCDH) in June 2021. The institute unveiled the centre in an inaugural event held today (April 17, 2023). The first-of-its-kind in India, KCDH has been funded by the Koita Foundation, formed by IIT Bombay’s alumnus and co-founder of CitiusTech, Rizwan Koita (BTech., Electrical Engineering, 1992) and Distinguished Service Awardee Rekha Koita (BTech., Metallurgical Engineering & Material Science, 1992).  

The inaugural event also witnessed a symposium that brought together leaders and researchers in technology and healthcare from the hospitals, government, academia and industry. 

The panelists presented their views on how digital solutions can transform healthcare in India, with some of the dominant themes being: managing large healthcare data sets, use of advance technologies such as AI/ML in personalised medicine, disease modelling for public health, importance of local innovation in digital health, and the need for nation-wide capacity building in digital health. 

Speaking about her vision for the Centre, Rekha Koita said, “Our vision is for KCDH to become a globally renowned Centre in digital health informatics. It will drive research and entrepreneurship and hone some of the best minds, creating a cadre of professionals who can truly create an impact in terms of improving healthcare quality, accessibility and affordability”. 

The Centre envisions playing a lead role in digital health and informatics and is aligned with India’s Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) which aims to “develop the backbone necessary to support the integrated digital health infrastructure of the country”. 

The Centre is pursuing research in areas of healthcare applications, data management, analysis and AI/ML, consumer health and telemedicine, computational biology and bioinformatics, and population health and public health policy. Further information on the research projects can be found at: https://www.kcdh.iitb.ac.in/research/. 

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