Centre for Digital Health (CDH)
Health Equity through Digital Transformation
Building up on the strong inter-disciplinary academic ecosystem of IIT Jodhpur, the Centre for Digital Health at IIT Jodhpur, is focused on health for all through digital transformation of healthcare involving cutting edge research, state of the art academic programmes, open data eco-system and disruptive innovations.
Centre will work for making affordable digital healthcare reach people without corresponding increase in the requirement of physical infrastructure and human resources.
Vision
To nurture, develop and produce manpower, processes and technology in the domain of Digital Health having a profound impact on the scale, quality and efficiency of healthcare delivery.
Mission
- Offering state-of-the art academic and manpower development programmes in Digital Health
technology and
management.
- Cutting-edge research that re-imagines the healthcare technology in the digital domain exploiting
AI,
Big Data, IOT & Wearables, Imaging Technology, AR-VR, Robotics, Computational Biology, Cloud
Computing and
Communication Technologies.
- Creating a democratised health data and knowledge ecosystem which will promote open innovation.
- Nurturing a vibrant start-up culture in digital health through boot-camps, accelerator programmes,
mentoring and funding for product and process development and delivery.
- Enabling national and international connectivity by partnering with industry, academia, government
departments, medical institutions, UN agencies and NGO's working in this space across continents.
- Seeding a powerful outreach programme for enabling adoption of digital technology for better
healthcare
delivery at all levels of Indian Healthcare system.
Centre’s initiatives are aligned with
- Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission
- Ayushman Bharat Health and Wellness Centres
- Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission
- PM-JAY UHC
- National Education Policy 2020
- NHA and Irda - Insuretech and fintech initiatives including the
- National Innovation Unit of NHA
- Niti Ayog Vision for Healthcare in India including Digital Health,
- Atal innovation Mission
- UN SDG 2030
- WHO Global initiative for Digital Health
Knowledge Alliance
Libra Social Research Foundation
Libra Social Research Foundation , is a Not-for-Profit organization, that works at the convergence of Healthcare, Education, and Technology to ensure Health Equity at the Bottom of the Pyramid. Founders and members of the organization have proven experience in transformative approaches, through multi-decade global experiences in primary and secondary research, design thinking, technology architecture, fostering innovation, and building capacities across large ecosystems. Libra Opensource Healthcare Community is for people working in Healthcare Ecosystem across Health, Wellness, Pharma, Lifesciences, Health Insurance, Medical Devices, HealthTech, eHealth, mHealth, EHR, Hospital Info System (HIS), PRM, HC SMAC, AI, ML, HC IoT. Libra Social Research Foundation is a knowledge partner to IIT-Jodhpur in order to build capacity in Digital Health, Innovations Ecosystems, Digital Public Goods and Research.
News & Events
Summit For Health Equity Organized by the Centre for Digital Health, IIT Jodhpur In Association With Libra Social Research Foundation
An affordable, inclusive and equitable healthcare system is the aspiration and need of today’sIndia and other developing countries. Digital healthcare is a game-changer in this regard because of its ability to scale to billions of people without corresponding scaling of physical infrastructure and human resources and can contribute significantly to healthcare equity. The challenge of ensuring health equity through digital health can only be addressed by creating an ecosystem with all stakeholders and by fostering capacity building, indigenous innovative R&D initiatives, start-up and entrepreneurships. Such efforts also need to be supported by awareness drives, data sharing through open source communities, participatory healthcare and regulatory reforms.