Center for Digital Health at IIT Jodhpur

Center for Digital Health at IIT Jodhpur

IIT Jodhpur in association with Libra Social Research Foundation organised "Summit for Health Equity: Spotlight on Digital Health.

In his welcome address, Prof. Santanu Chaudhury, Director, IIT Jodhpur made an announcement of setting up the "Center for Digital Health" at IIT Jodhpur. The center will focus 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. Dr. Indu Bhushan, Ex. CEO Ayushman Bharat, Ex-Director General ADB, Ex IAS Officer, Ambassador for the Johns Hopkins Gupta Kinsky India Institute was the chief guest of the event and appreciated the Institute’s vision and efforts towards ‘Health For All’ through Digital Transformation. 12 Notable speakers participated in the summit, attended by more than 200 students.

Librasocial OpenHDIS Community - Here is a link to the Digital Health Opensource Community started by Librasocial, LetsDoc and now supported by IITJ.




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