IndiaAI & ICMR Sign MoU to Drive Responsible AI Adoption in Healthcare

As part of the agreement, anonymised and ethics-compliant datasets, along with AI models and tools developed by ICMR, will be integrated into the AIKosh platform.

IndiaAI and ICMR have signed an MoU to accelerate the responsible use of artificial intelligence in healthcare, combining technological capabilities with biomedical expertise to improve public health outcomes and enable scalable innovation across India.

Through this collaboration, both entities aim to establish a unified and interoperable AI ecosystem tailored for healthcare needs.

IndiaAI will bring its compute infrastructure, dataset platforms, and ecosystem-building initiatives, while ICMR will contribute its domain knowledge and access to curated biomedical datasets developed under its Medical Information Data for AI Solutions (MIDAS) framework.

Inside the Pact

As part of the agreement, anonymised and ethics-compliant datasets, along with AI models and tools developed by ICMR, will be integrated into the AIKosh platform.

This is expected to expand access to high-quality health data for researchers, startups, and innovators, potentially accelerating the development of AI applications in areas such as disease prediction, diagnostics, and public health planning.

The partnership also addresses a long-standing gap in advanced computing resources for healthcare research. IndiaAI will provide ICMR with access to high-performance GPU-based infrastructure at subsidised rates, enabling more complex and large-scale AI model development.

This support is expected to enhance the ability of researchers to process large datasets and develop more accurate and scalable solutions.

Strengthening Public Health Use Cases & Global Collaboration

In addition, the collaboration will focus on co-developing AI use cases aligned with India’s public health priorities. These solutions will draw on ICMR’s disease burden data and will be built using IndiaAI’s technology stack, ensuring relevance, scalability, and potential for real-world deployment.

The MoU further strengthens ongoing engagement between the two organisations at the global level.

In 2025, IndiaAI and ICMR’s National Institute for Research in Digital Health and Data Sciences (NIRDHDS) were recognised as Pioneer Countries under the HealthAI Global Regulatory Network, a multilateral initiative co-founded with the United Kingdom and Singapore to promote responsible governance of AI in healthcare.

A subsequent tripartite collaboration with HealthAI has already laid the groundwork for regulatory and operational frameworks.

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