BHUBANESWAR: AIIMS-Bhubaneswar on Thursday signed an MoU with KIIT technology business incubator (KIIT-TBI) and Bhubaneswar City Knowledge Innovation Cluster (BCKIC) foundation for advancing healthcare innovation and promoting clinical entrepreneurship.
The partnership aims at creating a robust platform for developing, validating and deploying healthcare technologies and attracting healthcare startups to Odisha. It will also help to establish joint centres of excellence (CoEs) in healthcare, diagnostics and digital health.
AIIMS executive director Dr Ashutosh Biswas said this partnership will focus on technology advancement, effective intellectual property (IP) management and clinical entrepreneurship. AIIMS-BBS, KIIT-TBI and BCKIC will jointly work towards innovation, startup programmes, boot camps, regulatory workshops and startup-investor roundtables. Healthcare technology validation like real-world testing of tele-health platforms, AI-based diagnostic tools are also part of the collaboration.
KIIT-TBI CEO Mrutyunjay Suar said the CoE will be established with high-end diagnostic tools, clinical validation pathways and advanced research facilities. BCKIC CEO and KIIT-TBI advisor Namrata Misra, dean (research) of AIIMS Dr Satyajeet Misra and manager (tech-innovation) of KIIT-TBI Jayalaxmi Dash were present.