IndiaAI, ICMR Partner to Build Responsible AI Ecosystem for Healthcare

New Delhi: IndiaAI and Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to advance the responsible and scalable adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in India’s healthcare sector.

The partnership brings together IndiaAI’s technology infrastructure and AI ecosystem capabilities with ICMR’s expertise in biomedical research and public health to create a nationally interoperable AI ecosystem for healthcare.

IndiaAI, operating under the ministry of electronics and information technology through the Digital India Corporation, will collaborate with ICMR to support AI-led healthcare research, innovation and deployment.

Under the agreement, ICMR will contribute anonymised and ethics-approved health research datasets, AI models and toolkits developed through its Medical Information Data for AI Solutions (MIDAS) framework to the AIKosh dataset platform.

The integration is expected to expand access to high-quality biomedical datasets for researchers, startups and innovators developing healthcare AI applications in India.

IndiaAI will also provide ICMR access to GPU-based and high-performance computing infrastructure at subsidised rates under defined service agreements to support large-scale AI research initiatives.

The collaboration further includes co-development of AI-powered healthcare solutions targeting priority public health challenges using ICMR’s disease burden data and IndiaAI’s compute and technology stack.

The partnership builds upon earlier engagements between the two institutions. In September 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 involving IndiaAI, ICMR-NIRDHDS and HealthAI further strengthened efforts towards establishing a robust regulatory and innovation framework for healthcare AI in India.

The government said the latest collaboration is expected to accelerate innovation at the intersection of healthcare and technology while maintaining strong safeguards around ethics, data privacy and regulatory compliance.