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National Symposium on Health Data and Artificial Intelligence

March 17th – 18th 2023

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Christian Medical College , Vellore

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March 17th - 18th 2023

An opportunity to engage with and learn from clinicians, researchers, engineers, entrepreneurs and policy experts who are at the forefront of Digital Health Data and artificial intelligence

We are thrilled to bring together experts from these various disciplines to address the current state of Digital Health data and discuss how the ecosystem can develop to build patient centric Artificial Intelligence for India.

This National Symposium on Health Data and AI will take place on March 17th -18th 2023 in Christian Medical College, Vellore, a premier medical institution located in Tamil Nadu, India. Being pioneers in adopting digitization of health data, and with most aspects of healthcare practice in the digital platform for more than two decades, we are uniquely placed to host various stakeholders from the country and abroad to deliberate on how the digital health data ecosystems can evolve in India. As we delve into the latest advancements in these fields, let us keep in mind the ethics and responsibilities that come with harnessing the power of data and AI. It is our hope that through open and informed discussions, we can shape the future of healthcare ecosystem in a positive and sustainable way.

We look forward to a productive and enlightening symposium. Let’s get started!

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DAY 1

Session Topic Moderator
9.00 - 10.00 Registration
10:00 - 10.15 Welcome and Introduction
Dr Joy Mammen, Convenor, CMC Vellore
10.15 - 10.45 Data and AI for better health
Dr. Andre Dekker, MAASTRO Clinic		 Dr Anna Pulimood, Pathology and Dr Simon Pavamani, Radiation Oncology
10.45 -11.15 Electronic health records- Need for standards
Dr Manisha Mantri, CDAC-Pune		 Mr Ebenezar Sundaraj, CHIPS, CMC Vellore
11.15 - 11.30 Coffee Break
11.30 - 12.00 Telehealth, Interoperability and challenges in Digital transformation
Dr Uma Nambiar, Digital Health India Association		 Dr. Lallu Joseph, Quality Manager and Accreditation Co-ordinator
12:00 - 12.20 Gathering Storing and ensuring safety of Data - CMC experience
Ms. Anitha Sheba Rachel, CMC Vellore		 Dr Vinu Moses, Interventional Radiology
12.20-12.30 Health and Digital Identity
Mr Kiran Jonnalagadda, co-founder Hasgeek
12.30 - 1.00 Network and Cyber security in Hospitals
Mr. Sureshram Venghatachari, Narayana Health Hospitals
1.00 - 2.00 Lunch
1.20 - 1.40 Regulatory and legislative implications for health data management Industry best practices and principles for managing and innovating with health records
Ms. Anisha Koshy, DSCI - NASSCOM
2.00 - 2.30 Natural Language Processing & Health Care in the Indian Context
Dr. Dipti Sharma, IIIT Hyderabad		 Dr Samuel Hansdak, Medicine
2:30 -2.55 The Digital Divide: A perspective from the other side
Dr. John Oommen, Christian Hospital Bissamcuttak		 Dr Venkata Raghava, Community Medicine
3.00 - 3.30 De-mystyifying AI
Dr. Balaraman Ravindran , Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science and AI - IIT Madras		 Dr Sitara Swarna Rao, Microbiology
3.30 - 4.00 Creation of National Gold Standard Data set for Analytics, AI ML - computational genomics
Dr. Harpeet Singh, ICMR
4.00 - 4.30 Tea Break
4.30 - 4.45 Comprehensive Archive of Imaging in Oncology (CHAVI) Genesis, Development & way forward
Dr Santam Chakraborty, TMC Kolkata		 Dr Devakumar D, Nuclear Medicine
4.45 - 5.00 How to bring pipelines together for AI based research
Mr Raghu Dharmaraju, ARTPARK		 Dr Prasanna Samuel, Biostatistics
5.00 -5.45 How to achieve the standards in health data
Panelists: Dr Sanjay Kinra, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Dr Gautam Menon, Ashoka University, Ms Anaita Singh, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Ms. Anisha Koshy, DSCI - NASSCOM 		Dr Pramod Jacob, Digital Health India Association
5.45 - 6.00 Kahoot quiz for audience
6.00 - 7.00 Inaugural Ceremony
7.20 - 7.40 Keynote Address - Vision for India's Digital Health and healthcare systems
Dr. Alexander Thomas, Founder Patron Association of Healthcare Providers
7.00 - 7.30 Conference Photograph
7.30 - 7.45 Prize distribution of Kahoot Quiz
7.30 - 9.00 Networking Dinner

day 2

Session Topic Moderator
8.45 - 9.20 Asking the right questions in AI research
Dr. Balu Krishna S, CMC Vellore		 Dr. J V Peter, Critical Care Medicine
9.20 - 9.50 Image computing-based AI for healthcare
Dr. Jayanthi Sivaswamy, IIIT Hyderabad		 Dr Sukesh Chandran,Transfusion Medicine
9.50 - 10.25 Learning from data on a global scale
Dr. Andre Dekker, MAASTRO Clinic		 Dr Sivakumar Balasubramanian, Bioengineering
10.30 -11.15 Is India Ready for AI in health. Our way forward
Dr. Gautam Menon, Ashoka University		 Dr Alok Srivastava, Haematology and Dr Suceena Alexander, Nephrology
11.15 - 11.45 Tea Break
11.45 - 12.00 Building a culture of data sharing
Ms Anupama Ananthasairam, Karkinos Healthcare 		Dr. Anuradha Chandramohan, Radiology
12.00 - 12.30 Demystifying data protection and cybersecurity as critical pillars for digital health
Mr. Raman Jit Chima, Access Now		 Ms Anupama Nambiar, Bioethics
12.30 - 1.00 Managing Antibiotic Usage - Changing practice with Bioinformatics
Dr. Balaji V, CMC Vellore		 Dr. Rajesh Kannangai, Clinical Virology
1.00 - 1.30 Learning Health Systems
Dr Mehdi Snene, I-DAIR		 Ms Resham Sethi, I-DAIR India Liason officer
1.30 -2.20 Lunch
2.10 - 2.20 kahoot quiz for audience
2.20 - 2.30 Data Driven digital
Mr Enbasekar, Medibuddy		 Dr Vinay Oommen, Physiology
2.30 - 2.40 AI Innovations for Oncology
Dr. Lakshmi Panat, CDAC
2.40 - 2.50 Medtech for budding entrepreneurs: A journey of trial and error.
Mr. Tahthogato Rai Dastidar, Sigtuple
2.50 - 3.00 Ensuring safe deliveries – The Janithri experience
Mr. Arun Agrawal, Janithri		 Dr. Jiji Mathew, Obstetrics and Gynaecology
3.00 - 3.10 Acoustic signal analysis for healthcare using AI
Mr Narayana Rao, SALCIT Technologies
3.10 - 3.40 What does Industry want from healthcare partners ? Is it only Data ? How can clinicians and industry engage better?
Panelists : Dr Anand Philip, Medibuddy, Dr Lakshmi Panat, C-DAC Pune, Mr Dastidar, Sigtuple, Mr Arun Agrawal, Janithri and Mr Narayana Rao, Salcit Technologies 		Mr Raghu Dharmaraju ARTPARK and Mr Arun John Zechariah CMC Vellore
3.45 - 4.30 Valedictory
4.30 - 5.00 Tea Break

Meet the speakers

Dr. Alexander Thomas
Founder - Patron, Association of Healthcare Providers India (AHPI)
Prof. Andre Dekker
Professor, Clinical Data Science, MAASTRO, Netherlands
MS. Anisha Koshy
DSCI
Ms. Anitha Sheba Rachel
Systems Manager, CMC Vellore
MR. ARUN AGARWAL
Janitri
Ms. Anupama Ananthasairam
KARKINOS Healthcare
Dr. Balaji V
Head, Clinical Microbiology, Cmc Vellore.
Prof. Balaraman Ravindran
Head, Robert Bosch Centre IIT-M
Dr. Balukrishna S
Prof. Radiation Oncology, CMC Vellore
Prof. Dipti Sharma
Language Technologies Research Centre IIIT Hyderabad
MR. ENBASEKER
Medibuddy
Prof. Gautam Menon
Dean of Research, Ashoka University, New Delhi
Dr. Harpreet Singh
Scientist, Indian Council of Medical Research
Prof. Jayanthi Sivaswamy
Centre for Visual Information Technology, IIIT, Hyderabad
Dr John Oommen
Consultant, Christian Hospital, Bissamcuttak
Dr. Lakshmi Panat
Associate Director, CDAC-Pune
Dr. Manisha Mantri
Deputy Director, C-DAC Pune
Dr. Mehdi Snene
CEO, I-DAIR, Geneva
Mr. Narayana Rao Sripada (Swaasa AI)
Salcit Technologies Pvt. Ltd
Mr. Raman Jit Singh Chima
Senior International Counsel and Global Cybersecurity Lead, Access Now
MR. RAGHU DHARMARAJU
Artpark
Dr Santam Chakraborty
Consultant, Radiation Oncology, Tata Medical Centre, Kolkata
MR. TAHTHOGATO RAI DASTIDAR
sigtuple
Dr. Uma Nambiar
Chairperson, Digital Health India Association
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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Registration fees

Students

₹ 2500
  • Near Scudder Auditorium, Bagayam Campus, CMC Vellore.
SPOT REGISTRATION

Professionals (Corporate)

₹9000
₹ 9000 Spl Discount : For Group (2-5) Each ₹8500For Group more than 5 :Each ₹8000
  • Near Scudder Auditorium, Bagayam Campus, CMC Vellore.
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Faculty/professionals

₹ 8000
  • Near Scudder Auditorium, Bagayam Campus, CMC Vellore.
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Sponsors & Partners

Supported By Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 

BAND

AC/PC performing live on 17 th march 2023 at Scudder auditorium backstage from 7 PM

Venue

The Conference will be held at the Scudder Auditorium on the College Campus in Bagayam.

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Places to Stay

Less than 3 km

  Airport:

  • The nearest Airport is Chennai International Airport (MAA), about 135 km away. You can get prepaid Taxi services to Vellore. 
  • Another option is Bangalore International Airport (BLR), about 220 Km away. 

Less than 5-6 km

  Trains:

  • The station for Vellore is KATPADI JUNCTION (KPD). It is well connected by trains from all directions.

Less than 6-10 km

  Road:

  • The Vellore Bus Stand is about 5-6 km away from the CMC College Campus, Bagayam. City buses are frequent on Routes 1 or 2. It is about Rs. 12 from the Railway station to the College Campus.
  • Local travel is by Autorickshaws or Taxis
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About us

Established in 1900, CMC Vellore has a rich history of providing high-quality healthcare services and medical education. The college offers undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral programs in medicine, nursing, and allied health sciences. CMC Vellore is known for its commitment to patient care, medical research, and community service, making it one of the most respected and well-regarded medical colleges in India and around the world. We also look forward to discussing the many exciting initiatives and opportunities at CMC Vellore during our meeting. 

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Dr. Alexander Thomas

Founder – Patron, Association of Healthcare Providers India (AHPI)

Dr. Thomas is the Founder-Member and President of the Association of National Board Accredited Institutions (ANBAI), Founder-President (2012-2017) and Patron of the Consortium of Accredited Healthcare Organizations (CAHO). He has played a significant part in incorporating healthcare communication among the NABH Accreditation Standards for Hospitals (4th Edition), and has led the expert group on medical education for the National Education Policy (2019) headed by Dr. Kasturirangan.

He initiated the creation of a national Think Tank on Health at the National Law School of India University (NLSIU). At the State level, Dr. Thomas played an important role in developing the State Public Health Policy as the Member-Secretary of its Task Force. He has led committees for NABH accreditation of government hospitals in Karnataka and was awarded the Emeritus Teacher Award by NBE for his distinguished achievements and contributions to the field of Medical Education (2014).

Prof. Andre Dekker

Professor and Head, Clinical Data Science MAASTRO, Netherlands

Prof. Andre Dekker, PhD (1974) is a medical physicist and professor of Clinical Data Science at Maastricht University Medical Center and Maastro Clinic in The Netherlands. His Clinical Data Science research group (50 staff) focuses on 1) federated FAIR data infrastructures, 2) AI for health outcome prediction models and 3) applying AI to improve lives of patients and citizens. Prof. Dekker has authored over 200 publications, mentored more than 30 PhD students and holds multiple awards and patents on the topic of federated data and AI. He has held visiting scientist appointments at universities and companies in the UK, Australia, Italy, USA and Canada. 

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Mrs. Anitha Sheba Rachel A

Systems Manager, Computerized Hospital Information Processing Service (CHIPS), Medical Informatics, CMC Vellore. 

Mrs. Anitha Sheba Rachel is an experienced IT systems manager with 20+ years in the IT field. She has accumulated knowledge on planning, developing and maintaining Health Information systems connecting various critical structures of CMC.  Her major contributions include continuous development and integration of ‘Clinical WorkStation’- a patient information/management software and EMR portal used by clinicians in CMC. In-Patient – Admission, Discharge and Transfer (ADT) and Dietary Module for automating admission, discharge and the transfer process of a patient is organised seamlessly with this. LIS (Laboratory information System) for handling various clinical laboratory operations such as Sample management, Instrument and application integration for medical equipment, Electronic data exchange between inter/intra departments and HIS of CMC. She also worked on Doctor and Procedure Appointments portals.  Apart from working on clinical IT infrastructure Mrs Anitha has worked on CHRIS Card, a patient ID card used for all payments in CMC&H Vellore. Implementing One patient, One card. And worked on several other administrative IT infrastructure for HR, Finance, Purchase and Material Management, Inventory Management and ‘Office WorkStation’ for CMC admin staffs.

Prof. Balaraman Ravindran

Head, Robert Bosch Centre IIT-Madras

Professor B. Ravindran heads the Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science & Artificial Intelligence (RBCDSAI) at IIT Madras. He is the Mindtree Faculty Fellow and Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Madras. Currently, his research interests are centred on learning from and through interactions and span the areas of geometric deep learning and reinforcement learning. He received his PhD from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and his Master’s degree from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He is a senior member of the Association for Advancement of AI (AAAI) and an ACM Distinguished Member.

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DR. BALUKRISHNA S

Professor, Radiation Oncology Unit II​, Ida B Scudder Cancer Centre, Christian Medical College, Vellore.

Dr. Balu Krishna is a radiation oncologist and faculty at Christian Medical College since 2008.  His interests and experience include cancers of the upper GI tract, head and neck, thorax, and prostate. He also has experience in cancer research, clinical trials, radiomics, artificial intelligence, function sparing radiation, mouse tumor models, and immunotherapy.  

His major achievements include winning the Young Clinical Poster Award at ESTRO 35 in Italy in 2016 and receiving the Best Paper award at the Young Radiation Oncologists Conference in Kerala, India in 2014. He has also been a research scholar at the University of Washington Seattle and Seattle Cancer Care Alliance Proton Therapy Center from 2017-2019, an AVON Global Breast Cancer Scholar at Johns Hopkins University in 2012 and an ECCO-AACR Scholar for Methods in Clinical Cancer Research in FLIMS, Switzerland.  

Dr. Balu Krishna has been involved in three major grants and projects (DBT, ICMR, and I-DAIR), and has authored 30 publications. He is also the clinical lead for QIRAIL, an AI Lab in Radiation Oncology at CMC Vellore

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Prof. Dipti Misra Sharma

Language Technologies Research Centre, IIIT Hyderabad

Prof. Dipti Misra Sharma, is a Professor Emeritus at Language Technologies Research Centre (LTRC), IIIT-Hyderabad having research and teaching experience in the field of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. Her research interests include machine translation including Speech to Speech machine translation with a focus on Indian languages and developing tools and data resources for Indian Languages. Her areas of interests are Machine translation, Indian language resource development. She has successfully led projects such as Indian language to Indian language machine translation system(ILMT) Phase II, a consortium project with 12 institutes and 11 language pairs; Development of dependency treebanks for Indian languages; Translation of Swayam courses into 8 Indian languages, Multilingual document summarization in quasi stationary environment, Speech to Speech Machine Translation (Pilot).   Currently leading a project on Machine translation for 9 Indian language pairs, including English, as part of Bhashini.

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Prof. Gautam Menon

Dean of Research, Ashoka University, New Delhi

Gautam Menon is a Professor of Physics and Biology at Ashoka University, Sonepat and the Director of its Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability (3CS), a Professor (on lien) at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai  as well as an Adjunct Professor at the TIFR, Mumbai. He was a Visiting Professor at the Mechanobiology Institute of the National University of Singapore between 2011 and 2013.  He has been awarded the Swarnajayanti Fellowship of the DST, was named a DAE-SRC Outstanding Research Investigator of the, has been named an Outstanding Referee of the American Physical Society. He is an elected Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences (India). Apart from his scientific work, he has been involved in making science accessible to the public, in using mathematical and computational models to inform health policy, and in mathematical modeling and public outreach regarding the COVID-19 pandemic in India.

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Dr Harpreet Singh

Scientist, Indian Council of Medical Research

Dr. Singh is a technical professional withhas 15+ years of experience in handling and analyzinganalysing Next Generation Sequence data, Genotyping by Sequencing, Epitope prediction, Comparative Sequence Analysis, Annotations, Phylogeny, Database and web service development.

He developed targeted therapeutics development based on gene signatures, biomarkers and drivers of disease pathogenesis. Dr Singh has also developed Data Portal and Data Analysis at ICMR AIIMS Computational Genomics Centre

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Prof. Jayanthi Sivaswamy

Professor, IIIT, Hyderabad

Professor Jayanthi Sivaswamy is Raj Reddy Professor at International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIITH). Trained as Electrical Engineer, she has been working in the medical image computing field for over 15 years. She has extensive experience in developing computer aided diagnostic (CAD) solutions to help screen for eye diseases, lung cancer and covid based on images from different modalities. Besides CAD, her current work focusses on understanding population-based differences in aging of the human brain and developing VR-based solution for anatomy education

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Dr Manisha Mantri

Joint Director, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing & Project Director and Co-investigator of National Resource Centre for EHR Standards (NRCeS) project by MoHFW

Mrs. Manisha Mantri works with HPC- Medical & Bio-informatics Applications Group (HPC-M&BA) at Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) Pune, India. She leads activities of the National Resource Centre for EHR Standards (NRCeS) in India. She is a veteran software architect with more than 14 years of experience in the design, development, and delivery of healthcare products and solutions. She has deep knowledge of health data interoperability standards including SNOMED CT, DICOM, HL7 v2.x, CCD, FHIR, and LOINC and healthcare processes. She is co-author of a book titled, ‘Electronic Health Record: Standards, Coding Systems, Frameworks, and Infrastructures’ by IEEE press, Wiley Publications. Manisha also represents organization and India at various international and national bodies including SNOMED International, openEHR International, Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), HIMSS India, and HL7 India. She has been recognized as HIMSSFuture50 Class of 2021 by HIMSS.

Dr. Mehdi Snene

CEO, I-DAIR, Geneva

Dr. Mehdi Snène, currently the CEO a.i at I-DAIR, is a digital health expert and scientist with a strong research focus on neuroscience, cognition, aging, and machine learning. He has founded and managed a mental and brain health research laboratory at the University of Geneva with a great track record of diversified National, European, and International research funding. He has been working on frontier technology in digital health, with a strong emphasis on Quality of Life and Quality of End of Life of patients diagnosed with neurodegenerative diseases. He has led several clinical trials in palliative care, rehabilitation care, and geriatric care with a particular interest in digital biomarkers of pain and discomfort.

He joined the EPFL at the project coordination office, for the scientific and technical coordination of the Human Brain project before joining I-DAIR as the R&D Director and deputy CEO. Currently, he is in charge of the monitoring and development of a large multilateral research projects portfolio in partnerships with multiple international organizations such as the WHO, UNICC, UNITAR, and ITU. He is leading, inter alia, the development of hardware and software components of a clinical machine learning research infrastructure (TRI) for LMIC, the development of an immersive learning environment for AI/ML in medical schools, and the development of digital public goods and benchmarking for digital health and mental health.

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Mr. Raman Jit Singh Chima

Asia Pacific Policy Director, Senior International Counsel and and Global Cybersecurity Lead, Access Now

Raman Jit Singh Chima serves as Asia Policy Director and Senior International Counsel at Access Now, leading the organisation’s work in protecting an open internet and advancing the rights of users at risk across the region. He is a founding volunteer with the SaveTheInternet.in Net Neutrality Coalition and assisted the legal team involved in the Supreme Court of India’s landmark Shreya Singhal v. Union of India judgment on internet free speech. Prior to this, he served as Policy Counsel and Government Affairs Manager with Google based in Delhi across 2010-2014 and advised government, industry bodies and academia on technology policy issues.

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Dr. Uma Nambiar

Chairperson, Digital Health India Association

Dr. Uma Nambiar, Chairperson, DHIA (Digital Health India Association); Executive Director, Gimcare Hospital, Kannur; Vice-President, Telemedicine Society of India, Kerala Chapter; Knowledge Partner, AHBS(Africa Health Business Symposium) and Non-Executive Director, Hemas Group of Hospitals, Sri Lanka is specialized in strategic consulting, health care policies, commissioning new hospitals, process reengineering in existing hospitals, process standardization and quality in healthcare, healthcare IT, healthcare administration and clinical/biomedical engineering. She holds an M.Ch degree in Neurosurgery and MBBS from Armed Forces Medical College.

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