Koita Centre for Digital Health - KCDH (IIT Bombay)

Name

Koita Centre for Digital Health - KCDH (IIT Bombay)

Legal name

Koita Centre for Digital Health (KCDH)

Website

https://kcdh.iitb.ac.in

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

KCDH is a non-profit academic research center at IIT Bombay focused on digital health and health informatics, established June 2021. It conducts AI/ML research across clinical, population health, and policy domains, trains researchers, and partners with 40+ hospitals, government agencies, and global institutions.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Digital Health Research and Education

NAICS

Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (54171)

SIC

Services-Commercial Physical & Biological Research (8731)

akta.pro primary industry

Health Informatics & Digital Health Programs (EDAHAGAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

Public Health Reporting, Dashboards & KPI Performance Management (HLAJANAO), Health Data, Vital Statistics & Population Health Informatics (BPAIAJAM), Scientific Data Management & Data Platforms (SDMS/Data Lakehouse for R&D) (HLAGAJAC)

Keywords

• Digital health research
• Healthcare AI
• Health informatics education
• Medical imaging analytics
• Federated learning healthcare

Headquarters

HQ city

Mumbai

HQ country

India

HQ region

Asia

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Academic Tuition and Degree Programs: Revenue from student tuition and fees for PhD, M.S. by Research, Interdisciplinary Dual Degree Program (IDDDP), and Minor programs in Healthcare Informatics. Programs are open to domestic and international students meeting IIT Bombay eligibility criteria.
2. Research Grants and Sponsored Projects: Funding from government agencies (DBT, ICMR, ANRF, DARPG), international foundations (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation), industry partners (IBM Research, Narayana Health, Tata Memorial Hospital network), and healthcare organizations for sponsored research projects in digital health.
3. Koita Foundation Support: KCDH was established with a generous contribution from alumni Rekha and Rizwan Koita under the Koita Foundation. The Koita Foundation also funds the ₹3 crore Healthcare AI Innovation Grant managed by KCDH.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

KCDH is an academic and research center at IIT Bombay that delivers digital health education through PhD, MS by Research, IDDDP, and Minor programs in Healthcare Informatics, while conducting interdisciplinary research across seven domains (LLMs in healthcare, healthcare applications, data management, AI/ML analytics, consumer health/telemedicine, computational biology, and population health). It partners with 40+ hospitals, government bodies, and industry players to clinically validate AI/ML solutions and drive India's digital health transformation, supported by a ₹3 crore Koita Foundation Healthcare AI Innovation Grant.

Product overview

KCDH at IIT Bombay is an academic and research center focused on Digital Health and Healthcare Informatics. The center offers a portfolio of academic programs including a Ph.D. Program in Digital Health, M.S. by Research in Healthcare Informatics, Interdisciplinary Dual Degree Program (IDDDP), and Minor Program. Research spans seven domains: Large Language Models in Healthcare, Healthcare Applications, Healthcare Data Management, Healthcare Analytics and AI/ML, Consumer Health and Tele-medicine, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, and Population Health and Public Health Policy. The center operates 20+ sponsored research projects and runs internship programs in partnership with healthcare organizations. The Koita Foundation Healthcare AI Innovation Grant (₹3 crore over 3 years) supports AI solution development.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Ph.D. Program in Digital Health Full-time research degree equipping students with informatics, data analytics, biomedical ethics, and AI/ML skills applied to hospital systems and public health informatics. Open to domestic and international students meeting IIT Bombay eligibility.
• M.S. by Research in Healthcare Informatics Flexible research-oriented master's providing R&D experience in informatics and data analytics with a comprehensive understanding of healthcare domains, preparing students for academic and industrial R&D environments.
• Interdisciplinary Dual Degree Program (IDDDP) in Healthcare Informatics Year-long immersive program allowing undergraduate students to pursue PG-level courses and research in Healthcare Informatics alongside their B.Tech/B.S. degree, earning a dual master's degree.
• Minor Program in Healthcare Informatics Undergraduate minor degree requiring 30 credits (five full-semester courses of 6 credits each) enabling students from any IIT Bombay department to gain specialized knowledge in healthcare informatics.
• KCDH Internship Program Summer internships (8-12 weeks) and in-semester projects hosted at healthcare informatics companies including healthcare software, medical devices, pharma, and health insurance organizations such as CitiusTech, Qure.ai, and Intelehealth.
• KCDH Sponsored Research Projects Portfolio of 20+ sponsored research projects addressing clinical decision support, medical imaging AI, disease prediction, healthcare data management, and public health applications, funded by government agencies (DBT, ICMR, ANRF, DARPG), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, IBM Research, Narayana Health, Tata Memorial, and other partners.
• Koita Foundation Healthcare AI Innovation Grant ₹3 crore grant program over three years that funds development, validation, and translation of clinically grounded AI solutions deployable in real-world healthcare settings, administered by KCDH on behalf of the Koita Foundation.

Quantifiable outcome

• ₹3 crore Healthcare AI Innovation Grant to support clinically grounded AI solutions in India
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers9 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

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No

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AI maturity

App detail

AI capability14 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

24 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Narayana HealthcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint research on development of a complete OCR framework for digitization of historical medical records. Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty (Chairman and Founder) also serves on KCDH's Advisory Board. Narayana Health is one of India's largest hospital groups providing affordable, high-quality healthcare.
• Tata Memorial HospitalcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMultiple joint research projects: AI-based prognostic approach for advanced-stage Hodgkin Lymphoma using PET-CT and pathology images; ML approach to identify proteomic networks and biomarkers driving Triple Negative Breast Cancer; Data Science Algorithms for Radiation Reduction in Computed Tomography; Assessing Quality of Cancer Care using EMRs. Dr. C S Pramesh (Director) is on KCDH's Advisory Board.
• All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New DelhicoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint research on semi-automatic segmentation and classification of CT/MR images through ischemic stroke and sarcopenia as case studies. Dr. M. Srinivas (Director, AIIMS New Delhi) serves on KCDH's Advisory Board. AIIMS leads India in medical research with over 600 publications yearly.
• Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital and Medical Research InstitutecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint research on ML-based COVID-19 severity prediction using routine laboratory biomarkers; Electronic Alert System for Acute Kidney Injury; collaboration on NMR-AI diabetes research. The 750-bed hospital is the no. 1 hospital in Western India for 5 consecutive years.
• KEM Hospital and SGS Medical CollegecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint research on NMR-AI based hybrid approach for modelling the progression of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, in collaboration with Prof. Anurag Lila (Associate Professor, Endocrinology). KEM Hospital is among India's foremost teaching and medical care institutions, serving largely underprivileged sections.
• Sankara NethralayacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint research on designing predictive model for Childhood Congenital Glaucoma using clinical and genetic data, in collaboration with Vision Research Foundation. Sankara Nethralaya is a renowned super-speciality eye hospital performing 1,200+ patient consultations and 200+ surgeries daily.
• Johns Hopkins UniversitycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint research in AI/ML and data modeling in the healthcare domain. Dr. Nitish Thakor (Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Neurology) serves on KCDH's Advisory Board. Johns Hopkins is a world-renowned institution in healthcare and medicine.
• IBM ResearchcoreTechnology or IntegrationJoint research on medical domain-specific large language modeling. Collaboration with IIT Bombay faculty (Prateek Chanda, Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Kshitij Jadhav) on Large Language Models for Differential Diagnosis and Medical Reasoning. IBM Research is at the forefront of AI in healthcare globally.
• Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMultiple ICMR-funded projects: Assisting Dermatologists with Chat-Based Multimodal Transformer Model; Development and Validation of AI-Based Binary Image Classification Algorithm for Oral Lesions across 7 states of Northeast India (with ICMR-NIRWOH and DHR); co-sponsor of NDMC workshops.
• Maharashtra University of Health Sciences (MUHS)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerIIT Bombay and MUHS have embarked on a pioneering collaboration to promote interaction and establish a robust partnership in advancing healthcare and technology. Joint plans include courses, internships, and student exchange programs tailored for engineering and medical students. This bridges the gap between disciplines and fosters innovation at the intersection of healthcare and technology.
• Vizzhy (Vardhan SK Healthcare)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint research projects in development of continuous glucose meter components and system, genome sequencing and data analytics. Vizzhy is pioneering metabolic health through multi-omics, IoT-enabled monitoring, and Generative AI to decode individual metabolic signatures.
• Oraicle Biosciences LimitedcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint research on developing an ML algorithm to identify precancerous lesions from oral mucosal images. Oraicle Biosciences was established to combat disease and mortality caused by oral cancers, focusing on evidence-based diagnostic solutions.
• 10BedICUcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint research on re-development of LLM-driven clinical assistant for intensive care units in low-resource settings. 10BedICU project created over 200 ICUs in government hospitals across 9 states during the COVID-19 pandemic, using TeleICU technology and PPP model.
• Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint research to develop an AI-based conversational interface using RAG-enabled LLM and multilingual speech recognition to enhance tobacco cessation services at Tobacco Cessation Clinics (TCCs). PHFI is a public-private initiative strengthening public health training and policy in India.
• The INCLEN Trust InternationalcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint research on HOTSTAR-SDM (Harmonized One-health Trans-Species Transmission of Antibiotics Resistance using System Dynamics Modelling). INCLEN has Clinical Epidemiology Units in 89 academic institutions across 34 countries, focusing on high-priority global health issues.
• UNICEF (India Country Office)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration on HMIS Analyzer: Visualization Dashboard for Health Data, led by Prof. Sarthak Gaurav (SJMSOM) and Prof. Satish Agnihotri (CTARA). UNICEF Maharashtra State Office supports public health data visualization for Maharashtra state programs.
• Wadhwani AIcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint research on investigating host and gut microbiome interactions in Diabetes mellitus. Wadhwani AI is dedicated to advancing AI for social impact, actively developing solutions for medical imaging, disease prediction, and healthcare management in India.
• Forschungszentrum JülichminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint research projects in digital health and healthcare areas. Forschungszentrum Jülich is one of Europe's largest interdisciplinary research centers and founding member of the Helmholtz Association, attracting researchers globally in energy, information, and bioeconomy fields.
• Amrita Vishwa VidyapeethamminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint research projects to analyze and interpret health data using AI techniques for disease prediction, early detection, and improved patient outcomes. Amrita is a multi-disciplinary research-intensive university with over 30,000 students and accredited 'A++' by NAAC.
• Goa Institute of ManagementminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint research collaboration in digital health. Goa Institute of Management is a leading business school rated among 'Best B-Schools for the World' in the Positive Impact Rating 2023, with 75+ faculty and 900+ full-time students.
• CitiusTechminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternship program in the healthcare domain for KCDH students. CitiusTech is a global leader in healthcare technology with over 6,500 professionals and revenues of USD 325+ million, among India's healthcare tech unicorns.
• Qure.aiminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternship program for KCDH students in deep learning and machine learning. Qure.ai is a breakthrough AI solution provider disrupting radiology by enhancing imaging accuracy with machine-supported tools for faster diagnosis.
• IntelehealthminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternships in large language models for telemedicine. Intelehealth is a non-profit delivering high-quality healthcare via telemedicine with an open-source platform driven by digital health assistants. Recognized by World Economic Forum and Niti Aayog as a Digital Public Good.
• National Health Authority (NHA), Government of IndiacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerKCDH supports the roll-out of Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) through research and consultation. Shri Kiran Gopal Vaska (Joint Secretary & Mission Director, ABDM) serves on KCDH's Advisory Board. KCDH serves as Regional Partner for National AI Strategy for Health (NAISH) Western Region Consultation.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI): India-headquartered public-private research and training institution in public health. KCDH is an active research partner; PHFI is comparable as a non-university, India-rooted centre driving public-health research and policy with similar academic-cum-implementation mandate.
• Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research (BMIR): Stanford School of Medicine centre focused on biomedical and clinical informatics research and graduate training. Directly comparable to KCDH in combining an academic PhD/MS research-training model with hospital-anchored translational informatics work.
• Wadhwani AI: India-based non-profit applying AI for social impact, including healthcare and disease prediction. Active KCDH research partner; comparable as an India-headquartered, mission-driven AI-healthcare entity with similar partner-network and academic engagement models.
• MIT Jameel Clinic: MIT-based academic research hub applying AI to healthcare and life sciences. Directly comparable to KCDH as a university-anchored centre advancing AI for clinical and biomedical applications, with similar researcher training and industry collaboration models.
• Imperial College / Oxford Nuffield Department of Population Health: Oxford's population-health research and graduate-training department covering epidemiology, big-data health analytics, and clinical trials. Analogous to KCDH through NDMC in producing disease-burden evidence and training population-health researchers, though operating at much larger scale.
• Imperial College Institute of Global Health Innovation: Imperial College institute driving global-health policy, digital health, and AI innovation with strong NHS and WHO adjacency. Comparable in operating model (university-hosted, policy-engaged) and in digital-health, AI, and population-health research portfolios.
• Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME): Independent population health research institute at the University of Washington producing global disease-burden estimates. Closely comparable to KCDH through the National Disease Modelling Consortium (NDMC), sharing a mission of population-level disease modelling and policy translation.
• Carnegie Mellon Center for AI Innovation in Healthcare: CMU centre applying machine learning to clinical workflows, imaging, and healthcare delivery. Closely mirrors KCDH's research portfolio across medical imaging, clinical decision support, and AI/ML for healthcare, anchored to a top engineering school.

Broad incumbents

• Google Health Research: Industrial research division of Google publishing foundational AI-for-healthcare papers (e.g., medical imaging, LLMs). Larger-scope incumbent working on similar research lines as KCDH (medical LLMs, federated learning, population health) with global scale and resources.
• Microsoft Research for Health: Industrial research arm inside Microsoft Health focused on biomedical NLP, medical imaging, and clinical AI. Overlaps KCDH's research domain (LLMs in healthcare, multimodal medical AI) but with much broader industrial scope and global compute scale.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

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