IndiaAI, ICMR Partner to Build AI Healthcare Ecosystem
Strap: The partnership will combine IndiaAI’s compute and dataset platforms with ICMR’s biomedical research expertise to develop responsible AI tools for public health.
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IndiaAI and the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) have signed an MoU to develop AI-powered healthcare solutions and expand access to biomedical datasets and computing infrastructure for researchers, startups and innovators.
The agreement, signed in New Delhi on Thursday, 7 May, brings together IndiaAI’s technology infrastructure and ecosystem capabilities with ICMR’s biomedical research and public health expertise.
The government said the partnership aims to create a nationally coherent and interoperable AI ecosystem for healthcare in India.
IndiaAI is the government’s flagship artificial intelligence initiative under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, implemented through Digital India Corporation. ICMR is India’s apex body for biomedical and health research.
Under the collaboration, the two institutions will work in three areas: the AIKosh Dataset Platform, compute access, and joint AI use-case development. ICMR will contribute anonymized and ethics-approved health research datasets, AI models and toolkits developed under its Medical Information Data for AI Solutions, or MIDAS, framework to AIKosh.
IndiaAI will provide ICMR access to GPU-based and high-performance computing infrastructure at subsidized rates, subject to defined service-level agreements. The government said this is expected to help address a key infrastructure gap in scaling advanced AI research in healthcare.
The partnership will also support the co-development of AI tools for priority public health challenges in India, using ICMR’s disease burden data and IndiaAI’s technology stack.
The MoU builds on earlier collaboration between the two institutions. In September 2025, ICMR’s National Institute for Research in Digital Health and Data Science and IndiaAI joined the HealthAI Global Regulatory Network, alongside countries including the UK and Singapore, to share safety protocols and monitor AI performance in clinical settings.
The government said the IndiaAI-ICMR collaboration is expected to support innovation at the intersection of technology and public health while adhering to ethical standards, data privacy and regulatory frameworks.
