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<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> <title>The Koita Centre for Digital Oncology | KCDO</title> <meta name="Description" content="The Koita Centre for Digital Oncology - KCDO is part of the National Cancer Grid – NCG focusses on Digital Health Technology to enhance cancer care in India."> <meta name="Keywords" content="The Koita Centre for Digital Oncology, KCDO, Non-Profit Organisation for Digital Health, Non-Profit Organisation for Digital Cancer Care, Non-Profit Organisation for Digital Oncology, National Cancer Grid, Tata Memorial Centre, Koita Foundation, National Health Authority – NHA, Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission - ABDM"> <link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-icon" href="../favicon.ico"> <link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com"> <link rel="preload" href="src/fonts/fontawesome-webfont.woff2?v=4.7.0" as="font" type="font/woff2" crossorigin=""> <link href="../src/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"> <style> body { opacity: 0; } </style> <script src="../src/js/jquery-3.6.0.min.js"></script> <!--Schema Tag --> <!--Schema tag --> <!-- Global site tag (gtag.js) - Google Analytics --> <script src="../includes/header-scripts.js"></script> </head> <body class="inner-body"> <!-- Header --> <div id="divTop"></div> <!-- Header --> <!-- wrapper --> <div class="wrapper"> <div class="body-content"> <div class="inner-body-content"> <div class="masthead"> <div class="container-fluid g-0"> <div class="row align-items-stretch g-0"> <div class="col-lg-6 order-lg-2"> <div class="masthead-corner"></div> <img src="../src/images/masthead-about.jpg" class="img-fluid" alt="About Us" title="About Us"> </div> <div class="col-lg-6 order-lg-1"> <div class="d-flex align-items-center masthead-text container-xxl h-100"> <h1 class="mb-0 fw-light">About Us</h1> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="clearfix w-100"></div> <div class="content-bg"> <div class="container py-5"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-lg-6"> <div class="wow fadeInUp"> <h2 class="text-primary"> About Koita Centre for Digital Oncology (KCDO) </h2> <p>KCDO helps NCG and NCG affiliated hospitals adopt digital health tools, drive collaboration and create digital transformation roadmaps, with the objective of improving the quality, affordability, accessibility and outcomes of cancer care to patients. The vision of KCDO is closely aligned with NCG’s vision to deliver uniform cancer care, drive cancer research and reduce costs of cancer care across India. </p> <p>KCDO enables NCG and NCG hospitals pilot and adopt new technologies - including AI/ML, big data, automation, cloud, mobile - which benefit hospitals, doctors, patients, and consumers. Embracing digital tools like tele-medicine and remote patient monitoring make care more accessible especially in semi-urban and rural areas. AI-assisted clinical decision support tools help improve doctors’ ability to provide better care, and mobile patient engagement apps help patients with medication management and better compliance to care guidelines. Similarly, use of healthcare data analytics across hospitals enables tracking and benchmarking of clinical outcomes and effectiveness of different treatment and care pathways. KCDO supports NCG in driving common digital initiatives across NCG hospitals including EMR adoption, healthcare data interoperability, reporting , and analytics. In addition, KCDO partners with academic and research organizations to promote research and development in cancer care. </p> <p>KCDO was established in August 2022 with support from the Koita Foundation, a not-for-profit organization focused on accelerating digital health adoption in India. As part of its digital health initiatives, Koita Foundation partners with many government and NGOs. It has also established the Koita Centre for Digital Health (<a href="https://www.kcdh.iitb.ac.in/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="text-link">www.kcdh.iitb.ac.in</a>) at IIT Bombay, that focuses on academic programs, research, and industry collaborations in Digital Health.</p> <p><a href="https://www.koitafoundation.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="text-link text-primary">Know More </a></p> </div> </div> <div class="col-lg-6 d-lg-block d-none"> <div class="wow fadeInUp ps-lg-5"> <div class="text-center overflow-hidden mb-4"> <img src="../src/images/pic-abt-intro.jpg" alt="About Koita Centre for Digital Oncology" title="About Koita Centre for Digital Oncology" class="img-fluid wow fadeInLeft w-100 mx-auto rounded-3" width="600" height="400"> </div> <div class="text-center wow fadeInUp"> <p class="text-dark m-0"> MOU between National Cancer Grid,<br> Tata Memorial Centre and Koita Foundation, August 2022 </p> <p class="text-dark m-0"></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="bg-gray-light position-relative"> <div class="container py-5"> <div class="text-center wow fadeInUp mb-5"> <h2 class="text-primary">KCDO Goals and Objectives</h2> <h5 class="text-dark">To achieve its vision to leverage digital health technology and enhance cancer care in India,<br> KCDO has well defined goals and objectives:</h5> </div> <div class="row row-cols-1 row-cols-lg-2 text-center text-md-start justify-content-center"> <div class="col pb-4"> <div class="card rounded-3 shadow-sm wow fadeInUp h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <div class="d-md-flex"> <div class="flex-shrink-0"> <div class="icon-round mb-3 mb-md-0 mx-auto"> <img src="../src/images/icon-quality.png" class="img-fluid" alt="Quality" title="Quality"> </div> </div> <div class="flex-grow-1 ms-md-3"> <h3 class="h5 text-dark mb-1">Quality</h3> <p class="mb-0">Leverage digital technology to improve cancer treatment workflows and patient experience e.g., clinical quality measures, guideline adherence, patient engagement, AI/ML</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col pb-4"> <div class="card rounded-3 shadow-sm wow fadeInUp h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <div class="d-md-flex"> <div class="flex-shrink-0"> <div class="icon-round mb-3 mb-md-0 mx-auto"> <img src="../src/images/icon-affordability.png" class="img-fluid" alt="Affordability" title="Affordability"> </div> </div> <div class="flex-grow-1 ms-md-3"> <h3 class="h5 text-dark mb-1">Affordability</h3> <p class="mb-0">Identify areas for cost reduction using digital health technology, data sharing etc., to make cancer care more affordable e.g., automation, cost of care benchmarking</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col pb-4"> <div class="card rounded-3 shadow-sm wow fadeInUp h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <div class="d-md-flex"> <div class="flex-shrink-0"> <div class="icon-round mb-3 mb-md-0 mx-auto"> <img src="../src/images/icon-access.png" class="img-fluid" alt="Access" title="Access"> </div> </div> <div class="flex-grow-1 ms-md-3"> <h3 class="h5 text-dark mb-1">Access</h3> <p class="mb-0">Leverage digital technology to improve access to high-quality cancer care esp. in non-urban / rural areas e.g., tele-medicine, remote patient monitoring</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col pb-4"> <div class="card rounded-3 shadow-sm wow fadeInUp h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <div class="d-md-flex"> <div class="flex-shrink-0"> <div class="icon-round mb-3 mb-md-0 mx-auto"> <img src="../src/images/icon-productivity.png" class="img-fluid" alt="Productivity" title="Productivity"> </div> </div> <div class="flex-grow-1 ms-md-3"> <h3 class="h5 text-dark mb-1">Productivity</h3> <p class="mb-0">Leverage digital tools and automation to improve the clinical and administrative workflows, reducing the manual and redundant activities</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col pb-4"> <div class="card rounded-3 shadow-sm wow fadeInUp h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <div class="d-md-flex"> <div class="flex-shrink-0"> <div class="icon-round mb-3 mb-md-0 mx-auto"> <img src="../src/images/icon-practices.png" class="img-fluid" alt="Best Practices" title="Best Practices"> </div> </div> <div class="flex-grow-1 ms-md-3"> <h3 class="h5 text-dark mb-1">Best Practices</h3> <p class="mb-0">Identify and share India/global best practices in digital technology across NCG hospitals e.g., evidence-based care, clinical outcomes, patient engagement</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col pb-4"> <div class="card rounded-3 shadow-sm wow fadeInUp h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <div class="d-md-flex"> <div class="flex-shrink-0"> <div class="icon-round mb-3 mb-md-0 mx-auto"> <img src="../src/images/icon-rnd.png" class="img-fluid" alt="Research & Development" title="Research & Development"> </div> </div> <div class="flex-grow-1 ms-md-3"> <h3 class="h5 text-dark mb-1">Research & Development</h3> <p class="mb-0">Partner with healthcare start-ups, industry bodies and other organizations to drive R&D in cancer, and to help monetize research in NCG</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="container py-5"> <div class="text-center wow fadeInUp mb-5"> <h2 class="text-primary">Alignment with Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) and National Initiatives</h2> </div> <div class="row position-relative border-box"> <div class="col-lg-5 position-relative"> <div class="pic-border mb-4 wow fadeInDown"> <img src="../src/images/pic-abdm.jpg" class="img-fluid rounded-3" alt="The National Health Authority (NHA)" title="The National Health Authority (NHA)"> </div> </div> <div class="col-lg-7 data-border wow fadeInUp"> <div class="border-content p-lg-5"> <p>India has embarked on an ambitious national initiative to use digital tools to improve health. The National Health Authority (NHA) is rolling out the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) platform across the country. ABDM will be a strong enabler for creating individual patient records, sharing health information with doctors and healthcare facilities and driving use of e-claims. This will benefit all stakeholders – consumers, patients, doctors, hospitals and other healthcare organisations (including labs, pharmacies, and health insurance), and transform healthcare across the country. Once rolled out, ABDM’s impact on healthcare will be very significant – like the impact of Aadhar and UPI on India.</p> <p>KCDO and NCG have unique opportunity to play a pivotal role in driving digital technology adoption for cancer care. By aligning with ABDM and national government digital health programs, KCDO and NCG will have a lasting positive impact on all stakeholders in cancer care – doctors, hospitals, healthcare providers and most importantly patients and citizens.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <!-- Breadcrumb --> <div class="container-fluid small pt-3 p-0 bg-white"> <nav class="d-flex justify-content-center" style="--bs-breadcrumb-divider: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' width='8' height='8'%3E%3Cpath d='M2.5 0L1 1.5 3.5 4 1 6.5 2.5 8l4-4-4-4z' fill='gray'/%3E%3C/svg%3E");" aria-label="breadcrumb"> <ol class="breadcrumb"> <li class="breadcrumb-item"><a href="https://www.kcdo.in/">Home</a></li> <li class="breadcrumb-item active" aria-current="page">About Us</li> </ol> </nav> </div> <!-- Breadcrumb --> </div> <!-- :: Footer :: --> <div id="divFooter"></div> <!-- :: Footer :: --> </div> <!-- wrapper --> <noscript id="deferred-styles"> <link href="../src/css/ds.css" rel="stylesheet"> <link rel="stylesheet" media="" href="../src/css/ds-pages.css"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Roboto:wght@400;500;700;900&display=swap"> </noscript> <script> var loadDeferredStyles = function () { var addStylesNode = document.getElementById("deferred-styles"); var replacement = document.createElement("div"); replacement.innerHTML = addStylesNode.textContent; document.body.appendChild(replacement) addStylesNode.parentElement.removeChild(addStylesNode); }; var raf = requestAnimationFrame || mozRequestAnimationFrame || webkitRequestAnimationFrame || msRequestAnimationFrame; if (raf) raf(function () { window.setTimeout(loadDeferredStyles, 0); }); else window.addEventListener('load', loadDeferredStyles); </script> <script src="../src/js/ds-script.js" defer="defer"></script> <script src="../src/js/bootstrap.bundle.min.js" defer="defer"></script> <script> $(document).ready(function () { $("#offcanvas-toggle").on("click", function (n) { return $("html").toggleClass("open-menu"), !1 }), $("div#offcanvas-overlay").on("click", function () { $(".offcanvas-collapse").removeClass("open"), $("html").removeClass("open-menu"), $(".offcanvas-toggle").removeClass("is-open") }) }); $(function () { 'use strict' $('[data-toggle="offcanvas"]').on('click', function () { $('.offcanvas-collapse').toggleClass('open') }) }) $(document).ready(function () { GetHeader("liAboutUs"); }); </script> </body> </html>