About National Centre for Disease Informatics and Research (NCDIR):
- It is a permanent institute of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), an autonomous organization under the Department of Health Research, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India.
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka
- It is one of its kind of unique institutions which utilizes information science for health research as its integral component.
- The main broad and overall objective of the centre is to sustain and develop a national research database on cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular Diseases (CVD), and stroke through recent advances in electronic information technology with a national collaborative network so as to undertake aetiological, epidemiological, clinical, and control research in these areas.
- The centre closely works with the Ministry of Health, Government of India, and other Central/State Government or other agencies to provide or plan to provide baseline information and technically help in designing, monitoring, and evaluating control programmes and activities.
- The centre encourages and extends technical support to all Central/Regional/State medical institutions and medical colleges, non-governmental or private centres for constituting and establishing data collection (on cancer, CVD, diabetes, and stroke) in their institutions along internationally acceptable and nationally adaptable formats and standards. Use of the internet and electronic information networking will be a regular feature.
- The centre plan, innovates and integrates recent advances in communications and electronic information technology to develop the emerging field of health/disease informatics and develop software modules for data capture, checking, and analysis.
