IIT-Madras partners with Roche for research in healthcare

The focus is on research into ethical and responsible use of AI. File
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The Indian Institute of Technology Madras’ Centre for Responsible AI has tied up with Switzerland-based Roche Diagnostics for research related to analytics and AI solutions. 

Roche will participate and contribute to working groups for policy discussions and preparing whitepapers. Roche has joined CeRAI as a gold consortium member following a memorandum of understanding between the two organisations.

Roche is a global leader in in-vitro diagnostics and developer of digital health solutions. CeRAI is a virtual interdisciplinary research centre at IIT Madras. The centre aims to pursue research in the domains of ethical and responsible AI and become the standard body in the country to recommend guidelines and policies to make deployable AI models/systems accountable, explainable and responsible. Roche is a provider of diagnostic solutions for clinics, laboratories, doctors and patients, world over. 

The IITM-CeRAI Roche symposium on responsible AI in healthcare was organised at the institute on Monday. The collaboration aims to drive research, develop ethical frameworks and collaborate with academia to ensure AI innovations in healthcare remain responsible, equitable and beneficial to all, Roche officials said.