The Nashik-basedMaharashtra University of Health Sciences(MUHS) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the data science department of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), a TEACHING hospital of Harvard Medical School, for developing a search portal on diseases and their patterns.
This year, the plan is to create a search-portal using 12B2 analytical tool developed by Harvard Medical School which will be made available to MUHS and teaching hospitals free of cost. We will conduct joint training programmes for capacity building at Nashik Civil Hospital, and workshops to train our faculty students and staff to use the portal. Projects for health-quality improvement and research, using the portal, will also be undertaken,Dr Madhuri Kanitkar, vice-chancellor, MUHS, said.