MoU Signing Ceremony between National ICT R&D Fund, FAST-NU and CureMD to Jointly Develop Next-Generation Knowledge-Aware Intelligent Clinical Decision Support System

Islamabad, 3 July 2009: A Memorandum of Understanding has been inked between National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (NUCES) Research Center nexGIN RC, CureMD and National ICT R&D Fund with the aspiration to collaborate for providing accumulated industrial expertise in order to develop an intelligent Clinical Decision Support System. The MoU was signed by Dr. Qasim Sheikh, CEO National ICT R& D Fund, Bilal Hashmat, CEO CureMD and Dr. Amir Muhammad, Rector NUCES. The signing ceremony was also attended by other senior officials from the three organizations.

According to the MoU, CureMD will offer the technical expertise for their developed Electronic Health Records System, providing de-identified medical records of the patients without disclosing their personal information solely for research and development of Clinical Decision Support Systems.

National ICT R&D Fund (Ministry of IT & Telecom) will help this initiative by facilitating funding for the collaboration, once the proposal is approved through the evaluation process of ICTRDF, which might be jointly submitted by CureMD and nexGIN RC.

Correspondingly, NUCES Research Center will duly acknowledge CureMD as an organizational partner and National ICT R&D Fund for its support on its website.

CureMD will be the first organization to launch the established product of “Intelligent Clinical Decision Support System” and both parties (CureMD and nexGIN RC NUCES) as joint co owners shall have an exclusive, perpetual, royalty free, world wide right to market, develop, test and internally use the established product and intellectual property rights (IPR) on a revenue sharing formula mutually agreed by CureMD and nexGIN RC.

The MoU between CureMD, nexGIN RC NUCES and National ICT R&D Fund proposes dynamic e-health solutions to medical practice in Pakistan. Once developed and implemented, it can significantly improve efficiency in health care delivery, improved quality of care, and improved patient safety.

National ICT R&D Fund (Ministry of IT & Telecom) remains committed to facilitate high-quality ICT initiative by providing funding opportunities to concrete ICT related R&D proposals.