National Centre for Disease Informatics and Research (NCDIR)

National Centre for Disease Informatics and Research (NCDIR) has been set up to undertake the creation, maintenance and development of a national data base 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 on Cancer, Diabetes and Cardio Vascular Diseases and strokes. Currently NCDIR is engaged in the preparation of the data base on cancer through the network of 27 population based, 7 hospital based cancer registries and 17 centres collaborating in the study on Patterns of Care and Survival Studies, set up under the Council’s extramurally funded National Cancer Registry Programme. 1.3 Similar data base on the other diseases are planned in the future. [more details]




