Team IIHMR
Dr. Nishikant Bele
Associate Professor & Controller of Examinations
Nishikant Bele is a Digital Health and Health Informatics professional with over 26+ years of experience spanning digital technologies, healthcare management, health information systems, data analytics, business intelligence, academic leadership, research, and institutional digital transformation.
He is currently serving as Associate Professor at the International Institute of Health Management Research (IIHMR), New Delhi, where he contributes to postgraduate education, curriculum development, research, healthcare analytics, digital health, health information technology, and management education.
From 2020 to 2023, he served as Information Technologist with the South-East Asia Regional Coordination Mechanism Forum (SRCMF), New Delhi, on deputation from IIHMR. This experience provided exposure to the application of information technology, data, digital systems, and technology-enabled approaches in public health and regional health programmes.
His professional expertise combines healthcare domain knowledge with information technology, business analytics, data management, digital health enterprise systems, and digital transformation. His areas of interest include Digital Health, Health Information Systems, Hospital Information Systems, Healthcare Analytics, Business Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Healthcare, Health Data Management, Digitalization of Hospital Services, and technology-enabled healthcare delivery.
He has undertaken and contributed to research related to digitalization of hospital services, healthcare operations, healthcare technology, machine learning, text mining, data analytics, and digital health innovations.
With a background in Ph.D. and MCA, combined with extensive academic, research, technology, and healthcare-sector experience, he is well positioned to contribute to digital health programmes involving health system digital transformation, HIS/HMIS implementation, healthcare process digitization, data and analytics, digital health strategy, capacity building, monitoring and evaluation, and technology-enabled health services.
Research Projects
Research Publications
- Neogi B Sutapa, Pagaria Vikram, Dutta Sharbari, Bele Nishikant, YadavPrateeksha, Samtani Ratika(2025). Scan and share to register outpatients, India ,
- Bulletine World Health Organization, 2025;103:164–169| doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.24.292828
- Panigrahi, R., Bele, N., Panigrahi, P. K., & Gupta, B. B. (2024). Features level sentiment mining in enterprise systems from informal text corpus using machine learning techniques. Enterprise Information Systems, 18(5). https://doi.org/10.1080/17517575.2024.2328186
- Bele Nishikant, Panigrahi,Prabin Srivastava Shashikant, “Knowledge Discovery from Vernacular Expressions: An Application of Social Media and Text Mining”., International Journal of Knowledge Management, (SCOPUS, ABDC Index), Volume 14 • Issue 1 • January-March 2018, IGI Global, DOI: 10.4018/IJKM.2018010101
- Nishikant Bele, Sanjiv Kumar, Jigmi Singay, “Digitization of Hospital Services and Operations: A Conceptual Framework”, International Journal of Healthcare Education & Medical Informatics, Volume 5, Issue 1 - 2018, DOI: https://doi.org/10.24321/2455.9199.201801, ISSN: 2455-9199
- Bele Nishikant, Panigrahi,Prabin,(2018) “Sentiment Mining from Blog Reviews at Features Level”, 7th International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Applications, Sydney, Australia, Jan 8-10-2018
- Bele Nishikant, Panigrahi Prabin, Srivastava Shashikant( 2017),” Political Sentiment Mining: A New Age Intelligence Tool for Business Strategy Formulation”, International Journal of Business Intelligence Research (IJBIR). Volume 8 , Issue 1 ,January-June 2017,pp. 55-70. IGI Global. DOI: 10.4018/IJBIR.2017010104 ( ACM, ABDC Index)
- Panigrahi Prabin, Bele Nishikant, ,”A Review of Recent Advances in Text Mining of Indian Languages", Inderscience the International Journal of Business Information System(IJBIS) Vol. 23, No. 2, 2016.pp. 175-193 DOI: 10.1504/IJBIS.2016.10000214 (SCOPUS Index)
- Kumar Sanjiv, Bele Nishikant,” technology to the rescue”, “InnoHealth” first Innovation in Healthcare Qtrly Magazine, Volume 3 ,Issue 3 , Jul-Sep 2017
- Bele Nishikant, Ratha B.K. (2015),” Framework for opinion Mining from Web Blogs”, International Journal of Advance Research in Computer Science, Vol.6, No. 6, pp. 113-116
- Bele Nishikant, Ratha B.K.(2015), “Framework to mining virtual community from Blogs “ International conference on Emerging Trends in Computer Science, Communication and Information Technology
- Bele Nishikant, Panigrahi Prabin (2013),” Survey of Text Mining in Indian Languages” Selected for ACM’s International Conference on Reliable and Convergent system, Canada. Oct. 2013. (selected but not present the paper) (SCI Index)
- Bele Nishikant (2012),” The Impact & Future of Blog”, Proceedings of 7th National Conference on Communication Technologies and its impact on Next Generation Computing, Feb 20,2012
Other Assignments
Papers/Chapters in Books
- Chapter review on “Exploration of Transformative Technologies in Healthcare 6.0” IGI Global Scientific Publishing
- Reviewed the book titled “IT for Management” for Oxford University Press
Papers Presented
Trainings & Workshops
MDP/FDP CONDUCTED
- Conducted a Management Development Programme for U.P Provincial Armed Constabulary on Computer Fundamentals & Proficiency training
- Conducted FDP on ERP SAP for ITS Institute of Management faculty.
WORKSHOPS ATTENDED:
- Attended LEAD-2 workshop organized by Ortho Lab Diagnostics
- Attended conference on Rural Health and sustainable development in India
- Attended STTP on Big Data Computing organized by IMS Gaziabad
- Attended STTP on Data Mining: Privacy and Security Issues organized by NIT Surat
- Attended National seminar on Emerging Trends in Distributed Computing and system organized by GITM New Delhi
- Attended SAP Certification Workshop organized by SAP Lab, Bangalore
- Attended SAP Workshop organized by SAP UAP at IMI, New Delhi
- Attended Faculty Development Program in Bhopal, organized by Maharishi University India in collaboration with Maharishi University, Iowa, USA.
- Attended the Content Development Workshop organized by Apple Inc., India
- Attended Case Development Workshop organized by Department of Management Studies, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi
- Attended Workshop on “ Business Intelligence”, organized by SAP India
Membership of Scientific & Academic Organizations
- Inderscience Int. J. of Business Intelligence and Data Mining
- 7th International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Applications, Sydney, Australia, Jan 8-10-2018
- 7th International Conference on Society and Information Technologies, USA
Awards Obtained