Soon, natn'l digital health project a reality

New Delhi: Moving towards digitisation of healthcare, the health ministry has worked out a detailed e-health project under digital India initiative of the government.

The project would include hospital information system, electronic health record facilitated with health information exchange, online delivery of services, citizen portal, online monitoring systems for services and others, health minister JP Nadda informed the Lok Sabha on Friday.

Nadda said the ministry is developing a digital platform - Integrated Health Information Platform (IHIP) - to enable creation of inter-operable health record which can be made available and accessible nationwide.

“Health Ministry is working towards setting up of IHIP to enable creation of inter-operable health record which can be made available and accessible nationwide,” Nadda said.

Besides, the health ministry is also setting up National E-Health Authority as a statutory body for promotion and adoption of e-health standards, to enforce privacy and security measures for electronic health data and to regulate storage and exchange of electronic health records, he added.

He said under the National Health Mission (NHM), states and Union Territories are being provided assistance to bring various hospitals such as district and sub-district hospitals online. National health portal has also been set up to provide healthcare related information to citizens.

“Standards of Electronic Health Record has been notified by Health Ministry in 2013 so that uniformity and standardisation could be ensured among different e-health systems,” Nadda said.