National Digital Health Mission

The Prime Minister of India- Narendra Modi executed the National Digital Health Mission on 15th August 2020. The mission focuses to create an integrated healthcare system linking practitioners with patients digitally by giving them entry or accessibility  to real-time health records. It will promote prompt and structured healthcare across the country.

National Digital Health Mission-Insights

The Prime Minister of India- Narendra Modi executed the National Digital Health Mission on 15th August 2020. The mission focuses to create an integrated healthcare system linking practitioners with patients digitally by giving them entry or accessibility  to real-time health records. It will promote prompt and structured healthcare across the country.

National Digital Health Mission-History

The Prime Minister of India- Narendra Modi executed the National Digital Health Mission on 15th August 2020. The mission focuses to create an integrated healthcare system linking practitioners with patients digitally by giving them entry or accessibility  to real-time health records. It will promote prompt and structured healthcare across the country.

• National Health Policy 2017 aims to provide
  • Highest level of health and wellbeing for all at all ages
  • Preventive and promotive health care orientation in all development policies
  • Universal healthcare access
• MoH&FM set up a committee under J. Satyanarayana to develop an executive framework for the National Health Stack
• The Satyanarayana committee recommended drafting a National Digital Health Blueprint to lay down the basic and action plan for a digital health mission
• The National Digital Mission Blueprint recommended the establishment of an entity called National Digital Health Mission to provide for a digital healthcare ecosystem for healthcare services across the country.
• The National Health Authority that is the top authority to execute the National Digital Health Mission is also the implementing authority of Ayushman Bharat.

National Digital Health Mission-Objectives

The Prime Minister of India- Narendra Modi executed the National Digital Health Mission on 15th August 2020. The mission focuses to create an integrated healthcare system linking practitioners with patients digitally by giving them entry or accessibility  to real-time health records. It will promote prompt and structured healthcare across the country

1. Establishment of Digital Health Systems
   • Core digital health data managed by these systems
   • To manage the Infrastructure requirements for seamless exchange of services.
2. Creation of Registries
   • It will have all credible data of clinical establishments, healthcare professionals, health workers, drugs, and pharmacies
3. Enforcement of adoption of open standards by all national digital health stakeholders
4. Establishment of Standardized personal health records
   • It will take inspiration from international standards
   • Based on an individual’s informed consent, the records can be easily shared between individuals and healthcare professionals, and services providers.
5. Enterprise-class health application systems
   • The aim will be to achieve health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
6. Adoption of cooperative federalism while coordinating with states and union territories.
7. Promotion of private players’ participation along with the public health authorities
8. Making healthcare services portable nationally.
9. Promotion of Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Systems by healthcare professionals.
10. Digitally manage:
    • Identifying people, doctors, and health facilities,
    • Facilitating electronic signatures
    • Ensuring non-repudiable contracts
    • Making paperless payments
    • Securely storing digital records, and
    • Contacting people

The National Digital Health Mission is set to be built alongside the existing public digital infrastructure like PM Jan-Dhan Yojana.

National Digital Health Mission-Components

There are four components:

1. National Health Electronic Registries
2. A Federated Personal Health Records (PHR) Framework – It will fight twin challenges of:
   • Access to healthcare reports/data by the patients and the healthcare provider for treatment
   • Making the data available for medical research
3. A National Health Analytics Platform
4. Other Horizontal Components like:
   • Unique Digital Health ID,
   • Health Data Dictionaries
   • Supply Chain Management for Drugs,
   • Payment gateways

National Digital Health Mission-Importance

1. The institutional framework of the mission runs at different levels starting from the apex level, followed by the board of directors, CEO, and operations.
2. It is an IT-enabled healthcare infrastructure system
3. Health ID – It will be a repository of all health-related information. Every participating stakeholder including healthcare providers and Indian citizens will be part of this health ID system on a voluntary basis. A unique health ID will be created by every citizen interested to access the benefits of this mission.
4. Health data consent managers will be linked with unique health IDs of the patients; who will aid the seamless exchange of the health records between the patient and the doctors.
5. The healthcare services will be provided through a mobile app or through an official website.
6. Digi Doctor – He/she will be the one who will be responsible for providing healthcare services across the country. An interested healthcare professional can act as a digital doctor to provide prescriptions to patients sitting in a different location altogether. He/she will be assigned free digital signatures which can be used to prescribe medicines.

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