Health Ministry partners with Dell and Tata Trusts to provide technology solution for healthcare program

Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) has recently exchanged MoUs with Tata Trusts and Dell to provide technological platform for nationwide prevention, control, screening and management program of Non Communicable Diseases (NCDs).

NCD IT solution platform

NCD IT solution covers program-level data for screening, diagnosis, treatment, referral and follow-up activities of NCDs with aim to connect health workers, doctors and decision-makers in single, integrated platform. It will provide health records for citizens, mobile applications for health workers, web portal for medical officers and dashboards for health officials.
It is aimed at bringing healthcare technology transformation in Comprehensive Primary Health Care NCD program under Ayushman Bharat. Through implementation of this IT platform, it will be possible to track health trends across the country.
It will help to bring quality health services at door step to enable increased productivity for health workers and doctors and to facilitate monitoring of delivery of services by state and district administrators. It is hosted on Government Data Center and managed by Centre for Health Informatics, MoHFW.

NCD screening program

NCD screening program addresses Hypertension, Diabetes, Oral, Breast and Cervical cancers. It covers all men and women over age of 30 years. The program is one of modules in Ayushman Bharat’s Comprehensive Primary Healthcare (CPHC) Initiative, currently being deployed in about 200 districts across the country.

Month: Current Affairs - September, 2018