Digital technology now extends throughout many aspects of our daily lives. Most of us now use it at work, at home, in our social lives, when we look for information, book flights or pay for goods or services. In the past ten years alone, we have witnessed an extraordinary change in how digital technology affects our everyday lives. Online services have become faster and more accessible, the use of smartphones and smartphone apps has become ubiquitous, broadband and high- speed connections have become far more readily available. Digital Health is key to supporting the health service in delivering universal healthcare, in planning for the population’s health needs, building integrated care models, and ensuring safety, quality and sustainability in delivering health services.

Digital Health is key to transforming the delivery of integrated health and Public Healthcare services to patients and also brings out improved productivity and efficiency among the healthcare staff. Connected Healthcare needs underlying digitally enabled ecosystem support including digital Health records (EHR). The Ayushaman Bharat allows patients and healthcare professionals to receive digital lab reports, prescriptions and diagnosis seamlessly from verified healthcare professionals and health service providers

The Biobank is a large program that helps researchers study how genes, the environment, and lifestyle can affect a person’s health. It’s a biorepository of biological material and health information, with samples from variety of patients. Participation in Biobank is completely voluntary. The patient consents to sharing information from their electronic health record (EHR) with researchers. This includes their medical history, family history, and demographics. They also complete a brief survey of their lifestyle and environment. Patients respond to questions about things like physical activity levels, smoking habits, occupation, and sleeping routines. The Centre of Excellence in Healthcare stores the patient’s data in the Biobank’s web-based query tool, which system researchers can access directly.

The national Scenario

Health sector in rural and urban areas of India is one of the most stressed social sectors. It caters to the regional requirements of secondary and tertiary Health Infrastructure. The contributing healthcare Success Factor for Rural and Urban India shall be….

Harnessing the power of Digitalization and new technologies (AI, IOT, Bluetooth Tags, etc) the researchers are able to identify the fundamental characteristics of diseases, which could enable advances in patient care, identify the risk and vulnerabilities of other patients getting a disease. Such research outcomes shall be varied from traditional assessment of dieseases and help to nurture better Health Outcomes and support wellbeing of both Patient and Providers.

Following are the six principles seamless, safe, secure, and connected digital health services. seamless, safe, secure, and connected digital health services that leverages the latest digital and data technologies and solutions

Patient as a digitally empowered partner:

The Center of Excellence digital technologies and Research initiatives shall empower patients by giving them broader access to their own health information through a patient app, provide access to more digital health services, including virtual care offerings, whilst enabling greater autonomy and choice over their care options.

Workforce and workplace:

The Healthcare workforce need crucial data and digital information to enable technology, systems, and skills they need to deliver the best possible care and services to patients in the modernised healthcare system.

Digitally Enabled and Connected Care:

We will drive future investment and make architectural decisions based on the ability of systems to share clinical information and deliver connected care. We will make it possible for healthcare professionals, and others who support delivery of care, to be able to access the information needed about their patients when and where they need it, regardless of where those patients were treated previously.

Data driven services:

We will leverage data analytics, business intelligence, visualisation, dashboards, and other digitally enabled management tools to provide greater insights into the health service and its operation. This will create opportunities for increased productivity, efficiency and more precise direction of resources to areas of greatest need, and where they will have the maximum impact.

Digital health ecosystem & innovation:

We will embed continuous improvement within the health and social care system. This will be enabled by innovation via improving ongoing collaboration, improved procurement pathways, increased participation, and promoting research excellence. This strategic principle also details key considerations for the Digital health ecosystem as we prepare for the technologies of the future.

Secure foundations & digital enablers:

We will continue to build cyber resilience and put in place the key enablers needed to deliver this digital health strategic roadmap, underpinned by strong governance, cultural change, standards, interoperability, infrastructure, architecture, and legislation.