Bengaluru: The scan and share services for OPD registered initiated by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare under the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) has hit a high mark with over 27,11,365 tokens being issued all over the country in different states. Karnataka has secured the second position with token count going beyond 7 … Read more
New Delhi: The Centre is planning to repurpose two main pillars of nation’s digital health systems that were used to track Covid-19 – CoWIN and Aarogya Setu – as India‘s health application. National Health Authority (NHA) CEO R.S. Sharma said that Aarogya Setu is being repurposed as India’s health application while CoWIN being repurposed for … Read more
The Union government has discontinued Aarogya Setu’s data access and sharing protocol, as it seeks to convert the contact tracing app into a ‘national health app’. Privacy activists, however, have raised concerns over the security of the personal data which has been collected since April 2020, even as new users download the app every day. … Read more
The Union government has discontinued Aarogya Setu’s data access and sharing protocol, as it seeks to convert the contact tracing app into a ‘national health app’. Privacy activists, however, have raised concerns over the security of the personal data which has been collected since April 2020, even as new users download the app every day. … Read more
by Venky Ananth Over the years, healthcare has emerged as a key sector of the Indian economy. The demand for healthcare is growing, spurred on by factors such as a burgeoning middle class, greater awareness about health, and an increasing prevalence of lifestyle diseases. Growing healthcare costs as well as the demand for quality healthcare … Read more
New Delhi: The National Health Authority (NHA) under its flagship scheme of Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) has launched a public dashboard for near real-time information on the scheme. The ABDM public dashboard displays detailed information on the core registries under the mission – Ayushman Bharat Health Account (ABHA) numbers, Healthcare Professionals Registry (HPR) and … Read more
Information Technology (IT) has played an immense role in ramping up India’s healthcare sector to handle the COVID19 pandemic. Whether through contact-tracing app Aarogya Setu or the CoWIN app driving India’s COVID vaccination drive, the IT sector has played a huge role in the management of the pandemic crisis. Participating in a special leadership dialogue … Read more
Shahid Akhter, editor, ETHealthworld, spoke to Deepak Tuli, Co-Founder, Eka.Care, to know more about the challenges associated with electronic health records and what makes it so important in the healthcare eco-system. Health care records: Indian scenarioWe’ve been hearing this word for over a decade now in India, whether it’s EHR or PHR i.e. electronic health … Read more
The Aarogya Setu contact tracing app may soon become a tool to quickly access a person’s vaccination status. The government is working on a feature where a blue tick will appear against their names once people take one dose of the vaccine. If they have taken both the doses, then two blue ticks will be … Read more
oWIN Covid-19 Vaccine Registration Portal, CoWIN App Registration for 18+ Age (PTI Photo/File image) CoWIN Vaccine Registration Online for Above 18 Age: The phase 3 of Covid-19 vaccination drive — which will include inoculation of all above the age of 18 in the country — begins May 1, and the registration for that has kicked … Read more