84% healthcare providers to increase digital solutions budget in next 12 months: Survey – ET HealthWorld

84% healthcare providers to increase digital solutions budget in next 12 months: Survey – ET HealthWorld

Delhi: The increasing disease burden, spiralling costs and demand for quality healthcare services have placed tremendous pressure on healthcare resources. As healthcare providers strive to bring in operational efficiencies, enhance service delivery and improve health outcomes, technology is finding greater application across the value chain. With this background, Grant Thornton Bharat and the Association of … Read more

Chatbots in Healthcare: An essential tool for an essential service – ET HealthWorld

Chatbots in Healthcare: An essential tool for an essential service – ET HealthWorld

By Devashish Mamgain India’s adoption of smartphones, spurred on by a “Digital India” campaign and the COVID-19 pandemic, has led to smartphone technologies being embraced by necessity and force, resulting in almost 600 million user figures in 2021. Integrating life services like Unified Payments Interface (UPI), Aadhaar, CoWin, and WhatsApp HealthDesk into mobile phones has … Read more

ABDM building comprehensive digital health ecosystem for country – ET HealthWorld

ABDM building comprehensive digital health ecosystem for country – ET HealthWorld

New Delhi: The National Health Authority (NHA) under its flagship scheme Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) is building a comprehensive digital health ecosystem for the country. Since nationwide launch in September 2021, ABDM has achieved significant growth with over 23 crore ABHA numbers (earlier known as Health ID), 1.14 lakh health facilities registered in the … Read more

NHA onboards one lakh gov and private healthcare facilities in HFR under ABDM – ET HealthWorld

NHA onboards one lakh gov and private healthcare facilities in HFR under ABDM – ET HealthWorld

New Delhi: More than one lakh healthcare facilities across government and private sector have been successfully onboarded in the Health Facility Registry (HFR) under the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM). This historic milestone paves the way for greater adoption of digital health platform and services across the country. HFR which is being built under the … Read more

With a thrust on digitization, Union Budget 2022-23 paves way for universal healthcare

Healthcare Budget

The announcement of two key initiatives – the National Tele Mental Health Program (slated to be launched in April 2022) and a provision to create a complete Digital Health Ecosystem, which will comprise digital registries of health providers and patient records – is testimony to the government’s commitments towards standardizing access to healthcare. By Ms … Read more

Union Budget 2022-23: Digital health ecosystem will improve patient care, healthcare accessibility – ET HealthWorld

union budget 2022 23 digital health ecosystem will improve patient care healthcare accessibility

New Delhi: In line with the Government’s Digital health mission, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday announced the release of an open platform for national digital health eecosystem in the Budget 2022. The platform will store information related to healthcare providers, health facilities, healthcare seekers through unique health identities and consent framework of healthcare services … Read more