Ni-kshay Setu: Mobile application comes in handy for healthcare workers as India chases target to reduce tuberculosis burden by 2025, Health News, ET HealthWorld

Ni-kshay Setu: Mobile application comes in handy for healthcare workers as India chases target to reduce tuberculosis burden by 2025, Health News, ET HealthWorld

New Delhi: A mobile application is helping bridge the gap in knowledge regarding tuberculosis for thousands of healthcare workers as the Central government strives to achieve its ambitious target to reduce the TB burden by 2025. After its initial launch in January 2022, the “Ni-kshay Setu” app has helped over 17,000 frontline healthcare workers and … Read more

Supreme Court to hear Ram Setu PIL in February

Supreme Court to hear Ram Setu PIL in February

BJP leader Subramanian Swamy had submitted that he had already won the first round of the litigation in which the Centre accepted the existence of Ram Setu. File | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma The Supreme Court on January 12 said it would take up BJP leader Subramanian Swamy’s plea seeking a direction to declare … Read more

CoWIN, Aarogya Setu to be repurposed as India’s health application – ET HealthWorld

CoWIN, Aarogya Setu to be repurposed as India’s health application – ET HealthWorld

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

National Health Authority announces integration of Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission with Aarogya Setu app – ET HealthWorld

National Health Authority announces integration of Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission with Aarogya Setu app – ET HealthWorld

The National Health Authority on Friday announced the integration of its flagship Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission with the Aarogya Setu app, allowing users to create the 14-digit unique Ayushman Bharat Health Account numbers from the app. According to an official statement, this integration takes the benefits of the Ayushman Bharat Health Account (ABHA) number to … Read more

Aarogya Setu app to display vaccine status soon – ET HealthWorld

Aarogya Setu app to display vaccine status soon – ET HealthWorld

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

Government releases backend code of Aarogya Setu to enhance transparency, allay concerns – ET HealthWorld

Government releases backend code of Aarogya Setu to enhance transparency, allay concerns – ET HealthWorld

NEW DELHI: The government on Friday released the backend code of Aarogya Setu in the open domain that will help people understand the functioning of the COVID-19 contact-tracing app and allay apprehensions they may have around privacy and security. The source code of the Android and iOS versions of the Aarogya Setu app was released … Read more

CIC pulls up govt for ‘evasive’ RTI reply on who created Aarogya Setu – ET HealthWorld

CIC pulls up govt for ‘evasive’ RTI reply on who created Aarogya Setu – ET HealthWorld

Times News Network New Delhi: In a strongly worded order, the Central Information Commission (CIC) issued show ause notice to the ministry of electronics and information technology (MEITY) and National Informatics Centre (NIC) to explain why a penalty under the RTI Act should not be slapped on them for obstructing information regarding Aarogya Setu app, … Read more

WHO chief lauds Aarogya Setu app, says it helped health depts identify coronavirus clusters

WHO chief lauds Aarogya Setu app, says it helped health depts identify coronavirus clusters

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has lauded the Aarogya Setu app developed in India and said the Covid-19 tracking app has helped Indian health authorities identify coronavirus clusters and expand testing in those areas. WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has lauded the Aarogya Setu app. (AP photo) WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has lauded … Read more

Eight organizations and 145 individuals write to govt on concerns on Aarogya Setu app – ET HealthWorld

Eight organizations and 145 individuals write to govt on concerns on Aarogya Setu app – ET HealthWorld

BENGALURU: Eight organizations and 145 individuals have written to the Ministry of Health and Family, Ministry of Electronics and IT, and the IT Standing Committee raising serious technical, legal, ethical, and implementation concerns regarding Aarogya Setu and other apps introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic. This joint statement was drafted by the Forum for Medical Ethics … Read more