The pandemic was pivotal to healthcare’s digital transformation. Overnight, locked-down populations switched to telemedicine to consult their doctors. The pharmaceuticals industry leveraged the computing power of advanced digital technologies – cloud computing, machine learning and advanced analytics – to crash vaccine development timelines. India used its vast digital public infrastructure to manage the world’s largest … Read more
Budget 2025 Live Updates: The Ayushman Bharat health insurance scheme has been a key project of the PM Narendra Modi-led government. The Economic Survey 2024-25, tabled on Friday in the Parliament, stated that the Ayushman Bharat scheme presently covers over 40% of the most vulnerable populations, thereby covering approximately 55 crore people. AB PM-JAY provides … Read more
New Delhi: Digital solutions hold the capacity to revolutionise the healthcare delivery systems. India aims to launch a global initiative on digital health as an institutional framework. This framework aims to converge the global efforts for digital health and scale up digital solutions with the use of cutting-edge technologies. It is time to move from … Read more
New Delhi: Leveraging India’s presidency of the G20 and the prolific actions and commitments of previous presidencies, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and the WHO South-East Asia Regional office are organising a two-day global conference on digital health – ‘Taking Universal Health Coverage to the last citizen’ on March 20-21, 2023 in … Read more
By Cara Murez HealthDay ReporterHealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, Aug. 18, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Countries that are closer to achieving universal health coverage saw smaller declines in routine childhood vaccinations during the pandemic, a new study reveals. The World Health Organization describes universal health coverage as “all individuals and communities receive the health services they need … Read more
New Delhi: National Health Authority (NHA), the implementing agency for Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) has extended an open invitation to all interested parties for sharing their Expression of Interest (EoI) for developing innovative solutions that shall help build a national digital health ecosystem for India. This collaborative approach will not just help speed up … Read more
By Kulin Shah The Budget 2022-23 aims to plug the gaps in the healthcare sphere through a National Digital Health Ecosystem. It is expected to usher a new era towards increasing the use of technology in a bid to cover a larger portion of the population under the health ambit through affordable services. Notably, budget … Read more
Single-person migration is mostly male, but we have women who come as construction workers, teachers and nurses for the rest of their families. (Photo source: IE) On need for policy interventions AJOY MEHTA: What are the kind of policy interventions that we are looking at when we look at the health of migrants? First and … Read more
A key requirement to improving healthcare access is the creation of a robust and efficient healthcare system By Narendra Varde, The goal of Universal Health Coverage is to ensure that every individual is able to obtain essential health care services without suffering financial ruin. While India pledged to meet this goal, we are still far … Read more
Globally, there is growing agreement that primary health care (PHC), with its ability to address up to 90% of a population’s diverse health needs in an affordable manner, is central to the achievement of UHC. By Stefan Nachuk, Achieving Universal health coverage (UHC) is one of the key priorities of many nations, and embedded within … Read more