Open AccessChallenges and prospects in india's digital health journey
Author(s) -
Nachiket Gudi,
Theophilus Lakiang,
Sanjay Pattanshetty,
Suptendra Nath Sarbadhikari,
Oommen John
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
indian journal of public health/indian journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.381
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 2229-7693
pISSN - 0019-557X
DOI - 10.4103/ijph.ijph_1446_20
Subject(s) - digital health , blueprint , health informatics , health policy , hrhis , health promotion , public relations , health intervention , business , knowledge management , political science , psychological intervention , medicine , health care , computer science , public health , engineering , economic growth , nursing , economics , mechanical engineering
India's journey in the digital health arena and its contribution to the landmark resolution on digital health by the World Health Organization has been recognized globally. India has demonstrated its commitment to leverage digital health as a health system strengthening intervention, as outlined in the National Digital Health Blueprint based on which, the National Digital Health Mission (NDHM) is currently being piloted by the National health authority. Further, the Sandbox environment of NDHM is actively encouraging all the ecosystem partners to familiarize with the evolving national digital health infrastructure. The strategy to enhance the India's progress in implementation and scale-up of digital health interventions are drawing attention to workforce capacity building, harnessing health data to facilitate research and development, evidence-informed development of policies, sustaining efficiency and quality of system through appropriate monitoring, and periodic evaluation informed by frameworks specific to digital health or those adapted to evaluate health informatics applications.