Elets eHealth’s Post

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Focus area on the digital health is essentially creating an enabling environment need for governance framework which is extremely important digital health policies implementation and capacity building. Now, what are the strategies, What we can call the pillars? First is planning and monitoring in which we have areas like Ayushman Bharat Digital Health Mission, which is an extremely, extremely important area. And I don't think there will be any magazine in the world pertaining to electronic health which will not be, you know, very eager to cover as to how we are embarking on this. Even the most advanced countries like Netherlands in health space, European Union and health space. They are struggling with the issue of interoperability. How do you maintain the issues of data privacy? How do you maintain the issue of data security and health standards? And myself, being part of OECD Global Forum as an information security expert for the last six years, I understand the significance of data security and I have to awaken the health sector that once we embark on interoperability, once we embark on the issue. Of exchange of data, health data records, then we also have to be very conscious about the fact of data security. How do you maintain data security? Health sector is not immune to attacks as we have seen in the past, be it government, be it private sector, you have to take appropriate measures for maintaining data security. Unlike the financial sector where the current data is important and as we grow older, the data becomes less relevant. In the health sector, the reverse happens. As we grow older, the data becomes more and more important and it has commercial value and therefore data security is so important next. I used Human Bharat Digital Health Mission. Now as I said, who wouldn't like to talk about it. This is one platform which is integrating, integrating the central government, the state government health sectors, the private hospitals, the private practitioners, the government service, health practitioners, the insurance, the service providers. And it is talking about what is going to be the data standards, what is going to be the interoperability standards.