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Health Ministry launches health information platform to monitor public health surveillance
Union Ministry Health and Family Welfare has soft-launched Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP) segment of Integrated Health Information Platform (IHIP) in seven states. The first one-of-its-kind initiative lannched by the Central Government to monitor public health surveillance. Integrated Health Information Platform (IHIP) It is real time, village wise, case based electronic health information system with ..
Month: Current Affairs - November, 2018
Topics: Health • Health informatics • Health Information Platform • Health Ministry • IHIP • Integrated disease surveillance program • Integrated Health Information Platform • Medical monitoring • Public health • Public health surveillance
Draft Digital Health Security Law
The central government has put in the public domain the draft of a law to ensure protection of health data. The features of the bill include: The law makes any breach punishable by up to five years imprisonment and a Rs 5-lakh fine. It proposes that any health data including physical, physiological and mental health ..
Topics: Current Affairs – October, 2017 • Electronic Health Record • Health • Health data • Health informatics • Health information exchange • Medical privacy • Medical record • Privacy
Telemedicine technology to be commercialized by DRDO
Soon experts’ diagnosis and advises will be available for people living in rural and remote areas in India. They will not need to go to hospitals located in urban centers. The DRDO will soon commercialize its telemedicine technology which was primarily developed for the armed forces that will make it accessible to civilians especially in ..
Month: Current Affairs - July, 2012
Topics: Defence Research and Development Organisation • Health informatics • India • Ministry of Defence • Telemedicine • Videotelephony