The National Health Authority (NHA) has been tasked with implementing the National Digital Health Mission, which aims at ramping up IT infrastructure in the health sector. Under this mission, it is looking at providing unique health ID and enabling Electronic Health Records in India, said it CEO Dr Indu Bhushan.
Bhushan, who is also the CEO of Ayushman Bharat, delivered the inaugural address for the fifth class of Advanced Management Programme for Healthcare (AMPH) offered by Max Institute of Healthcare Management (MIHM) at Indian School of Business (ISB).
In an online talk on ‘Ayushman Bharat 2.0 – The next frontier’, he said: “Through PM-JAY, we are trying to decrease the disease burden in India. The programme is aimed at decreasing the out-of-pocket expense by people through increased public expenditure on healthcare services and delivery. We are leveraging IT to connect payers, beneficiaries and hospitals, along with enhancing capacity-building, monitoring and evaluation, portability, awareness generation grievance redressal and fraud prevention.”
Professor Sarang Deo, Executive Director, Max Institute of Healthcare Management (MIHM) and Professor of Operations Management at ISB welcomed the class, which has 41 participants. More than 70 per cent of them are doctors. The class has an average work experience of 12 years and come from work environments such as hospitals, consultancy firms, health tech and pharma companies, a release said.
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Source: Telangana Today
