Government of India’s National eHealth Authority (NeHA) will accelerate adoption of electronic health records (EHR) of patients. It will provide a well-connected ICT platform that can inter-operate across healthcare providers, both in public and private sectors, without compromising on patients’ confidentiality, informs Jitendra Arora, Director (eHealth), MoHFW, in a tete-a-tete with Prathiba Raju.
What will be the role of NeHA?
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) has envisaged NeHA as the statutory body to promote and adopt eHealth standards, of storage and exchange of EHR standards in India. It will focus on areas like policy and promotion; standard development; legal aspects including regulation, privacy and security of health data, health exchange and capacity building. NeHA’s first draft note is ready, but it would be further refined. Later, it will be submitted to the Union Health Minister, JP Nadda by the end of October 2016.
Why is NeHA essential?
Various regulatory aspects like privacy, security, access, disclosure and exchange will be taken care of by the proposed NeHA.
Every country, during the adoption of national e-health strategy, has focussed on developing an authority or agency that would take care of key regulatory and promotional issues. It is necessary to maintain privacy and confidentiality of patients’ health records. The National Knowledge Commission (NKC) in 2009 had recommended for the establishment of a National Health Information Authority (NHIA) to maintain the flow of information between various healthcare establishments and provide guidelines in the context of maintenance and use of EHR. NeHA will map the landscape of eHealth. It will monitor and evaluate eHealth uptake in the country and also increase the involvement of states by promoting to set up state health record repositories and health information exchanges.
What are the focus areas outlined under Digital India Programme for health?
Digital India Programme prepared by the Ministry of Electronics and IT covers in its ambit the use of ICT in healthcare. The programme envisages online medical consultation, online medical records, online medicine supply and pan-India exchange of patient information.
This story is from the October 2016 edition of Express Healthcare.
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