Digital Health Data

The flagship scheme Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) is making steady progress in building a comprehensive digital health ecosystem for the country

Amazon is stepping back into virtual care with a new service that uses secure messaging to connect patients with doctors for help with nearly two dozen conditions. The retail giant said on Tuesday it will launch Amazon Clinic in 32 states to provide medication refills and care for conditions like allergies, erectile disfunction, hair loss, migraine and urinary tract infections. That list does not include the flu, COVID-19, ear infections or other urgent care conditions for which patients often seek help through telemedicine. Amazon said it will work to add other conditions over time to the service, which will not accept insurance. It also plans to expand the service to more states in the coming months. Tuesday's announcement comes more than two months after Amazon said it will shut down Amazon Care, a hybrid virtual, in-home service it spent years developing. The company had launched that service in 2019 for its Washington employees. It expanded it last year, allowing private ...

The hospital asset was sold by DLF Qutub Enclave Complex Medical Charitable Trust in 2011 to Nayati Healthcare and Research NCR Pvt Ltd

Same-gender partner of a worker can sign up for health insurance programme, says company.

Google's ambitions range from mining big data for algorithms to developing disease-detecting tools to pumping wearables full of health features

The tech platform Flipkart enables access to genuine medicines and healthcare products, and services for millions of customers across the country.

This new system will ensure ease of access to doctors, regulation of patient crowds in OPDs, easier referrals and also telemedicine facilities for online consultations, Vijayan said

As India gears up to roll out Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) across the country, states are not on the same page

Tamil Nadu plans parallel programme with unique user IDs

Lack of clarity on data-sharing persists, Public health experts sceptic about the pilot that was run in six Union territories as benchmark for national roll-out

The idea is good but govt must address privacy issues

"The health ID will become popular not because it is compulsory or not but because it will offer huge facilities. The systems will be interoperable", says Sharma

Experts flag privacy concerns in absence of data protection law

The government will soon launch a special incentive scheme to support 75 start-ups in areas of telemedicine, digital health and artificial intelligence

The state administration is collaborating with the 'National Digital Health Mission' for this purpose

Lupin said it will enter the digital healthcare space in India with a focus to provide a digital therapeutics platform for doctors and patients.

The National Digital Health Mission (NDHM), as it is called, aims to provide people with a unique, digital health identifier, gathering all records in a unified system

India is Asia's third-largest economy but its total spending on health care is only about 3.5% of gross domestic product -- among the lowest rates in the world

The propesed policy is built on the foundations of legislation that doesn't exist. It also seems to be more concerned about monetisation of such data, than with the protection of privacy

Health insurance products calculated based on historical data will get better information, says T L Alamelu