Bharat in BetaPortable patient histories and interoperable health systems
Source
- Endiya Partners, National Health Stack opportunities (opens in a new tab)Issues with digitizing healthcare data; What can India do?Published: 24 Jul 2019
The idea
Address episodic, inconsistent records spread across institutions.
Why this is interesting
- The source describes health records as episodic and spread across institutions with poor interoperability. It was written before the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission, which now provides health accounts and a consent manager for sharing records, so any opening should be checked against what that public infrastructure already does.
- The source identifies an opportunity area rather than a validated customer problem. A useful first step is to choose one actor, workflow and measurable failure.
Possible starting points
Record capture at small providers
Help clinics, laboratories or pharmacies that keep paper or isolated records produce structured records that can be shared with patient consent.
Patient-held history for one condition
Help people managing a long-term condition gather earlier reports and prescriptions into one history they can share with a new doctor.
Questions to answer
- Which providers in a target region are already connected to the national infrastructure, and what stops the rest?
- Who pays for digitisation when the main beneficiary is the next provider or the patient?