The IndiMR Vision
  • A Proposal to Revolutionize India’s Healthcare
  • What Do We Propose?
  • Problems
    • Lack of Medical Facilities and Expertise
    • Lack and Unavailability of Medical Records
    • Lack of Data Standards and Interoperability
    • Increased Costs to People and Organizations
    • Lack of Reliable Data for Policy and Medical Research
    • Poor Spread of Health Insurance
    • Pilferage, Corruption, Fraud and Inefficiencies
  • General Contours of the Proposed Project
    • Why Open Source?
  • India’s Unique Position, Why India? Why Now?
  • Requirements and Unique Challenges
    • mHealth Centric
    • Blockchain Based
    • Knowledge-Based System – Separation of Knowledge from Software
    • Flexible and Composable
    • Collaboration and Workflow Orientation
    • Role of Artificial Intelligence
    • Integration of Miscellaneous Healthcare Associated Processes
    • Force Multiplier Effect – Orchestra Model
  • Benefits for India
    • Improved Healthcare for Indians
    • Public Health Impact
    • Health and Healthcare Policy Research
    • Spurt in Technology Innovation
    • Boon for Private Sector
    • Boost to Insurance Sector
    • Standards-Based Approach
    • Job Creation in Healthcare
    • Centralized Functions with Economies of Scale
    • Increased Soft Clout for India
  • Funding for Pilot Project and the Prototype System
  • Counter Arguments
    • "Indian Healthcare has so many basic problems, why not solve them first?"
    • "But This Has Already Been Done!"
  • Conclusions
  • Authors
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The effort of developing a modern EMR that is scalable to a national level will lead to creation of an ecosystem with a range of skills and expertise in technologies such as mobile telephony, blockchain, sensors, artificial intelligence, big data etc. The system will serve as a backbone on which solutions based on novel technologies can progressively be added. Academic institutions, as well as companies, will find niches of interest in the ecosystem.

Innovation in technology in India has slipped considerably in the last decade. More recently, there has been a welcome surge in entrepreneurs offering new tools and apps that target healthcare. Even the health ministry has provided a clutch of apps to the citizens to address some of their needs. However, all such apps are disjointed, islands unto themselves, mostly aimed at providing information or helping the users achieve some limited goals, using patient’s data only minimally. Furthermore, the data collected during usage of such apps ends up in silos, which is of little use to the policy makers or the health professionals.

With NEMRS in place, the developers will be building their healthcare apps for the NEMRS framework, using the rich API it provides, allowing access to relevant information from the system, and in turn feeding all data the apps collect, back into the system.

A critical ingredient for an innovative ecosystem is an open source culture. Despite India’s substantial investment and involvement in software technology, the open source culture has not found roots. The impetus that NEMRS open source project will provide will help in developing such a culture.

Launching a project of this wide scope can be the trigger to propel India into a new era of innovation.

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