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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Improved Healthcare for Indians

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A national EMR will take Indian healthcare up a notch by providing a reliable, continuous, lifelong health record for every citizen. This will improve medical care and reduce costs. The costs are reduced by avoiding duplication of lab and radiological tests, and by quicker diagnoses being made by caregivers. Doctors will be able to track a patient’s record from womb to tomb.

As the economy improves, people are more likely to move from region to region for business, jobs or for pleasure. The National EMR will ensure that a mobile population has continuity in their healthcare. A patient entrusting his care to a new facility, will be sure that his new doctors can start off exactly from where the care from previous providers stopped.

Additionally, availability of executable clinical decision support system that is constantly updated with the latest evidence-based knowledge will ensure that the patients receive care that is in keeping with the best practices, ushering in an era of evidence-based, standardized high-quality care.

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