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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Standards-Based Approach

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As mentioned earlier, it is an uphill task to get organizations to agree to and follow data standards once they have deployed an EMR of their own or from a private company. Without interoperability, data collected in one site may remain unusable by other hospitals or researchers. At present the US is going through a program of trying to coax everyone to adopt interoperability standards and is discovering just how difficult such an effort is. India can avoid such barriers if it quickly makes available a standards-compliant EMR for everyone before several independent systems gain enough dominance in the field to be able to impede standards. With a standards-based approach, data from any doctor, hospital or region can be treated as part of the same dataset without having to worry about incompatibility, or loss of meaning.

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