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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Lack and Unavailability of Medical Records

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It is common in India for a patient to arrive at a doctor’s doorstep with no medical records from their past. Either the record is kept in a paper-based system with other providers, or no record is kept at all. Patient may only be vaguely aware of the diagnoses, and often has no idea of the drugs prescribed in the past. Consequently, not just the quality of care suffers, the costs go up significantly too.

A record of healthcare over a period is critical for patients with chronic health problems, especially the non-communicable diseases (NCDs), the burden of which has now assumed alarming proportions. It is estimated that NCDs constitute one-third of all conditions encountered (). This burden is expected to increase considerably as a larger proportion of the population is expected to live longer, and as the incidence of communicable diseases continues to fall.

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