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 advent of Blockchain related technologies have provided a new modality of creating medical records for each patient that are longitudinal, spanning their entire life’s medical history and yet owned by the patient, with minimal risk of tampering or misuse. This will allow continuity of records, with minimal duplication of tests, or treatments. Any authenticated healthcare personnel will be able to access the past records of the patients, and so would other organizations like insurance companies and research institutions. Tools would be created to allow patient to permit accessing their data, circumscribed by a duration, or a healthcare episode.

Each encounter with a healthcare facility could then be recorded as a block in the chain, verified by the patients, other experts, or authorities and validated by peers. The chain itself would serve as the index, with the details of the encounters being stored in the cloud serving as the backend for the NEMRS, each block linked with an actual record in the database in cloud.

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