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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Knowledge-Based System – Separation of Knowledge from Software

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One reason the doctors and other healthcare professionals do not like computer systems is because most systems are designed as "one size fits all". Despite configuration options available, the systems seem alien to them, not at all addressing their specific needs, preferences and workflows.

To make healthcare information systems more attractive to the doctors, we must create them in a manner in which the doctors can take control of their functionality without having to depend upon system specialists or software programmers.

Further, the healthcare professionals rarely participate in open source projects because they lack of expertise in software engineering and programming. On the other hand, the software developers are limited by their difficulty in understanding the intricacies of medical sciences, workflows and the needs of institutions. A larger participation from both these groups can be ensured if the system is designed to be mostly knowledge driven. This can be achieved by developing the software layer as the base, atop which the knowledge layer exists, and controls much of the logic of the system. The aim of the software development project then is only to deliver tools that the knowledge authors (medical experts) can use to create the logic and the features of the system, as they deem fit for their own needs.

This approach will not just ensure early participation by the healthcare personnel, it will also lead to continued development of the system, evolving with the needs of the healthcare sector.

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