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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Last updated 6 years ago

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The amazing spread of mobile telephony in India, with nearly 80% web traffic being consumed by mobile devices has opened many wonderful opportunities for India, including in health. Therefore, it makes immense sense to build a current day EMR to be mHealth (mobile health) centric. A mHealth based EMR would not only leapfrog the enterprise EMR systems, it would also avoid a pure web-based approach, focusing more on the smaller devices for its frontend.

A recent report by PwC and the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) states that mHealth can be crucial in making healthcare accessible in India and potentially save up to $1b annually. Not only are mHealth solutions ideal for India, there is a high level of interest in Indians for such solutions, as gleaned from internet searches by them, the report further states.

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