#Opensource Healthcare Community for #DigitalHealth #Ecosystem [OpenHealthCODE]

Center for Digital Health at IIT Jodhpur 'Center for Digital Health' at IIT Jodhpur has been announced in partnership with Libra Social Research Foundation. IIT Jodhpur will run Digital Health Masters courses in alliance with Libra Social Research Foundation. This work is required at war footing because the lack of cross-over skills between Healthcare and Technology is the biggest stumbling block in NDHB Digital Health Standards implementation. We have to be ready Lest another Pandemic hits us! IIT Jodhpur has joined the Librasocial OpenHDIS community to leverage opensource HMIS/EMR code released by LetsDoc under the Librasocial OpenHDIS Github project to build Digital Health products and solutions, and thereby contribute back to the Librasocial OpenHDIS Github project. Libra Social Research Foundation is setting up Digital Health Incubation unit in IIT Jodhpur Technology Innovation and Start-up Center [TISC]. IIT Jodhpur in association with Libra Social Research Foundation org...

The  OpenHealthCODE  Stamp of Confidence (SoC) for Digital Health Systems is a voluntary program. It is established by AHD to provide for a Stamp of Confidence for Digital Health Systems. Criteria for SoC are established as per as per NDHB Standards and related building blocks notified by Govt of India. The  SoC Program supports the availability of quality Digital Health systems for its encouraged and required use across the National Digital Health Ecosystem. The SoC Program is run as a third-party product conformity assessment scheme for Digital Health systems based on the principles of the NDHB, EHR and MDDS for Health and Meity Open Standards and Opensource policy. Download: Stamp of Confidence Stages and Criteria As a part of its Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator (SEA) program designed to guide the healthcare industry in adopting open and uniform digital health standards,  OpenHealthCODE  recently launched the Stamp of Confidence initiative that will recog...

Lab SIG - Interoperability Charter:  OpenHealthCODE  together with development sector partners and provider industry associations had convened the pan-India Provider Working Group [PWG] and published the PWG report in Q1 of 2021 ( http://openhealthcode.blogspot.com/2021/04/provider-working-group-final-report.html ). The Diagnostic Working Group was one of the 3 main Working Groups under PWG. The Diagnostic Working Group consultations clearly revealed that approaches to Laboratory Data Interoperability can be the first step in creating an open-source standards-based digital health assets for seeding India’s National Digital Health Ecosystem (NDHE). As a follow through on the Diagnostic Working Group proceedings referred above, Laboratory Special Interest Group (SIG) was constituted as a subset of the PWG’s Diagnostic Working Group, to continue work on the Laboratory Data Interoperability.  Interim Report: This is an interim report on the significant progress made by the La...

Lesson from the Covid19 Pandemic – Leveraging Telemedicine and Digital Health to offer 'Appropriate Care' in Rural India Download Here!   The Second Wave of Covid19, in a manner of speaking, was a ‘Baptism by fire’ for Public Health Governance in India. Besides streamlining of provisioning of material resources, one of the key lessons learnt in managing the crisis was clearly, that ‘Appropriate Care’ i.e. Triage was able to take care of about 80% of patients reporting Covid-like symptoms and allowing them to be treated with simple and minimal protocols, at home without overburdening Hospitals in the secondary and Tertiary care segment and thus ensuring better outcomes and better patient experience. Resources could remain available for suitable cases. Less could Indeed be more! Now that we see the disease making inroads into Rural India which is relatively poorly served in terms of first line of care, and anticipate larger numbers that need to be provided ‘Appropriate Care’ we n...

This document presents the design specifications for electronic claim  objects and associated standard processes for their exchange between  Payers and Providers, through a Health Claim Platform that was  recommended in the report “Common IT Infrastructure  for Health Insurance Claims management” by IRDA-NHA joint  working group.  The health claim platform is intended to improve current  claim processes, enforce transparency and facilitate on time provider  payments for Health insurance Claims in India. Usage of Standard  Electronic Claim related objects will facilitate auto adjudication of  claims by both Public and Private Health Insurance Payers with reduced  operational costs. eClaims Objects - Health Claims Platform Payer eObjects Specifications: eClaims Object, Claims Response etc. eDischarge Summary Object : Pick the eDischarge Object from Provider eObjects v2 Standard Value Sets for eClaims Objects Standard Value Sets for eD...

Digital Health 101 is a basic set of webinar recordings from AHD Academy.  Suitable for Doctors/Nurses/Clinicians, Public Health and Healthcare Managers, Government Administrators and Technologists interested in Digital Health. The Courses are spread across Basic, Specialist and Expert Levels.   It is a video based learning model and  It is free.   Disclaimer:   AHD Academy is a Library of Live Webinar Recordings from AHD on various Digital Health topics. It is opensource material meant for learning from experts at your own pace. This is Not an Academic Course material. Please do not confuse these webinar recordings with regular recognized courses run by universities/colleges. You may contact your College, University, Organization for  properly moderated  Lectures, Trainings, Courses  on Digital Health. Basic Course for Digital Health Enthusiasts: Suitable for Clinicians, Healthcare Managers, Govt Administrators and Technologists interested ...

Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator [SEA] OpenHealthCODE  is a a not for profit think tank working on NDHB Digital Health Standards for India. We run a Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator [SEA] for helping Indian HealthTech startups and vendors to implement Open Digital Health Standards that are applicable globally. #AtmaNirbharBharat #VocalForLocal SEA Silver Club Silver Club has implemented the Standards and achieved our  Stamp of Confidence . https://openhealthcode.blogspot.com/2021/07/stamp-of-confidence.html SEA implements the eObjects Interoperability framework. eObjects were first written by Prof Dennis Streveler and Dr Pankaj Gupta in a white paper in Nov 2018 that was published by Niti Aayog in the book  Health Systems for New India, Chapter 5 - Reimagining India's Digital Health Landscape Wiring the Indian Health Sector in Nov 2019. SEA Objectives SEA Cohort 1 SEA Cohort 2 In late October 2020, India's National Health Authority' Market ACCESS Program [MAP] put 1...

Since the start of the Millennium, India has been trying to overcome the problem of interoperability and fragmented healthcare delivery ecosystem across states, health policies and vertical health programs to deliver seamless or uninterrupted continuum of care. With the launch of the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojna (PMJAY), that covers & provides free healthcare to approximately 40 % of the Indian population, it has become critical to identify each patient uniquely. The criticality for unique identification of individuals got highlighted when India was hit by the COVID 19 pandemic – when patient tracking and relevant health information on comorbidities was not available for effectively and efficiently executing surveillance. States and government could only collect aggregated data in non-standard and an unstructured format via door to door screening, which was extremely inefficient and poorly suited for response planning and to effectively combat a pandemic of this size and scale. ...

The Public and Private Health System in India is struggling with multiplicity of information systems being used at central as well as at state level. Each of these systems is unable to exchange data and information with each other. To overcome similar challenges across ministries, the Ministry of Communication and Technologies initiated semantic standardization across various domains under Metadata and Data Standards (MDDS) project. The intent was to promote the growth of e-Governance within the country by establishing interoperability across e-Governance applications for seamless sharing of data and services. MDDS for health domain was created by adopting global standards in such a way that existing applications could be easily upgraded to the MDDS standards.  The exercise yielded approximately 1000 data elements. These data elements were expected to serve as the common minimum data elements for development of IT applications for various sub domains of health care. The need for th...

What is a Registry? A registry is an organized system or database that collects, stores uniformed data or information about an entity like patient, person , or facility etc and is kept updated at all times to act as “Single Source of Truth” for the entity in question. The data facilitated by the registry can be accessed as service by information technology applications or by the government for planning initiatives and governance. How a Registry is different from a Directory? A registry is an official record keeping database which not only identifies an entity uniquely but also proves its existence in the ecosystem in question. E.g.: ADHAAR- A person must be listed in AADHAAR registry to be able to verify his/her identification as an Indian Citizen with authentic demographic details. Directory on the other hand does not required to be an official or comprehensive, but mere a collection of data without uniquely identifying entities listed in it and do not serve as “single ...