Digital Healthcare in India : A way Forward

Overview

This Policy Brief sheds light on the optimum and ethical use of technology solutions for greater access to healthcare. In this regard, it assesses the key challenges, such as constraints to access and adoption of digital healthcare solutions, privacy and data protection issues concerning health data along with barriers to achieve integration and interoperability amongst various actors in healthcare ecosystem. For addressing these challenges the brief gives recommendations to increase awareness and capacitating medical practitioners to adopt digital healthcare solutions; to establish appropriate laws for privacy and data protection with regards to health data; and to make the interoperability and integration mechanisms for collection of health data more inclusive.