ITIH India February 15, 2007
Posted by Pallav Sharda in : Governmental, Healthcare, Technology , trackbackITIH stands for ‘IT Infrastructure for Health’. It is a recommendation report regarding the need, issues and state of Healthcare IT Infrastructure in India. ITIH was published by The Department of Information Technology (DIT) under the Ministry of Communications and IT (MOC).
The report proposes some standards for Telemedicine systems in India and addresses information needs of different stakeholders in the healthcare sector. It seems like a first step towards governmental action in the healthcare IT domain.
I’m curious as to why the immediate focus is on Telemedicine, even in these initial stages of healthcare IT discussion. Maybe the think-tanks in India see Telemedicine as the most applicable area. Or maybe it just sounds cool. But the truth is that there are so many other things with Medical Informatics that need to be seeded and reviewed at this early stage. Basic electronic medical record, master patient index, eprescribing are some of the more established (and researched) flavors of IT deployment in healthcare. Some of these are actually building blocks needed for Telemedicine concept to work.
DIT has also published another report recommending guidelines and standards for Telemedicine in India. Wonder why there is little talk about anything other than Telemedicine.
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