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National Health Portal and Relevance to Healthcare for All

Prof. Suptendra Nath Sarbadhikari, MBBS, PhD

Project Director, Centre for Health Informatics of the National Health Portal Member-Secretary, SCNHP

NIHFW, Munirka, New Delhi 110 067 supten@gmail.com

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BackgroundThe Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has set up the National Health Portal (NHP) in pursuance to the decision of the National Knowledge Commission (NKC): •To provide healthcare related information, and,•To serve as a single point of access for consolidated health information. The National Institute of Health and Family Welfare (NIHFW) has established Centre for Health Informatics (CHI) to be the secretariat for the NHP.

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ObjectivesGOALGateway to authentic health information for all.

VISIONThe National Health Portal aims to make this as a single point access for authenticated health information for citizens, students, healthcare professionals and researchers.

MISSIONThe National Health Portal will achieve the above vision by collecting, verifying and disseminating health and health care delivery services related information for all citizens of India.

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Interactive Features General Forum for general discussions among common

persons, patients, care givers and healthcare professionals: http://www.nhp.gov.in/forum/14

Professional Forum for discussion among health care professionals: http://www.nhp.gov.in/forum/15

Help Desk for Implementation of EHR Standards: http://www.nhp.gov.in/electronic-health-record-standards

Forum for discussing implementation of EHR: http://www.nhp.gov.in/forum/18

Feedback on the content on NHP: http://www.nhp.gov.in/contact

Social Media – Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NHPINDIA

Social Media – Twitter: https://twitter.com/NHP_INDIA also with hashtag #nhportal

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Relation with other ongoing activities of MoHFW

The NeHA (National eHealth Authority) of India is being set up to monitor all eHealth activities and the NHP will be proposed to be the Secretariat for the same.

The MMP (Health) proposes a Citizen’s Portal that can be built upon the NHP which will form its informational base.

MoHFW has become a country member of IHTSDO that develops and distributes the SNOMED-CT medical vocabulary standards. It requires a NRC for local adoption and translation. NeHA / NHP can become the Indian NRC for SNOMED-CT.

NHM has an ambitious National Helpline program of 104 that has been so far adopted by only 7 states. NHP can coordinate to make it a central helpdesk that will appropriately interact with and route to the relevant states for the required services.

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