Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission–Enabling digital health to leapfrog in India T he insightful keynote address by Dr RS Sharma, CEO, National Health Authority set the context for the sessions at Radiology & Imaging Conclave 2021. He gave an overview of Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) and explained about its building blocks. Talking about Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission, Dr Sharma said, “The whole purpose of this mission is to ensure as to how we can leverage the information & communication technologies to deliver quality, accessible and ubiquitous health services.” Stressing on some statistics on the scale of digitisation, he said, “Today we have 1.8 billion mobile connections, 8 billion internet connections and about 600 billion smart phones in the country. India has created a conducive environment for deployment of digitalisation, with good
digital infrastructure and artefacts, for e.g, Aadhaar – a digital identity system and UPIs including others. These artefacts are a very good ground for initiating any digital mission in any sector. Health is just a starting sector. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated adoption and implementation of digital services across sectors, including healthcare.” Explaining about the building blocks of ABDM, Dr Sharma added, “In health space, we are building certain building blocks of this digital mission. One of the building block is registry of hospi-
tals. Another one is registry of health profession i.e Health Professional Registry (HPR) which will essentially tell us as to which are the designated health professionals in every system. Most importantly, we are also building a Personal Health Repository of a person where one can access and share his/her digital health records via digital consent artifact that we are building which will be linked to the personal health ID of a person. With this health ID, the concerned person will have a horizontal view of all his health records. We will have the health record providers,
Asmarter way forward A fter a brief background on the Rochester, NewYorkbased Carestream Corporation which was incorporated in 2007, Edwin Pinto, XRS Business Manager-India Cluster, Carestream Health India gave an overview of the company’s product range. While the company is headquartered out of Mumbai in India, there are regional teams across the country focused on providing technology innovations that can make customer workload easier and faster so that radiologists can spend more time with patients. Pinto then touched on the highlights of the product range. CR systems are used across the hospitals, imaging centers and private practices as they are flexible, facilitating
better patient care and productivity when moving from film imaging, with better reliability and service. Carestream’s CR System category includes floor mounted DIRECTVIEW Classic CR which can perform all the radiology examinations including mammography and examination for intensive & emergency care. It is very compact and fast. From Classic point of view, all the company’s cassettes are rigid in nature and
are not in contact with the system while scanning to get the final image on the monitor. One of the most recent CR System that Carestream launched is Vita Flex which was introduced four years back. It is one of the smallest and compact CR that is available in the market. It comes with two different speed options (45/60 PPH) and can be positioned for horizontal and vertical feeds. It can be easily installed and serviced by the
users and consent managers. These are some of the components which have already been built.” “Our honorable Prime Minister launched this pilot project on August 15, 2020 and in the last one year of this pilot phase, we have perfected all these technologies. They are built, tried and piloted. We are now constructing and filling these registries with data so that people can start using it. This entire system will be a win-win for everybody including the patients, doctors, labs and service providers.” Dr Sharma also spoke about the recently announced e-rupee scheme which is a purpose-specific and person-specific voucher where government gives lot of subsidies. “In line with this, we are also working on providing a voucher through which they will be able to directly pay to the provider instead of raising bills.
We provide healthcare to 40 per cent of India’s bottom income population. They use hospitilisation and other kind of laboratories services. Any technology should be made for the people and people for not made for the technology. We are building digital platforms for health which are scalable, interoperable and patient-centric.” Appreciating the efforts of Express Healthcare to organise Radiology and Imaging Conclave 2021 he concluded by requesting the support of the sector for ABDM saying, “The broad philosophy of Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission is based on the principles of inclusiveness and ensuring that it is peoplecentric. I want to use this opportunity to call upon all the healthcare professionals to come together and build this platform so that we can provide ubiquitous, affordable and quality healthcare to our people.”
end user. One of the most unique features of this CR System is its compact footprint. It can be easily used in extreme conditions like mobile applications, veterinary, military or disaster recovery applications. CARESTREAM Image Suite Software: Used across all Carestream products, this platform works perfectly through the entire chain, starting from scheduling to acquiring to post-processing, diagnosing and finally printing the report. FOCUS 35 C Detector: It was launched in 2019. It is a CSI detector so it reduces the doses. Its wireless feature ensures that there is no hazard while the technologist is moving to the X-ray room. DRX Plus Detectors: It comes with an auto-beam de-
tect and can be directly integrated with any of the existing X-ray system. It has superior image quality with 135 micro resolutions. It can be shared within multiple detectors. DRX Plus 35C Detector: It comes in smaller format for fast, easy positioning in pediatric trays. It is ideal for orthopedic tabletop imaging. DRX Evolution Plus: It is customisable and DR solution designed to meet specific budget, room and workflow needs. It is designed for future advanced applications. DRYVIEW Printers: Under this category, Carestream has DRYVIEW 6950, DRYVIEW 5950 and DRYVIEW 5700. Along with this, the company also has DRYVIEW Laser Imaging Films which comes in five different sizes.
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