The Impact of Digital Health Initiatives on Healthcare Delivery in India
Digital health efforts toward improving service quality, accessibility, and efficiency are changing India’s healthcare delivery system dramatically. Providing quality healthcare in such countries is quite difficult, with more than 1.4 billion people in the territory. However, especially in disadvantaged and rural areas, emerging digital technologies seem to offer creative avenues for narrowing service delivery gaps. Evolution of Digital Health in India The Digital India campaign, initiated in 2015 with the vision of using technology to better public services, marked the starting point of India’s journey toward digital health. It paved a way for projects such as Ayushman Bharat Digital Misson (ABDM) and National Digital Health Mission (NDHM). Such programs aim to have a much more holistic digital health ecosystem that enables citizens through the use of electronic health records and unique health identifiers. ABDM was launched in 2020 and has efficiently streamlined the delivery o...