Sindhu Jha
NEW DELHI: Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Bharati Pravin Pawar said through a common digital framework, India aimed to create and curate digital public goods, enhance access to these tools by nations across the world and promote standards for interoperability, data privacy, and data security.
The minister was addressing the Digital Health Summit 2023 organised by Confederate of Indian Industry (CII) and cobranded with Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, at Goa recently.
The theme of the event was ‘Building One Health together – Improving Health equity’, with the objective of bringing together policy makers, industry leaders, and global healthcare experts and thought leaders to deliberate upon key issues confronting the digital health space. Pawar said this event aligns with the India’s G20 Health Working Group agenda on Digital Health Innovations and solutions to aid Universal Health Coverage and improve healthcare service delivery towards One Earth, One Family, One Future.
Highlighting the importance of digital heath innovations, she mentioned that digital innovations are powering game changers in exponential medicine, including 3D printing, point-of-care diagnostics, robots, bioinformatics, genomics, and is emerging as an enabler and equaliser.
“Emerging technologies like AI, the internet of things (IoT), Blockchain, 3-D printing in medical device manufacturing, etc. can help create a more holistic health ecosystem that improves health outcomes”, said the minister.
