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- Recently, the Delhi Cabinet gave a financial nod to its ambitious Health Information Management System (HIMS) Project.
About
- All the medical services will be brought under one platform, through the HIMS portal.
- The Delhi government will conduct surveys across the entire State to make sure every citizen can get their eHealth card made.
- The doctors will be able to see a patient’s medical history using the card and the patients will be able to make appointments from home.
- All citizens between 1 and 18 years would be issued a health card linked to their parent’s health card.
- All newborns (up to 1 year) would be linked to their mother’s health card.
Significance:
- It aims to give a boost to the healthcare infrastructure.
- It will help us know how many beds are vacant in a hospital, the status of medicine stocks and staff, the number of ventilators and any other information about the medical infrastructure.
Source: TH
