Good Practices: e-Governance in Healthcare

Information & Communication Technology (ICT) can improve the delivery of healthcare services and management of the public health system. Ministry of Health and Family Welfare is therefore promoting e-Health or Digital Health i.e. use of Information & Communication Technology in the direction of “reaching services to citizens” and “citizen empowerment through information dissemination” to bring about significant improvements in the public healthcare delivery. To improve efficiency in health care delivery, extend health care to rural areas and provide better quality at low-cost certain eHealth initiatives using ICT were undertaken by MOHFW across the country. Here, the ‘Best Practices’ of e-Governance in the Healthcare sector has been discussed.