'Tablet' based health data record system launched in C'garh

Union Health Minister J P Nadda today inaugurated Chhattisgarh government's 'tablet' (computer-tablet) based health monitoring system here and said it would be implemented across the country.
The 'tablets' would maintain health record provided by the health department pertaining to women and children, an official release issued here said.
Nadda, praising the use of technological advancement in the health space, said the system would be used as a model for all states in the country.
Launched as a pilot project under National Urban Health Mission, the minister on the occasion distributed the tablets to ANM (Auxiliary nurse midwife) workers.
It an ambitious project in terms of collecting and storing health records and the state government's step is very much in tandem with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's initiatives to implement digital India and e-governance projects, Nadda said.

"There are conventional ways of collecting data but this 'tablet' will make the process of data collection fast and will enable the health directorate to monitor the records more efficiently. It will also prove to be effective as information of entire family could be gathered which will let the government make better health plans for beneficiaries," he said.

Based on the feedback and success, it would be implemented in other states as well, he said.
Centre has recently launched 'Kilkari Yojna' in which mothers are given information of vaccinations and child care of their new-born through an audio medium. And this 'tablet' project can be infused with the 'kilkari Yojna' to make it more effective, he said.

In the first round, 380 ANM workers will be given the tablets.
Principal Secretary, health department Alok Shukla said that NIC (National informatics centre) has developed the software.
There would be a register maintained in the 'tablet' in which health related data of entire family would be uploaded which will be then sent to the server, located at the health directorate office, based on which monitoring would be done, Shukla added.