The More I Thought About This The More Absurd It Seemed To Become!

This appeared last week via a pretty obscure news scan!Tamil Nadu keen on Australian model for beefing up digital healthcare platform, looks for partnershipsWhile Tamil Nadu has a robust healthcare service, the government feels that the state ’s healthcare is more of department-centric and cost -specificWritten bySajan C KumarUpdated: September 30, 2022 4:48:19 pmThe state ' s National Health Mission is on the mission to develop an outcome-based approach to bring more clarity on the money spent on healthcare.To strengthen its digital healthcare platform, the Tamil Nadu government is looking at the Australian model of solutions by which the land Down Under has managed to cover 90% of its population under a digital record system. The state plans to forge partnerships with Australia ’s Digital Health Agency on various aspects pertaining to the digitisation of the healthcare records.While Tamil Nadu has a robust healthcare service, the government feels that the state ’s healthcare is more of department-centric and cost -specific. According to the government, there is a need to shift to beneficiary-centric approach for which data is important. Given the realisation that due to lack of data there is a limitation to analyse the efficiency and utilisation of the s ervices and hence plans to digitise the entire healthcare platform of the state.The state government representatives have recently met a high-level Australian Digital Health delegates who are currently in India as a p...
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