Ministry of AYUSH has conceptualized AYUSH GRID Project for digitising AYUSH healthcare delivery at all levels.
The project is the proposed IT backbone for the entire AYUSH sector covering the healthcare systems Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, Sowa Rigpa and Homoeopathy. AYUSH Grid is envisaged as an omnibus digital eco- system that would lead to all round development of the AYUSH sector in fields of healthcare delivery at all levels, research, education, schemes and various health programs.
The proposal is to develop a network of people, knowledge and technology for radical, sustainable and wholesome transformation of AYUSH sector, and play a pivotal role in taking care of holistic health care needs (i.e. curative, preventive and promotive health) and socio- economic wellbeing of Indian citizens and further extending the benefits to entire world population.
Further it will create an organic and dynamic information and communication technology (ICT) powered network interconnecting all streams of AYUSH in their key functional areas viz. health care delivery, capacity building, research & development, AYUSH drug regulation and education. This will be beneficial for all stakeholders of AYUSH and also helpful for effective governance. Strategies for development will be in sync with the national and international policies and health care needs.
The main components of AYUSH GRID Project are as under:
- Health Services
- Education
- Research
- Central Sector and Centrally Sponsored Schemes
- Training
- Citizen Centric Services
- Drug Licencing Portal
- Media Outreach
Health is a state subject and the concerned state Government adopt various measures to improve the Government health delivery system, including AYUSH Systems of Healthcare. At the Central level, the Ministry of AYUSH also takes various initiatives to achieve this goal, mainly through interventions in areas like AYUSH education, AYUSH Research, establishing and running national level institutes, setting guidelines for drug regulation, setting benchmarks for AYUSH digitisation and forgoing international collaboration in relevant activities. Further, Ministry of AYUSH has launched Pilot Project of AYUSH Health Management Information System (A-HMIS) on 05.11.2018. As on today, 82 health facilities (NI’s and RC’s) under the Ministry are using available modules of A-HMIS. The Ministry has also launched training programmes in A-HMIS. An IT Course for AYUSH Professionals for capacity building of AYUSH Doctors in use of Digital Technologies in Healthcare for improvement of healthcare delivery system in AYUSH has been initiated with the support of C-DAC, Pune.
This information was given by the Minister of State (Independent Charge) for AYUSH, Shri Shripad Yesso Naik in written reply to a question in Lok Sabha on Friday.
