GUWAHATI: During an online event on Sunday the National Health Mission, Assam in collaboration with Piramal Swasthya and CISCO launched a pilot project named "Niramay" to demonstrate the integration of digital health technology to strengthen the public health care delivery in Assam, stated a press release.
The initiative is aimed at leveraging the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission roll out in the State in line with the envisaged national guidelines to develop digital backbone on transforming heaIth care delivery in the State and nation. This initiative is based on Piramal Swasthya's indigenous integrated health technology platform 'AMRIT'.
Going forward, this demonstration of the technology at the Health and Wellness Centre, Block Primary Health Centre and District Hospital levels seeks to facilitate delivery of health and health-related services including medical care, health data and information through digital technology and telemedicine service.
Speaking at the event, Anurag Goel, Principal Secretary to the Government of Assam, Department of Health and Family Welfare said;
"Initiative 'Niramay' is a step towards strengthening public health delivery in the State of Assam by realizing the Prime Minister's vision of National Digital Health Mission. This project will work towards strengthening digital infrastructure to enable telemedicine interactions, rapid diagnostics, patient's health records and data collection at the grass-root level in three aspirational districts in Assam. We congratulate Cisco and Piramal Swasthya for starting this pilot project in Assam."
Lakshmanan S, Managing Director of NHM, Assam said, "The recent experiences from the pandemic have shown the importance of having a robust Public Health Delivery System. Digitalization as well as public private partnerships will play a significant role towards this. NHM Assam, CISCO and Piramal Swasthya's collaborative digital health initiative 'Niramay' in Baksa, Barpeta, and Darrang is a step towards it. 'Niramay' will enable continuum of care and accessibility of real-time data to the relevant stakeholders for informed decision making".
Pomi Baruah, Deputy Secretary to Government of Assam, Department of Health and Family Welfare and OSD, NHM, Assam said:
"Digital interventions in public health services is the next step to ensure better delivery and decision making. 'Niramay' as a project adds to it. It will help in improving services delivery, robust data-driven governance and empowering the frontline health workers in the Baksa, Barpeta and Darrang districts in Assam."
'Niramay' will provide specialist consultation, early diagnosis of NCDs and high-risk pregnancy cases, improve the quality of health data.
Harish Krishnan, Managing Director & Chief Policy Officer, CISCO Systems, India & SAARC said, "CISCO is committed to support initiatives and innovators who use technology to solve some of our greatest challenges, such as hunger, economic inequality, and lack of access to education or healthcare; Through Project Niramay, we aim to strengthen the heaIth system at the grassroots level and improve the quality of health care as well as the experience of healthcare delivery by establishing a continuum of care."
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