Context: The recently released draft on National Digital Health Mission (NDHM) could pose technological and logistical challenges besides leading to minefields of ethical issues.
Features of the NDHM Draft:
Advantages of Digital Technologies: for overcoming inefficiencies, ensuring better utilization of available resources, delivering certain services and follow up for faster data collection.
Issues with the NDHM
Way Forward:
Conclusion: Digital technology could help improve the functioning of health systems, but digital health can’t be a panacea for a bad public health system.