Telemedicine

National Policies, Strategies and

Guidelines for Implementation
Dr. Navneet Kumar Dhamija
Deputy Commissioner ( Training & Telemedicine)
Ministry of Health & Family Welfare
( Government of India )

DCTelemed.MoHFW@gmail.com, DCTrg.MoHFW@gmail.com
 Introduction
ICT adoption in health in India dates back to late
nineties in the form of indigenous technology
development for HMIS & Telemedicine
Deployment followed in due course
First policy initiative taken up during 11th Five Year
Plan (2006-12) followed by 12th Plan (2012- 2017)
Several Green Field projects in place and several
in different stages of Development
System adoption of ICT in progress
 National Policies on e-Health
including Telemedicine
National Steering Committee on Telemedicine under constituted (2005)

Budget Head by Planning Commission for e-Health including Telemedicine

11th Five Year Plan (2006-2012)

National Standards on Telemedicine 2003
http://www.telemed.esanjeevani.in/Telemedicine/Report.pdf

Draft National Standards of EMR/EHR (2010-2013) on Public Domain

http://mohfw.nic.in/WriteReadData/l892s/EMR%20Standards-
v5%20Apr%202013-57137745.pdf

National Rural Telemedicine Network (2007)

http://www.cghealth.nic.in/ehealth/Guidelines/National%20Rural%20Telemedicin
e%20Network%20for%20India-%20MoHFW.doc.
Health Education Content Delivery, Skill Enhancement and Healthcare Outreach
Services Project through high speed fiber back bone NKN (NMCN Project)
0http://www.nmcn.in
 National Rural Telemedicine Network

Design, development and implementation of

Low cost rural telemedicine infrastructure

Village Tele-ambulance System and rural emergency healthcare

services / Trauma care module

Rural Health Knowledge Resource through web portal and

e-CME module

Technology platform for harvest, compilation, storage

(Data Base) at Regional District Hub and Central Data Center

at MOH & FW, archive and distribution across network

www.mohfw.nic.in/National%20Rural%20Telemedicine%20Network%20for%20India-...
 Mother and Child Tracking System (MCTS)
Initiative of Ministry Health & Launch of MCTS
Family Welfare by Honble Union Minister
Launched in the year 2010 for Health & FW

To ensure tracking of every

pregnant woman and child in
the country for healthcare
delivery services so as to bring
down maternal and infant
mortality
Registered more that 10 mn
pregnant women and 5 mn
children, already
MCTS is monitored on a daily
http://nrhm-mcts.nic.in/MCH/
basis
A State Government Initiative : e-Mamta

Initiated by Gujarat State http://e-mamta.gujarat.gov.in/

Government

It is a management tool to
track the health service
delivery at the individual level

The system aims to help the

service provider (health
worker or Doctor) by
categorizing various health
services
Govt. of India Strategy for ICT applications in Health
during 12th Five Year Plan (2012-2017)

Access to CME and skill up-gradation

programmes, as well as back-up support on
Telemedicine
Deployment of Countrywide Hospital
Management Information System (HMIS)
The use of ICT in health education, public
health status analysis and expansion of health
related research
All District hospitals linked by telemedicine
channels to leading tertiary care centres
m-Health, the use of mobile phones to speed
up transmission

http://planningcommission.nic.in/aboutus/committee/strgrp12/str_health0203.pdf
 National Telemedicine Projects
National Medical College Network over National
Knowledge Network Fiber Backbone

http://www.nrct.in/nmcn/

Rural Telemedicine Network over National Optic

Fiber Network
http://iii.gov.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=397&Itemid=265

National Cancer Network ( Onco-Net)

http://onconet.nic.in/

National Tele-ophthalmology Network

http://meghealth.nic.in/tenders/Teleophthalmology_guidelines_2012.pdf
National Knowledge Network (NKN)

http://www.nic.in/nkn
 National Medical College Network (NMCN)
Scalable , Hierarchal, Secured IPv6 compatible Network Riding over NKN

01 National Resource Center

05 Regional Resource Centers

35 Medical Colleges in Phase - I

10
 To Summarize .
Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Govt. of India
has been promoting and financing ICT adoption in
health systems
Several states have been funded under NRHM for
developing HMIS, MCTS and Telemedicine
MOHFW, Govt. of India is implementing projects
in Diseases Surveillance, Mother & Child Tracking
System, NCDs (Ophthalmology, Cancer etc.), HRH
(Education and Skill development through NMCN)
 To Summarize .
Planning Commission developed strategy and policy for
HMIS, m-Health, Telemedicine, IDSP, File Tracking
System,, e-Governance to improve health systems
Implementation Guidelines have been defined for each
projects in consultation with Technical Committees
Govt. of India is providing NKN with high speed bandwidth
connectivity to all educational institutions in the country
including Medical Colleges, provided State Wide Area
Network with connectivity from State to block level and
now providing national Optical Fibre Network with high
speed bandwidth connectivity from block to village level
MoHFW shall leverage these Initiatives for NMCN,
National Rural Telemedicine Network, m-Health,
Telemedicine on wheels
Thank You