IITG, central, state bodies join hands to improve health sector in Northeast

The institute aims to develop a digital highway for the stakeholders of the healthcare ecosystem by ensuring accessibility, affordability, inclusivity and interoperability.

The Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG) has collaborated with central and state authorities to improve the health sector of Northeast region. The institute aims to develop a digital highway for the stakeholders of the healthcare ecosystem by ensuring accessibility, affordability, inclusivity and interoperability.  

First Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission workshop

According to a statement issued by IIT Guwahati, it is participating in multiple initiatives to contribute to improving the health sector in the Northeast region.  IIT Guwahati has recently hosted the first Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) workshop with other north-eastern states to understand the challenges faced by the states and support them to prepare a future roadmap.  

The state mission directors and their representatives from Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Tripura and Sikkim participated in the workshop and showcased their way forward and support required from the National Health Authority (NHA), Government of India, the statement read. 

Proposed by the Mission Steering Group of ABDM, the National Health Authority is planning to conduct such regional workshops throughout the country to clarify various myths about ABDM and the challenges of ABDM adoption, it added. In order to build the capacities of the state for enhanced adoption of ABDM, the National Health Authority has also organised a training of master trainers at the state level in collaboration with IIT Guwahati. Recently, a batch of 34 participants from Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Tripura and Sikkim participated in this programme organised by the Jyoti and Bhupat Mehta School of Health Sciences and Technology at IIT Guwahati. 

Professor TG Sitharam, Director, IIT Guwahati, encouraged wider collaboration between the NHA and newly established multidisciplinary schools of IIT Guwahati on Health Sciences and Technology and Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. 

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