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Topic: National Unified Health Interface
Kumar Satyam (Aug 11 2021 at 15:09):
Posting to zulip on @Grahame Grieve recommendation .
Good morning !
India's National Digital health mission has released a draft consultation paper on nationwide "Unified Health Interface" . The paper seeks public consultation and suggestions on how best to implement the UHI. Digital health in India is a clean slate, not much legacy . It's a chance to propose a truly open & interoperable approach.
I am reaching out to you to seek your help & guidance on what FHIR paradigm would be a good fit to develop UHI. Also other recommendations based on your judgement.
Last date to submit the proposal is 23rd August 2021.
Following is an excerpt from the UHI document accessible here https://ndhm.gov.in/publication/consultationpapers . Chapter 5 explains the components of proposed UHI.
UHI Service Components :
1) UHI has a service discovery component which enables something like below
Discover a doctor for teleconsultation: The user can search for, say, an eye specialist in retinal diseases near me who speaks Hindi and is available tomorrow. The UHI gateway sends this request to all HSPs registered for teleconsultation service. Interested HSPs respond with the details of their doctor, consultation fee expected, payment methods and doctor availability to the UHI gateway.
2) Service booking
3) Service fulfillment
4) Financial settlement
5) post fulfilment.
Example of services that can be enabled through UHI.
● Booking OPD appointments at hospitals / clinics
● Booking Tele-Consultation
● Discovering availability of critical care beds
● Discovery of lab and diagnostic services
● Booking of home visits for lab sample collections
● Booking an ambulance
● Discovery of nearby pharmacie .
Looking forward to your comments.
Notification Bot (Aug 11 2021 at 15:55):
This topic was moved here from #india > National Unified Health Interface by Lloyd McKenzie
Lloyd McKenzie (Aug 11 2021 at 15:56):
Moved here at @Kumar Satyam's request - he's interested in international opinions about the proposed architecture.
Elliot Silver (Aug 11 2021 at 16:59):
Is there a link to or description of the proposed architecture?
Kumar Satyam (Aug 11 2021 at 17:01):
Here is the link. https://ndhm.gov.in/publication/consultationpapers
The first document .
Kumar Satyam (Aug 11 2021 at 17:06):
Thanks @Lloyd McKenzie .
Looking for the community's input on how best fhir can help implement the framework . Also look to hear what are potential downsides of the proposed Design.
Brendan Keeler (Aug 11 2021 at 17:59):
Aadhaar is amazing
Venu Gopal (Aug 11 2021 at 19:29):
Just if it helps set the context, most out patient visits are self pay in India. The proposed UHID and HPID are going to be OIDC
Raheel Sayeed (Sep 29 2021 at 19:13):
I thought FHIR is already implied? -> https://www.nrces.in/ndhm/fhir/r4/index.html
Chandrakant Bhoslay (Jan 16 2022 at 02:10):
https://github.com/dhp-project
Elliot Silver (Jan 16 2022 at 02:13):
You should probably talk with the #openehr or #openhie groups. This seems like something up their alley. @Carl Leitner
Venu Gopal (Jan 16 2022 at 02:31):
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Josh Mandel (Jan 16 2022 at 18:14):
I'm not sure if https://pn.ispirt.in/tag/health-stack/ is up to date, but I think the asynchronous consent driven sharing architecture is really interesting; I'd love to see this thinking grafted onto standards (e.g., GNAP, UMA).
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