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Information Bureau
Government of India
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
29-March-2016 20:10 IST
Shri J P Nadda launches GIS-enabled HMIS application, self-printing of e-CGHS Card
“A significant steps towards Digital India and for easy access of health services to the common man”: Shri J P Nadda
Shri J P Nadda, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare launched two major Digital initiatives to provide easy access to health services to the public: GIS-enabled HMIS application and the self-printing of e-CGHS cards, here today. Launching these initiatives of the Health Ministry, the Union Minister stated that the Health Ministry remains committed to strengthening public health systems and providing user-friendly health services in the country. He further stated that that this will provide a tremendous opportunity to further strengthen and enhance the reach of key interventions.
Terming these as significant and forward looking steps contributing to Digital
India, Shri J P Nadda said: “The initiative will not only monitor the
performance and quality of the health services being provided under the NHM,
but will also provide effective healthcare to the rural population throughout
the country”. The GIS-enabled HMIS services will provide comprehensive data on
a GIS platform on 1.6 lakh Government Health facilities spread across the
country. The project has been developed with the objective of enabling the
effective usage of the HMIS application, enhancing analytical capabilities of
States/UTs and providing a geographical display of HMIS data using GIS. The application
also has scope of incorporating map layers of roads and water bodies which will
provide comprehensive information regarding health facilities and disease
vulnerable areas of the country. At present, the application is available in
login domain of HMIS portal. It is planned to put it in public domain in near
future. Moreover, the mapping provides data only on public health facilities
presently, which shall soon be expanded to cover private facilities also, the
Union Minister informed.
Health Management Information System (HMIS) is a web-based monitoring system
that has been put in place by Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MoHFW)
to monitor its health programmes and provide key inputs for policy formulation
and interventions. It was launched during October, 2008 with uploading of
district consolidated figures. To make HMIS more robust and effective and in
order to facilitate local level monitoring, “facility based reporting” was
initiated since April, 2011. At present, 1.94 lakh health facilities (across
all States/UTs) are uploading facility wise data on monthly basis on HMIS web
portal. Data are presently being made available to various stakeholders in the
form of standard & customized reports, factsheets, score- cards etc. HMIS
data are widely used by the Ministry and States for policy planning, monitoring
and supervision purpose.
The Union Health Minister, while launching the self-printing of the E-CGHS
card, stated that this will provide ease and access to all those beneficiaries
such as the pensioners who may find it difficult to go to the CGHS centres for
renewal, and in the event of loss/misplacement of the card. As this can be
printed from any location once the process of application based on authentic
documents has been approved, this enables easy reprinting by the beneficiary
himself/herself. The beneficiary can access this facility by visiting the CGHS
portal at cghs.nic.in where simple steps for this have been
enumerated.
Also present at the meeting were Shri B P Sharma, Secretary (HFW), and senior
officers of the Health Ministry.
