Interview – Naveen Jain, Mission Director – National Health Mission, Special Secretary – Medical, Health & Family Welfare, Government of Rajasthan

• 26-03-2015 11:12:51
• Health

Sometimes, thinking like a common man gives an innovation. Rajasthan is the largest state now with 3.42 lakh sq km of area, with a population of seven crore residing in it. We are having over 17,000 institutions, including 14,000 sub centres with around 100 district hospitals and subregional hospitals. We are the State with very high Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) and Infant Mortality Rate (IMR), but a bad Total Fertility Rate (TFR).

Expectations from e-governance in healthcare includes more use of IT by doctors and make their accounts on the National Health Mission expenditure.

Around 5-6 years back, the IT solutions was implemented by the Government of India. In government sector, development of software is only 10 percent. It takes care of only 10 percent of your problem. 80 percent, it is implementation strategy for how people will take and sustain it. The challenge is to fund the activities later on.

In last ten years, we saw various e-governance initiatives taken by various governments. Currently, we have implemented some of the initiatives. These include AshaSoft, HMIS, e-subalaxmi, SNA database/website and e-Aushadhi for free medicine amongst others.

We are also making a software called e-upkaran, and in our budget it has been announced that we will implement it. We have prepared the software and we are ready to share it with the Government of India too.