Need For A Robust ABDM Healthcare Network Enabling Cancer Care Without Walls By Manish Sharma @Msharmas
The idea of expecting a doctor/physician to be responsible for keeping a patient’s health records up to date throughout his/her care journey, is obviously not preferred these days. Neither is the practice scalable nor does it allow adoption and application of recent and new technologies.
In healthcare, information about a patient/citizen is created from the moment the citizen interacts with a hospital, clinical, etc or avails of a service online. Every subsequent activity adds recency, relevancy, context of care linkage to the citizen information in that hospital’s information system. The information is filled in by any hospital employee who encounters a patient, i.e., the hospital’s front desk staff/registration person, nurse, doctor, surgeon, anesthetist, pharmacist, pathologist, radiologist, radiation oncologist, surgical oncologist, cardiologist, and many more clinicians across the continuum of care of the citizens’ journey in that facility.
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