News How easy is it to buy mental health data of individuals? Hint: Not as hard as it should be A new research finds that it is relatively easy to buy personal data of people with mental health issues from data brokers. Sarvesh MathiFebruary 21, 2023
News What’s with the sudden boom in linking health records with ABHA accounts? The number of health records being linked to India's ABHA healthcare ID sees a sharp uptick. Is privacy being swept aside by the tide? Vallari SanzgiriFebruary 9, 2023
News U-WIN in Himachal Pradesh: India’s pilot project to digitise vaccination records gains ground U-WIN is modelled on the Covid-19 vaccination portal "CoWIN" and is being piloted in selected districts since January 2023 Sarasvati NTFebruary 8, 2023
News Practo Partners With Government To Help Develop India’s Health Stack A Unified Health Interface enables seeking online consultations on multiple platforms, verifying doctors, claiming insurance: NHA Akshit ChawlaJanuary 31, 2023
News India’s Health Stack: Plans for “Single Source Of Truth” Without strong digital rights, sensitive personal health data of Indians may be used for unintended purposes like profiling of individuals. Akshit ChawlaJanuary 30, 2023
News What’s the deal with Andhra Pradesh’s new family doctor system? Starting from March 1 this year, doctors will visit villages across Andhra Pradesh twice a month to “strengthen the public health system”. Vallari SanzgiriJanuary 30, 2023
News DigiLocker Improves Its Integration With Ayushman Bharat Health Records While enabling digitized health records through DigiLocker and ABDM ma improve convinience, it also raises privacy and security concerns Akshit ChawlaNovember 14, 2022
News Duke, WakeMed Respond to Lawsuit Alleging Sharing Of Sensitive Health Data With Meta Duke University Health System and WakeMed Health sued over sharing sensitive data with Meta through a 'Meta pixel', a tracking tool Akshit ChawlaNovember 11, 2022
News Health tech firms resist Health Data Management Policy, demand self-regulation instead Indian health tech firms demand self-regulation of patient data in the absence of a data protection law in the country Vallari SanzgiriOctober 14, 2022
News Centre to repurpose CoWIN, Arogya Setu for other health purposes, says NHA Chief R S Sharma The Central Government is repurposing digital health platforms Arogya Setu and Co-WIN to address certain health issues in the country, said R S Sharma,... Akshit ChawlaSeptember 27, 2022