The National Health Portal was set up by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to provide consolidated healthcare information and serve as a single point of access for health information. The portal aims to be a gateway for authenticated health information for all citizens, students, healthcare professionals, and researchers. It collects, verifies, and disseminates health and healthcare delivery information. The National Health Portal coordinates with various ongoing health initiatives and can help monitor national eHealth activities and programs.

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National Health Portal and
Relevance to Healthcare for All
Prof. Suptendra Nath Sarbadhikari, MBBS, PhD
Project Director, Centre for Health Informatics
of the National Health Portal
Member-Secretary, SCNHP
NIHFW, Munirka, New Delhi 110 067
supten@gmail.com

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Background
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has set up
the National Health Portal (NHP) in pursuance to the
decision of the National Knowledge Commission
(NKC):
•To provide healthcare related information, and,
•To serve as a single point of access for consolidated
health information.
The National Institute of Health and Family Welfare
(NIHFW) has established Centre for Health
Informatics (CHI) to be the secretariat for the NHP.

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Objectives
GOAL
Gateway to authentic health information for all.
VISION
The National Health Portal aims to make this as a
single point access for authenticated health
information for citizens, students, healthcare
professionals and researchers.
MISSION
The National Health Portal will achieve the above
vision by collecting, verifying and disseminating
health and health care delivery services related
information for all citizens of India.

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Interactive Features
 General Forum for general discussions among common
persons, patients, care givers and healthcare professionals:
http://www.nhp.gov.in/forum/14
 Professional Forum for discussion among health care
professionals: http://www.nhp.gov.in/forum/15
 Help Desk for Implementation of EHR Standards:
http://www.nhp.gov.in/electronic-health-record-standards
 Forum for discussing implementation of EHR:
http://www.nhp.gov.in/forum/18
 Feedback on the content on NHP:
http://www.nhp.gov.in/contact
 Social Media – Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/NHPINDIA
 Social Media – Twitter: https://twitter.com/NHP_INDIA also
with hashtag #nhportal

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Relation with other ongoing
activities of MoHFW
 The NeHA (National eHealth Authority) of India is being set up
to monitor all eHealth activities and the NHP will be proposed
to be the Secretariat for the same.
 The MMP (Health) proposes a Citizen’s Portal that can be built
upon the NHP which will form its informational base.
 MoHFW has become a country member of IHTSDO that
develops and distributes the SNOMED-CT medical vocabulary
standards. It requires a NRC for local adoption and
translation. NeHA / NHP can become the Indian NRC for
SNOMED-CT.
 NHM has an ambitious National Helpline program of 104 that
has been so far adopted by only 7 states. NHP can coordinate
to make it a central helpdesk that will appropriately interact
with and route to the relevant states for the required services.

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