Integrated Health Information Platform (IHIP)

In News: The first one-of-its-kind initiative by the Government of India, IHIP uses the latest technologies and digital health initiatives.

About IHIP

Under Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India
The Government has launched Integrated Health Information Platform (IHIP) in 7 States in 2018 and currently, it is operational in 11 States. Action is being initiated for pan-India expansion of the revised surveillance platform for which the trainings are being conducted in all the states and UT’s.
IHIP is real time, village-wise, case based electronic health information system with GIS tagging which will help in prompt prevention and control of epidemic prone diseases.
Initiative will provide near-real-time data to policy makers for detecting outbreaks, reducing the morbidity and mortality and lessening disease burden in the populations and better health systems.
Objective of IHIP is to enable the creation of standards compliant Electronic Health Records (EHRs) of the citizens on a pan-India basis.
The EHRs aim to build a comprehensive Health Information Exchange (HIE) as part of this centralized accessible platform.
The success depends primarily on the quality of data shared by the states.
Effective implementation IHIP, 32,000 people at the block level, 13,000 at the district level and 900 at the state level have been trained.