In another two and half month prescribing medicines through an SMS will become a reality. The State Government of Madhya Pradesh feels that this step will compensate, to a large extent, shortage of doctors in Madhya Pradesh. Beginning this Gandhi Jayanti – October 2nd – prescriptions of some 7,700 government doctors can come in the form of mobile text message and will be accepted by state-run health centres and provide free medicine to people.
Many medical practitioners are today keen to use mobile devices for providing right advice at the right time to their patients. My interactions with a good number of healthcare fraternity has led me to the realisation that today there exists a broad agreement on the issue of using new technologies to fill demand supply gap of medical staff in primary and secondary care set-ups in villages. Both government and private institutions have stated making use of telemedicine, mHelath, etc, to extend healthcare in the far-flung areas.
The August Edition of eHEALTH carries interactions with many key stakeholders. For example, you will find interviews of Dr (Prof) Jagidsih Prasad, Director General of Health Services, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Govt of India, Dr Arun Panda, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Health, Ajay Prakash Sawhney, Principal Secretary, Department of Health, Medical and Family Welfare, Government of Andhra Pradesh. These interactions only lead us to the conclusion that we are now steadily towards innovative solutions in healthcare.
I would also like to tell our readers that the August 2013 issue of eHEALTH will be launched by the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh at the prestigious eINDIA2013 Summit, being organised on 23-24 July, 2013, at the Hyderabad International Convention Centre, Hyderabad, in the presence of many key officials from the Centre and States who are playing a stellar role in implementation of new healthcare initiatives in the Country. If you are there at the eINDIA 2013 summit, then you might already have received your copy of eHealth.
We look forward to seeing you at eINDIA 2013. After all, it is very essential that all sections of society participate in the discussions on the ways by which the scope of healthcare can be further improved in the country. While we have scored lot of successes in this area, there exists room for lot of new initiatives to be launched.

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