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Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya gave a speech on Sunday at the G7 Ministerial Meeting on Health Innovation in Nagasaki, Japan.

The purpose of the discussion was to examine how to ensure universal health coverage by prioritising, implementing, and using health technologies like digital health.

The summit was attended by the health ministers of the G7 nations and the “Outreach 4” nations of India, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Thailand.

Speaking on occasion, Dr Mandaviya said, “Use of technology and Digital Health Tools are an enabler and equalizer which can facilitate strengthened health service delivery and aid in the achievement of Universal Health Coverage. The COVID-19 pandemic has catalysed the use of technology in health service delivery and also highlighted the need to focus on an enabling framework to bridge the digital divide across the countries specifically amongst low-and-middle-income countries.”

Highlighting India’s achievements in Digital Health, the Union Health Minister said, “India’s COVID-19 vaccine delivery platform, Co-WIN has monitored the administration of over 2.2 billion vaccine doses across the length and breadth of the country and monitored not only cold chain management but also facilitated citizens and vaccinators in administration of the vaccines besides providing a QR code based digital vaccine certificate”.

“Similarly, eSanjeevani, a National telemedicine platform, launched during the pandemic has already coordinated more than 115 million, free of cost, consultations to the citizens, making it the world’s biggest telemedicine platform”, he added.

Dr. Mandaviya emphasised the importance of embracing the benefits provided by new and evolving tools, emphasising how big data analytics, smart wearables, and artificial intelligence can support clinical decision support systems, precision medicine, personalised healthcare, genomics, and clinical decision support systems, ensuring the proper treatment is given to the right person at the right time.

He emphasised the significance of making sure these technical tools are accessible and said, “India has already taken a policy decision to provide all such digital tools free of cost to the world as Digital Public Goods.”

The foundation of the Global Initiative on Digital Health, based at the headquarters of the World Health Organisation, according to Dr. Mandaviya, has advocated the convergence mechanisms of all digital efforts around the world. Digital health has been made a specific focus during India’s G20 Presidency.

He emphasised the importance of the proposed network-of-networks concept in closing the digital divide globally and pleaded with the G7 nations to support it.

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