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Kerela Health Department’s ambitious e-health project has managed to complete a tumultuous pilot phase with “significant achievements” on one side and much valuable lessons learnt on the other.
However, scaling up of the project across the State could remain a far-fetched dream, as the financial investment it entails is huge and the technical challenges immense, it is feared.
The ₹96-crore project envisages the development of an electronic demographic data base, electronic health records (EHRs) of a population and end-to-end automation of all government hospitals.
With less than ₹30 crore Central funds remaining to be secured, finding funds to sustain the project in the long term is a challenge that the Health Department will have to face head on.
read more at https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/funds-crunch-may-hit-e-health-project/article25215358.ece
This pilot has finally reached a point of success after over 5 years of turmoil. Its critical that this project is funded to scale.
Pilotitis should not get another victim, and one where the claim of success is made, something which is not the case with ober 90% of pilots globally.
How to source missing funds: They may find it prudent to look at additional value benefits which can be obtained with additional modules or applications. These are in addition to the features that were part of the pilot. The additional benefits to different departments and/or different ministries may open the doors to get the additional funds