The State Health Department has written to the Indian Medical Association (IMA) and Private Hospitals and Nursing Homes’ Association (PHANA) to make sure all private hospitals mandatorily notify all communicable diseases on the Centre’s Integrated Health Information Portal (IHIP).
IHIP, a web-enabled real-time electronic information system, has been developed under the Centre’s Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP) to facilitate mandatory notification on a daily basis.
The platform necessitates private sector participation in developing and linking systems into a common network/grid, which can be accessed by both public and private healthcare providers.
