The healthcare industry has a pivotal role in the economic health of the country. The prime health objective of National Health Policy 2002 is to ensure equal access, to medical services to all citizens irrespective of the location of their residence. This article narrates the present status of the health care and the role of electronics in improving healthcare.

The healthcare industry has a pivotal role in the economic health of the country. The prime health objective of National health Policy 2002 is to ensure equal access to medical services to all citizens irrespective of the location of their residence. Within the last several years, advances in computer technology and the field of informatics have created unprecedented opportunities for improving the completeness, timeliness and quality of public health data. The data, which was previously collected with paper and exchanged through cumbersome transfers of large databases, is now done through the support of Information Technology. The government, while recognizing IT as a thrust area for growth, has taken a number of initiatives to promote Information Technology in the various sectors of the country and one of these sectors is healthcare.

E-Governance denotes an innovative use of information and communication technology to deliver and improve public services to ensure transparency in government decisions and government procurement and enhance citizen participation in decision making and thus bring about Simple, Moral, Accountable, Responsive and Transparent (SMART) governance. As a result, transformation of healthcare paradigm from "after-the fact-treatment" to "before -onset care" is well underway.

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