NRCeS Adoption & Standards
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NRCeS: Facilitating National Adoption (Speaker: Ms. Manisha Mantri, C-DAC)
Section titled “NRCeS: Facilitating National Adoption (Speaker: Ms. Manisha Mantri, C-DAC)”The success of digital health depends on a single point of contact for standards and implementation support.
Figure: The core service domains of NRCeS, ranging from tools/SDKs to advisory and education.
- Standards Development & Stewardship: NRCeS facilitates the adoption of notified EHR standards for India and acts as a knowledge base for associated resources.
- Co-Development & Implementation: They assist in the development of building blocks for national health missions (NDHM/ABDM) and provide hands-on implementation support to hospitals and clinicians.
- Tools & SDK Development: They develop and maintain critical tools like CSNOtk (SNOMED CT Toolkit) and CLNtk (LOINC Toolkit) to ease standard integration.
The NRCeS Mandate: Listening to the Community
Section titled “The NRCeS Mandate: Listening to the Community”
Figure: The community-centric mandate of the National Resource Centre, bridging policy and practice.
NRCeS is designed to be the “technical glue” that holds the multi-stakeholder ecosystem together:
- Open Systems & Tools: Providing FOSS tools/libraries and free education/training to avoid vendor lock-in.
- Ecosystem Support: Supporting governance bodies, public/private HCIT implementers, and individual healthcare professionals alike.
- Contextualization: Catering to India-specific requirements and ensuring national standards are globally compatible but locally relevant.
The Way Forward: Building for Adoption
Section titled “The Way Forward: Building for Adoption”The strategic roadmap for the next decade focuses on building solutions that are “Standard compliant & Interoperable by Design.”
Figure: The strategic roadmap: From infrastructure to “User-Driven” solutions and enforcement authority.
- Patient & Provider Driven: Moving from “top-down” mandates to solutions that solve real-world friction for patients and clinicians.
- HIE Backbone Infrastructure: Maturing the National & State level infrastructure for discovery and delivery of health services.
- Governance & Compliance: Establishing clear enforcement authorities to address issues and ensure adherence to national standards.
Facilitating National Standards: The NRC Hub
Section titled “Facilitating National Standards: The NRC Hub”A critical role of the NRC (National Resource Centre for EHR Standards) is finalizing and pushing the HL7 FHIR R4 standards to the country. This ensures that every digital health application in the ecosystem speaks the same semantic language, preventing the creation of new “data silos” even as systems modernize.