New Delhi: A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was recently signed between the Ministry of Ayush and Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) for providing technical support to the Ministry of Ayush for digitalisation of Ayush Sector under the Ayush Grid project for a period of three years.

According to an official statement, this MoU is continuation of the earlier MoU, which was signed in the year 2019. Vaidya Rajesh Kotecha, Secretary, Ayush and Alkesh Kumar Sharma, Secretary, MeitY signed the MoU on behalf of both the Ministries. It was decided that both the Ministry’s will continue to work in collaboration and MeitY along with organizations under MeitY will extend all technical support required for the Ayush Grid project including  adoption of emerging technologies.

The Ministry of Ayush has conceptualized the ‘Ayush Grid’ Project, as a part of the Digital India Program, which leverages ‘Information and Technology’ to transform operational efficiency, improve service delivery and enhance quality of services. The Ayush Grid platform is envisaged to be the IT backbone; allowing integration of all stakeholders and functions/ services related to Ayush systems of health care.

As per the earlier signed MoU, organizations under MeitY like NeGD supported for development of Ayush Sanjivani mobile application, Monitoring dashboard, BISAG-N for development of Ayush GIS, Ayush education related modules, DIC for development of Ayush Information Hub, website of the Ministry, Ayusoft,  C-DAC for imparting training to Ayush doctors. It is pertinent to mention that NeGD and BISAG-N provided valuable inputs in finalization of various technical documents like technical solution design & DPR of the Project. /BI/