Integrated Health Information Platform (IHIP):

Context:

• The Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare virtually launched the Integrated Health Information Platform (IHIP).

About IHIP :

• India is the first country within the world to adopt such a complicated disease closed-circuit television.
• The remake of IHIP will house the info entry and management for India's disease surveillance program.
• Analyzed reports will be provided on mobile or various electronic devices.
• It can easily be integrated with another ongoing surveillance program while having the feature of the addition of special surveillance modules.
• It is in sync with the National Digital Health Mission and fully compatible with the other digital information systems presently being used in India.
• It shall ensure near-real-time data in digital mode, having done away with the paper mode of working.