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Government hospitals and health centres across India will soon start enroling children for Aadhaar – the 12-digit unique identity number – at their premises soon after the child’s birth. Hospital, community and primary health centres will be provided with a tablet and their staff trained to carry out the enrolment. For generating the unique number, the hospital will get the child’s photograph and biometric detail of one of their parents. “Enroling children right after birth will ensure better delivery of entitlements and services under Integrated Child Development Scheme and various government run programmes. Not only will it help track the nutritional status of the child from birth but also monitor if anganwadi workers are delivering services at their respective centre,” ABP Pandey, Unique Identification Authority of India’s (UIDAI) director general, said. Aadhaar can also be used to track attendance of children in their schools at a later stage, Pandey added. For original and

The Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, reviewed the progress of Aaadhar and Direct Benefit Transfer programmes at a high level meeting on 9th May 2016.   In the course of the two hour meeting, the Prime Minister was informed about the progress made in Aaadhar number generation, and seeding of official databases with Aaadhar numbers to streamline the process of identification of beneficiaries, and to ensure proper targeting of benefits to the people. It was informed that in 2015-16, an amount of over Rs. 61,000 crore was distributed to over 30 crore beneficiaries, using Direct Benefit Transfer. This includes over Rs. 25,000 crore in MGNREGS, and over Rs. 21,000 crore in PAHAL (for LPG). DBT has resulted in significant savings across welfare schemes. It has also resulted in weeding out of duplicate beneficiaries. For instance, over 1.6 crore bogus ration cards have been deleted, resulting in savings of about Rs. 10,000 crore. Similarly, 3.5 crore duplicate beneficiaries were weeded out

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Providers have volumes of data in electronic health records, but struggle with how to bring that information to bear to improve patient care. Drawing in ever-changing patient information, and knowing what steps to take as a result, is crucial when dealing with conditions like sepsis and the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), which require careful and timely treatment. Getting real-time decision support in these cases, tailored to individual patients, is what VigiLanz Corp. does. Its enterprise Software as a Service approach is just an example of how providers may be able to call on third parties to layer services on top of existing clinical systems to derive benefits. VigiLanz takes in electronic data in real time from more than 400 hospital clients. It aggregates disparate transactional workflow and documentation data from the hospitals’ EMRs, and then analyzes it in real time. Doing so enables VigiLanz to identify clinical issues and enable organizations to react quickl

Governments transfer money to citizens for many reasons — student scholarships, old age pensions, subsidy for LPG cylinders etc. Such transfers are plagued by the problems of diversion, duplication and falsification, and a large part of the transfers does not reach the genuine beneficiaries. How do we get over these problems? The answer was to ‘identify’ each beneficiary by a ‘unique’ number linked to minimum biometric data. Unique number schemes were not new to the country: the income-tax department has PAN for each assessee and a credit card bears a unique number for the card holder. In 2009, the UPA government decided to introduce Aadhaar.  The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) was established by an executive order and Mr Nandan Nilekani was roped in to steer the programme and the Authority. Mr Nilekani brought his tremendous knowledge of technology and proven entrepreneurship to the UIDAI. What might have otherwise turned into another lackadaisical depart