Karnataka’s Digital Health Experiment: Can SAMASTA Turn India’s Frontline Workers Into a Real-Time Health Data Network?

Karnataka’s Digital Health Experiment: Can SAMASTA Turn India’s Frontline Workers into a Real-Time Health Data Network?

Karnataka’s Digital Health Experiment: Can SAMASTA Turn India’s Frontline Workers into a Real-Time Health Data Network?

India’s next digital-health breakthrough may not emerge from a hospital command centre, an AI diagnostic engine or another patient-facing app. It could begin at a doorstep.

An ASHA worker is visiting a pregnant woman. An ANM (Auxiliary Nurse Midwife) is checking an immunisation status. A community health worker is screening a household for hypertension or diabetes. Every such interaction produces information that can potentially tell the health system something about the population it serves. For years, however, much of that information has moved upwards through registers, forms and reporting layers, often reaching administrators after the moment that generated it has passed.

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