BSNL and Dimension Data have been chosen to host India's National Health Portal using Public Compute-as-a-Service (CaaS).
The National Health Portal is funded by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India and is being developed by the Center of Health Informatics, National Institute of Health & Family Welfare to promote health literacy.
The aim of the portal is to achieve the herculean task of being a single point of access to public health informatics including conceptualization, design, development, deployment, refinement, maintenance and evaluation of information systems relevant to public health.
“Access to health information is one of the foremost rights of humankind. Inadequate or poor health information can increase the risk of hospitalization or even disease burden. Medical information that is not tailored for consumers can be confusing and deciphering this can be difficult,” said Prof. Suptendra Nath Sarbhadhikari, project director, Center for Health Informatics.
Keeping in mind the magnitude of the project and the multiple stakeholder needs, the portal was conceptualized with the intent of leveraging cloud computing right from the start.
Data sovereignty, a high uptime SLA guarantee, and the need for elasticity and self-service management were all critical in choosing the combination of BSNL IDC and Dimension Data as the cloud services provider.
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