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National Health Profile 2018
Goal
NHRR envisages creating a single gateway of authentic, standardized, updated public and private healthcare
resource intelligence and develop user friendly system with utility to serve as a decision making tool for varied
categories of health system stakeholders.
Objectives
It has been mandated to achieve the following objectives
• Promote evidence based planning and decision making in healthcare sector through provision of
comprehensive data on healthcare resources (both public and private sector) in the country.
• Provide visibility of private sector healthcare resources to facilitate public private partnership
initiatives for improve access and availability of health services
• Provide technology based solutions to improve efficiency of health systems by improving planning,
provisioning of healthcare resources
• Improve informed decision making and community awareness by allowing access to holistic
information on healthcare resources.
• Promote meaningful use of data collection and exchange services for better healthcare management
by providing a common platform for sharing information.
• Promote convergence between similar programmes by providing interoperability
• Enhance effectiveness of programme planning and implementation at centre, state and district level
by providing updated healthcare resource status.
• Provide a platform for managing emergencies effectively by providing information on all the
healthcare resources (public & private) in the designated geography.
• Furnish standardized data, distribution of resources and trends on the global platform, using regularly
updated health status indicators.
Rationale from NHRR Stakeholders and users perspectives
Decision making in the healthcare sector is highly complex and have different levels ranges from single patient to
country’s policy makers at large. Stakeholders in health system range from single patient, community, providers,
professional bodies, health Councils, various professional bodies, State, Central government and various
development agencies etc
It was comprehended that envisaged NHRR should be able to cater the requirements of all stakeholders.
Considering relevance and classification of data to be captured under NHRR, all stakeholders can be divided into
four categories- Policy Makers, National & State Programme Managers, community and Private Providers.
NHRR aims to support decision making of all these stakeholders by providing reliable information, thereby,
catering to the unmet needs of these stakeholders.
Needs of Policy Makers:
It is important that larger policy decisions are taken based on latest and reliable information on the available
healthcare resources, their deployment and trends that can address entrenched problem of health system with
real time solutions. To aid this, health policy and system planning must be demand-driven, and satisfy the needs
of modern healthcare systems utilizing up-do-date information on country’s healthcare resources.