NABH Digital Health Standards DIS DOM by Sangeetha Ajay, Manager, Digital Services, ACME Consulting.

NABH Digital Health Standards Implementation - Digital Health Infrastructure.
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Topics
1. Digital Health Infrastructure
2. The benefits of digital health technology
a) can be used anytime, anywhere.
b) can reduce travel, resulting in benefits to the environment
c) can reach more people than face to face care
d) can empower people to manage their own conditions.
3. Objective Elements
4. The hospital uses Information and Communication Technology (ICT) capabilities to facilitate their digital operations.
a) The hospital uses a digital system that supports accessibility of Uniform Resource Locator (URL) on all kinds of devices whether tablet, mobile device, desktop, etc.
b) In case of a web-based digital system, support for more than one widely used browsers is available to the hospital.
c) The hospital provides treating medical practitioners with electronic devices to access electronic health records of patients.
d) The hospital's allied services staff members are equipped with adequate electronic devices to access the hospital's administrative applications.
e) The hospital ensures that backup is available for internal network.
f) The hospital uses
a) a power backup for their digital systems.
b) a digital system that supports single sign-on capabilities.
c) The hospital staff uses mobile devices rather than fixed devices to access hospital's digital system.
d) a digital means to ensure that their data is encrypted.
e) Active anti-virus to prevent, detect, and remove malware for hospital applications.
f) Firewall that monitors incoming and outgoing network
traffic.
g) Digital system that captures the audit trails of each transaction.
h) Digital mechanism to allow secure access of hospital's data
through remote location.
5. Digital Operations Management
6. The hospital uses an Digital system to
a) IT policy to manage their digital operations.
b) Manage internal maintenance plan for IT systems and services.
c) Generate reports that helps to measure their IT infrastructure efficiency.
d) Monitor the performance of different healthcare applications.
e) The hospital uses written guidance for usage and operations of IT resources.
f) IT support to manage their infrastructure to run digital operations smoothly.
g) Hospital has continuous support including updates and upgrades for their non-clinical systems.
h) Formal change request process to manage IT related Changes.
7. The hospital uses a digital system to manage IT/digital assets.
The Hospital Uses a
a) Digital system to manage inventory record of all IT assets.
b) Centralized digital data repository for all electronic health records (EHRs).
c) Record and track IT security incidents, issues, changes, and problems.
d) The hospital periodically conducts IT audits internally to confirm no major vulnerabilities.
8. The hospital has a disaster recovery and service continuity plan for the digital systems.
The hospital uses a disaster recovery plan to
a) manage patient healthcare records in case of an unforeseen circumstances.
b) manage administrative applications.
9. The hospital uses access control to secure their digital system.
The hospital uses a digital system to
a) manage end-user credential and authentication.
b) digital mechanism to protect and restrict data transfer on external storage devices.
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