NATIONAL HEALTH RESOURCE REPOSITORY (NHRR)

Oct. 14, 2018

Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare stressed on the need of evidence-based planning of National Health Resource Repository (NHRR).

About:

  • NHRR is Country’s first ever national healthcare facility registry of authentic, standardized and updated geo-spatial data of all public and private healthcare establishments.

  • The vision of the NHRR Project is to develop robust, standardized and secured IT-enabled repository of India’s healthcare resources.

  • It provides comprehensive information of both, Private and Public healthcare establishments including Railways, ESIC, Defence and Petroleum healthcare establishments.

  • Under the Collection of Statistics Act 2008, over 20 lakh healthcare establishments like hospitals, doctors, clinics, diagnostic labs, pharmacies and nursing homes would be enumerated under this census capturing data on over 1,400 variables.

  • It was launched by Union Health Ministry in June 2018.

  • It is conceptualized by the Central Bureau of Health Intelligence (CBHI). The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is the project technology partner for providing data security.