The hackathon will focus on the Unified Health Interface (UHI) and aims to bring together individuals and organizations to accelerate the health start-up ecosystem in India and develop solutions through UHI, he said.
The hackathon will provide innovators, data experts and developers around the world with an excellent opportunity to collaborate and create innovative solutions to provide access to digital health services through UHI, the statement said.
UHI is designed as an open network to enable inter-managed transactions of digital health services such as teleconsultation.
Through UHI, patients can discover, book, conduct and pay for the services offered by various participating providers from any application of their choice.
This is in contrast to the current mode of digital health service delivery where patients and doctors must deal using a common application or platform, the NHA statement said.
Announcing the hackathon series, NHA CEO RS Sharma said, “India has enabled the creation of some of the most efficient public distribution systems in the world, as witnessed by JAM and UPIBy breaking the silos and unlocking network effects. ”
ABDM and UHI will enable it for the healthcare ecosystem and this hackathon series will enable players to collaborate and create solutions that define the future of healthcare, according to the statement.
The first round of the series will focus on two main themes – the Innovation Track and the Integration Track, the statement said.
Under the innovation track there will be a challenge for innovative solutions to power digital health in an open network around various use cases such as teleconsultation, ambulance booking, lab test, physical consultation booking and lab test booking.
Integration Track The challenge will be to integrate this application with the applications of other such participants to accelerate the development of applications that are compatible with UHI and to enable digital health transactions on the UHI network.
The temporary prize pool for the first round is Rs. Is 60,00,000. Top performers on each of these challenge tracks will be awarded.
“Furthermore, as part of the UHI hackathon, the NHA will organize master classes to further participants’ understanding of the ABDM ecosystem. Details about upcoming master classes, challenge statements, prizes under each category and other updates will be posted on the ABDM website,” the statement added.
