E-Governance to E-Health : A Smart Road Map for Society

Abstract

In the present days of high price, the developing countries like India are struggling very hard to provide medical facilities to its Citizen within an affordable budget. Due to lack of proper information and resources, Citizen residing at the geographically remote locations are unaware about the state-of-the-art medical facilities. To solve this issue using advanced communication technologies, Government must design a proper co-ordination with its administration and the medical services available under its jurisdiction, so that Citizen can get the information of proper medical facilities during its need. To achieve this objective, Government must uniquely identify the Citizen during secured electronic communication for medical purposes. On the other hand, the Citizen must have an electronic mechanism to collect prompt information about medical services at its nearby location. With this view to deliver various electronic facilities at the door steps of the Citizen, we have already proposed a Citizen centric multivariate electronic smart card based E-Governance mechanism. However, in this paper, we will only discuss the application of our proposed E-Governance mechanism to provide Electronic Health (i.e E-Health) services to the Citizen during its need.