'Digital Health Summit 2023' organized by CII in Goa

Current Context: Recently, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has organized the Digital Health Summit 2023 in Goa in collaboration with the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

The summit's focus was on "Building One Health Together – Improving Health Equity" and emphasized the significance of digital health innovations like 3D printing, point-of-care diagnostics, robots, bioinformatics, and genomics to enhance exponential medicine.
The summit aims to establish a framework for digital public goods that promote standards of interoperability, data privacy, and data security while prioritizing "citizen-centric" digital health systems and treatments.
Moreover, the World Health Assembly approved a global strategy on digital health in 2020, which provides a roadmap to integrate innovation and the latest advancements in digital health.
POCD is a growing trend in the medical device industry that facilitates precise diagnosis either by healthcare providers or patients in places with limited resources.
A variety of applications have been developed for POCD including biosensors, handheld ultrasound, portable X-ray, and POCD based on smartphones. On the other hand, an e-pharmacy is a pharmacy that operates online and delivers orders via mail, couriers, or delivery persons.