Dimapur District Hospital becomes Nagaland's first digital health model facility

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He highlighted that ABDM's scan and share feature is a transformative tool that enables patients to seamlessly share their health records with doctors, ensuring faster, safer and more coordinated treatment.

The initiative aims to build a seamless and secure digital health ecosystem by digitising all patient services, providing scan-and-share access for easy registration and health records, and integrating the hospital with ABDM's core components - the Ayushman Bharat Health Account (ABHA), Health Facility Registry (HFR) and Health Professional Registry (HPR), reports PTI.

Medical Dialogues had earlier reported that Nagaland University has inaugurated a cancer research laboratory at the Department of Zoology at its Lumami campus, marking a significant milestone in the university's scientific advancement and commitment to addressing the growing burden of cancer in the region. The cancer research laboratory was inaugurated by Prof. Jagadish Kumar Patnaik, VC of the varsity, in the presence of faculty members and students.

In his address, Patnaik shared his personal experiences on how cancer had profoundly affected his own family, having lost close relatives to the disease.

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