CGHS eases Geo-Tagged Photo Upload Norms in New Guidelines

New Delhi: The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has issued revised guidelines under the Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS), offering a significant relief to hospitals and beneficiaries by easing the mandatory geo-tagged photo upload requirement for inpatient (IPD) and outpatient (OPD) treatments.

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Under the new directive, the ministry has approved a one-time waiver for hospitals from uploading daily geo-tagged photographs of admitted patients in select cases. The exemption covers the period from the implementation of the earlier photo upload rule until the date of this new memorandum in 2025.

According to the Office Memorandum (OM), “A one-time waiver is hereby granted for the requirement of uploading daily geo-tagged photographs for the period commencing from the date on which the earlier order mandating daily uploads was issued up to the date of this O.M. A copy of the present O.M. must be appended by the Health-care Organisations (HCOs) to every case covered by this waiver and resubmit in the portal”, reports Economic Times.

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Medical Dialogues had previously reported that two significant Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) has been signed by the National Medicinal Plants Board (NMPB), Ministry of Ayush, Government of India in the presence of Union Minister of State of Ayush (Independent Charge) and Minister of State for Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Shri Prataprao Jadhav, at Nirman Bhawan, New Delhi. The first MoU was signed between the National Medicinal Plants Board (NMPB) and IshVed-Bioplants Venture, Pune, Maharashtra, and the second tripartite MoU was signed among the National Medicinal Plants Board (NMPB), All India Institute of Ayurveda (AIIA) and All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi.