Senior Analyst, ABDM (Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh)

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Project Background:

Launched in September 2021, the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) seeks to power India’s quest for Universal Health Coverage by creating the interoperability required for digital health technologies and platforms to ‘speak’ seamlessly to each other, thereby making healthcare interventions more affordable and accessible for all Indian citizens.

Central to ABDM is the principle of consent, and the concept of a health account (Ayushman Bharat Health Account or ABHA). An Indian Citizen can create an ABHA and link their personal health and / or medical records to this account. Using the ABDM’s Consent Manager functionality, they can then share their records with any other system that is ABDM-enabled. For instance, if they have been referred to a specialist for a consultation, they may provide them with access to diagnostic and other records that provide the specialist a comprehensive view of their medical history. Similarly, at the registration desk of a hospital, instead of waiting in a long queue, a patient can simply scan a QR code and transfer basic details about themselves (attached to their ABHA) to the hospital’s registration system and receive a ‘token’. This ‘scan and share’ functionality has been deployed across 3,400+ facilities across the country and has already generated over 1.6 crore tokens. It remains, however, just one example of the utility of ABDM. Many more such functionalities and use cases of that unlock the full potential of ABDM are on the anvil.

There has already been tremendous progress in the adoption of ABDM:

(Refer https://dashboard.abdm.gov.in/abdm/ for more details)

WJCF supports the National Health Authority (NHA), an autonomous government institution that are tasked with the implementation of ABDM, to strengthen the roll-out and scale-up this transformative digital health initiative. We have been selected to provide support to the Uttar Pradesh State ABDM Office in driving adoption of ABDM in the state. Our focus is on driving adoption of ABDM among healthcare providers, especially private sector physicians. ABDM’s progression to date has been led largely by the government sector. For ABDM to reach its full potential, it is crucial for the private sector to come on board in full measure. A key constituency in the private sector are doctors, who are not only the main ‘consumers’ of health and medical records (on the basis of which they make their diagnoses and prescribe care) but also the main ‘producers’ of these records.

Position Summary:

WJCF has been selected by the Uttar Pradesh State ABDM Office to serve as the ‘Development Partner’ for eight microsites (Aligarh, Bareilly, Bijnor, Ghaziabad, Hardoi, Muzaffarnagar, Rampur, and Saharanpur) in line with the ‘Operational Guidelines for Activating Microsites in the Country’. This would, among other things, entail working closely with multiple stakeholders, including the State ABDM Office, state-and local-level authorities and professional bodies, the on-ground field staff of ‘Interfacing Agency’ and most importantly, healthcare professionals, to successfully implement the microsites. As a ‘Development Partner’, WJCF will also be responsible for building capacity of the field staff deployed by the ‘Interfacing Agency’ and supporting the State ABDM Office in reporting the progress across the microsites to the NHA

Towards this end, WJCF is looking for a Senior Analyst to work in close collaboration with the Uttar Pradesh State ABDM Office in Lucknow and support the Interfacing Agencies working for the implementation of microsites in Aligarh, Bareilly, Hardoi and Rampur to help drive adoption of ABDM among healthcare professionals in the state.

The Senior Analyst will support the State ABDM Office in widening their engagement with healthcare professionals by leveraging various existing platforms such as medical conferences, digital health events, and such others and deepen the engagement with the healthcare professionals through implementation of ‘microsites’ In the state. This approach is predicated on regular in-person engagement with healthcare professionals in a limited geography. The objective is to introduce ABDM (and more broadly, the value proposition of digitization) to healthcare professionals and facilitate their journeys to ABDM-enabled healthcare delivery. The milestones in this journey include:

The microsite approach to adoption is important for the ABDM ecosystem in two main ways:

This role provides an opportunity to be at the heart of and directly influence the nascent and fast-moving digital health journey in India. While based out of the State ABDM Office in Lucknow, the successful candidate will be supported by and work closely with our ABDM Adoption team based out of the NHA.

Responsibilities

Primary responsibilities will include:

Qualifications

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Skills & Traits:

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