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The DigiSahamati Foundation, the non-profit Self Regulatory Organization responsible for evangelizing the nascent Account Aggregator (AA) ecosystem, is organizing a hackathon featuring lots of masterclasses for the public to attend and learn from. As a refresher, an AA is a new kind of legal entity defined in this RBI circular. The basic idea is that …
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We have an exciting announcement for you all today! We are publishing a draft of the technical standards of the Personal Health Records (PHR) component of the National Health Stack (NHS)! As a refresher, these standards govern the consented sharing of health information between Health Information Providers (HIPs) – like hospitals, pathology labs, and clinics …
Powered by data-led scientific rigor, the India COVID-19 SEIR Model delivers early infection trends for every district in India. The model is geared to help Indians from all walks of life plan life and work decisions around their region’s projected trends over the next 15-30 days. Hospitals can use the model to plan for a …
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When reality changes, it’s important for the firms to acknowledge and adjust to the new situation. This is the time to remember the mantra ‘Revenue is Vanity, Profit is Sanity, Cash is Reality’. The Covid-19 crisis is much written about, debated and analyzed. If there is one thing everyone can agree about on the future, …
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On 13th June, iSPIRT hosted the fourth open house discussion on the National Health Stack (NHS). For anybody unfamiliar with the NHS, here are some introductory blog posts and videos. In the session, our volunteer Vikram Srinivasan deep dived into the Enrollment APIs of the electronic doctor registry. These APIs are called when a new …
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On 6th June, we marked the third open house discussion of the National Health Stack (NHS). At the beginning of the session, iSPIRT volunteer Sharad Sharma offered a brief recap of the NHS and painted a roadmap for future developments in this initiative (including timelines, agendas, and future open house sessions). Sharad also discussed the …
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iSPIRT hosted the second open house session on the National Health Stack (NHS). In this session, our health stack volunteers dived deeper into the Personal Health Record (PHR) system and also covered the concept of the Electronic Doctor Registry. In the first part of the session, our volunteer Siddharth Shetty answered technical questions pertaining to …
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Yesterday afternoon, we hosted our first Open House Session in partnership with Swasth Alliance on the National Health Stack (NHS). For those unfamiliar with this infrastructure, it is helpful to picture the NHS as a multi-layer cake designed to elevate the capacity of the Indian healthcare ecosystem. At the base layer is a set of …
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The National Health Stack is a set of foundational building blocks that will be built as shared digital infrastructure, usable by both public sector and private sector players. Healthcare delivery in India faces multiple challenges today. The doctor-patient ratio in the country is extremely poor, a problem that is exacerbated by the uneven distribution of …
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Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman announced stimulus to help economic revival in wake of COVID-19. Out of these measure a major portion was announced for businesses in MSMEs category. Some of the important measures announced and that may directly benefit MSMEs in Software product eco-system are as given below. Collateral free loan of Rs 3 lakh …
In the interest of transparency, here is our entire exchange with The Ken. Our first email response to The Ken Dear Sanjay and Siddharth, Hope you are safe and doing well. I’m a reporter with The Ken and I’m working on a story looking at the now pulled-back launch of Sahay on May 21 by …
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As you may have heard from us or read about in our publications, iSPIRT takes the long view on problems. We call ourselves 30 year architects for India’s hard problems. The critical insight to a 30-year journey of success is that it requires one to be able to work with and grow the ecosystem, rather …
Many ongoing industry efforts to bring cash flow lending to life for MSMEs are now on hiatus COVID19 strikes cash flow lending too At iSPIRT, with our long-cherished dream of democratising credit in this country, we advocated for and built public infrastructure to enable market players to offer cash flow based lending solutions to small …
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I wanted to write a post on how timing is important for a product-market fit – but with the covid19 times, this has become even more important as the leading indicators change superfast. Usually, such events create massive opportunities for certain products, and if you have that product, you are bound to win. Marc Anderssen …
In 1973, the British economist Ernst Schumacher wrote his manifesto “Small is Beautiful”, and changed the world. Schumacher’s prescription — to use technologies that were less resource-intensive, capable of generating employment, and “appropriate” to local circumstances — appealed to a Western audience that worried about feverish consumption by the ‘boomer’ generation. Silicon Valley soon seized …
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