Pre-budget expectations from Zoya Brar, Founder and CEO, CORE Diagnostics.

New Delhi, February 01, 2020: The government should set aside funds to support the development of a federation of healthcare data. This will be the biggest lever for research and growth in the sector and without a government level push, individual players will be unable to do a whole lot. Second, the government should set aside incentives for organizations that are collecting, storing and streamlining their data assets in a manner that allows for the deployment of the data protection bill.

 Despite the intention of the government to promote data privacy through proposals such as the Digital Information Security in Healthcare Act (DISHA), the reality on the ground is fraught with a lack of systems to collect, de-identify, store or control access for data. I hope that the budget will allocate funds to support data privacy initiatives as well.

 I strongly believe that this next decade will be a decade of data in healthcare, the budget must reflect this focus as well”.

Corporate Comm India (CCI Newswire)