200 health ATMs set up across Uttar Pradesh.

• The Uttar Pradesh government led by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has set up 200 health ATMs at different locations across the state and has provided experts to run them.
• The state government intends to install health ATMs at all 4,600 wellness centres in the state.
• Efforts are also afoot to provide the facility of tele-consultation at all health centres of the state. Accordingly, health workers are being trained.
• The first health ATM of the state was inaugurated in September this year to upgrade health services. A health ATM can conduct tests for more than 30 diseases immediately.
• Health ATMs will be very effective in making health facilities accessible to the general public.
• Through expert health workers, reports of 30 types of tests will be made available to the patients in a very short time through printout, WhatsApp, e-mail and SMS. Simultaneously, the results of the test will be shared by the doctors on the telemedicine hub.
• There is also a provision to provide medical consultation through telemedicine if there is no doctor at places where health ATMs have been set up.
• Provision of video consultation has already started after the prescribed tests at 200 places.

What is Health ATM? 

• Similar to a bank’s Automated Teller Machine (ATM), a health ATM is a touch-screen kiosk hardware built for managing health-related information. This enables consumers to access their personal health information from any internet-connected web browser.
• It empowers patients and allows them to actively participate in managing their health requirements by providing access to world-class medical facilities.
• Health ATM addresses the issue of primary health care in rural and distant places. It is a sophisticated, modern, simple, accurate, and automated healthcare kiosk.
• A one-stop digital touch-point integrated equipment developed to diagnose all chronic diseases while also providing primary care and diagnostics in rural places.
• ATMs for healthcare are outfitted with cutting-edge diagnostic equipment for basic vitals, cardiology, neurology, pulmonary tests, gynecology, clinical diagnostic and life-saving equipment, and emergency services.