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Tamil Nadu keen on Australian model for beefing up digital healthcare platform, looks for partnerships-by Sajan C Kumar The state’s National Health Mission is on the mission to develop an outcome-based approach to bring more clarity on the money spent on healthcare. Source:Financialexpress To strengthen its digital healthcare platform, the Tamil Nadu government is looking at the Australian model of solutions by which the land Down Under has managed to cover 90% of its population under a digital record system. The state plans to forge partnerships with Australia’s Digital Health Agency on various aspects pertaining to the digitisation of the healthcare records. While Tamil Nadu has a robust healthcare service, the government feels that the state’s healthcare is more of department-centric and cost -specific. According to the government, there is a need to shift to beneficiary-centric approach for which data is important. Given the realisation that due to lack of ...