NEW DELHI : Centre on Monday approved the health data management policy of the National Digital Health Mission (NDHM) that sets out the minimum standard for data privacy protection that should be followed across the board in order to ensure compliance with relevant and applicable laws, rules and regulations.The policy that was approved by Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan acts as a guidance document across the National Digital Health Ecosystem (NDHE).
The government said that this policy is to be read along with, and not in contradiction to, any applicable law, or any instrument having the effect of any law together with the Blueprint, the information security policy, the data retention and archival policy and any other policy which may.