Prakash Kumar

Excerpts from the Diary: November 13, 2014, 6 PM Contemplating the Art of Balancing Desires Struggling with the tumultuous waves of unwanted lust and desire, I find myself at a crossroads where these impulses significantly impact both my professional and personal realms. Despite considerable knowledge and practicing self-control, I am perplexed as to why mastering this aspect remains elusive. I suspect that my tendency towards extremes might be the root cause. It's either complete immersion or total abandonment, with no middle ground. I lack the skill to navigate responsible, manageable desires—a critical aspect of a balanced life. The challenge intensifies when, after abandoning something entirely, I return to it for some reason. The resurgence of lust and desire at such times is overpowering, surpassing previous levels. This cycle of departure and return exacerbates my struggles. The key, it seems, lies in mastering the delicate art of balance. But how does one achieve this equil...

BHAVYA (Hospital Information Management System) comprehensive training on all modules for all types of user’s kick started from 20 th   January from Sadar Hospital Muzaffarpur and Referral Hospital Sakra, Muzaffarpur. The training includes classroom teaching sessions, hands-on training sessions on computers and assessment. The entire training will be conducted in 264 batches at 17 locations over 45 days with more than 1000 sessions across Muzaffarpur district at Sadar Hospital and 16 blocks HQ at RH/CHCs. It will impart training to 1500 + health officials of Muzaffarpur from Sadar Hospital, RH, PHC/CHC, APHC and HSC in 45 days. It is being led by a team of 31 trainers, 14 local trainers supported by training coordinators and a team of observers/monitors to ensure quality of training meeting as per the schedule and timeline. The attendance sheet will capture the presence of trainees in each session and their feedback and assessment matrix. The training team is working closely with ...

Change Management for Hospital Information Management System (HIMS) The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress. Charles Kettering Health transformation through digital means is not about technology but about people, changing the mindset and embracing the change. In this context it is most important for any digitally enabled health transformation project to ensure that the change through HIMS implementation is sustainable across all user groups. Core users, such as doctors and nurses, need to understand why the change is happening, how it can benefit them individually, and how it will impact their day-to-day activities. Additionally, it is important to communicate how integrated HIMS will make their work easier. Clear communication and training can help ensure a successful implementation and adoption of the new system. The ADKAR model for change management is a widely used framework for managing change and can be effective in digital transform...

BHAVYA: Bihar Health Application Visionary Yojana for All The adoption of digital services has increased significantly since the roll-out of 4G in India, particularly in the banking and finance sector, which has used digital technologies to improve efficiency and provide better quality services to its customers. The Unified Payments Interface (UPI) has facilitated a smooth digital transformation of the banking and financial sectors, resulting in a decrease in in-person banking and an increase in digital transactions outside of banks premises. The travel industry has also embraced digital innovation, with most flight and train ticket bookings being done online. Other sectors have also experienced success with digital adoption, but the healthcare sector has been slower to adopt digital technologies due to various challenges and contradictions. While there have been some instances of vertical automation in the healthcare sector since 2010, it lacks a comprehensive digital ecosystem. How...

How to gain and build Digital Trust is particularly important for the success of any Health IT solutions? For the success of any digitally enabled health service improvement program the most significant aspect is to gain trust of all stakeholders. The success of the program will be in question if there is lack of commitment of involved stakeholders, it will reduce its outcome and defeat the very purpose of its implementation. There is ample evidence which suggests that digitization in any field or domain has improved quality of living and saved time in completing day to day tasks of common citizens across the country. It has become part of life. However, it has also instilled fear among citizens due to lack of security, safety and reducing trust in digital applications. One can see increasing trust gap in all domains of life but lack of trust in digital application will decrease its fast adoption and in delivering intended benefits to improve system and governance. Large scale data bre...

  Digitally enabled health care is a win-win situation for everyone Patients: Registration, appointment, availability of services on a finger click Diagnosis, laboratory, radiology report/data and its tracking, monitoring, storage, use and sharing SMS/Email alerts, reminders on status, information, and related activity. Online payment, expenditure tracking and payment of incentives /subsidies Specific disease related communication /information and follow up. Support group (patients to patients) Service feedback by patients/public Information sharing and seeking specific information Time saving   Healthcare givers: Easy identification/registration of patients through ABHA No. Availability of patient’s health records Easy management of prescription Laboratory and radiology information management and sharing of results Telemedicine diagnosis, monitoring Referral management Assisted diagnosis support system, treatment protocols, case studies etc. Better communication on roster, ro...

Since last few years Grant Funding for climate and broader environment areas is decreasing and in all probability post COVID it will be further decreased.  In 2020 US Grant for this area was in % terms as below, 1.Air, land and water conservation :19  2. Environment education,justice and resource rights :19  3. Sustainable Fishing and agriculture : 16 4.Energy resources and access :18 5.Forestry :1 6. CLIMATE CHANGE: 23 7. Waste management :4  To Restrict warming to 1.5 degree c requires major GHG reductions by 2030 and net zero emissions by 2050. This requires trillions of dollar of capital spending and more funding to improve resilience against physical hazards. Apart from this lot of funding is required for developing scalable low carbon technologies such as  -Renewables Solar/Wind  -Green Hydrogen -Carbon capture , utilization and storage -Natural Climate solutions (NCS) such as reforestation to achieve 1/3rd reductions  -Battery-electric vehicles ...

     India is now a World COVID hotspot. How fast situation reverses, just few months back it seems that India is on top of chart to manage COVID wave one but suddenly a Global problem when Covid wave 2 hit India. But not that we are unaware of it but we allowed this Covid Tsunami to engulf the entire country.      The political leadership which took decision so early in COVID one when death was so less but this time devoted full time to elections and more particularly to West Bengal elections. It looks that the only national agenda is to dethrone Mamata Banerjee. The full state powers were behind it. But what happens at last Didi -O -Didi  failed miserably and TMC back to power in West Bengal. It was a double whammy for BJP losing the West Bengal and also allowing the COVID wave to engulf the country. We failed at almost all steps. Starting from taking the mutation of COVID lightly and also not taking seriously the warning of covid 2 in India th...