New Delhi: To guarantee consistent standards of treatment across hospitals and promote the prudent use of necessary medications and tests, the Union Health Ministry has written to all states requesting that physicians apply 157 Standard Treatment Workflows in 28 specialties. These workflows were established by the ICMR.
Union Health Secretary Apurva Chandra emphasized the significance of Standard Treatment Workflows (STWs) implementation in the healthcare system in a letter to the National Medical Commission (NMC) for distribution in all medical colleges as well as to the principal secretary (health) of each state and union territory. He claimed that the rapidly expanding corpus of new scientific data and the rapid advancements in medicine require healthcare professionals to stay current on the vast body of knowledge and comprehensive treatment guidelines and reference manuals from various medical specialties and domains. This calls for the need for an updated, streamlined approach in the form of a one-page app that can continuously direct treating physicians while they manage the patient.
The National Health Authority (NHA), the World Health Organization’s India Country Office, and the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) have collaborated to establish Standard Treatments (STWs) for common and serious diseases that treating physicians at all levels of healthcare systems encounter.
