Online portal launched for Empanelment of Private Hospitals | 08 Apr 2023

Why in News?

According to the information provided by the Haryana Information, Public Relations and Language Department on 5 April 2023, Haryana Health and Family Welfare Minister Anil Vij has launched an online portal and a software as part of his commitment to provide transparent and quick health services to the people in the state.

Key Points

• Now on this portal, the process of empanelment of private hospitals will be online as soon as possible and they will be issued an online empanelment certificate.
• Private hospitals will be submitted on this portal with the complete set of required valid documents. Login ID is created at 4 levels namely PM Branch (ASMO/DD), DGHS, ACS (Health) & Health Minister for processing and subsequently approve/reject the applications.
• The state government is facilitating this through empanelment of private hospitals apart from government health institutions, especially for providing tertiary and super-specialty health facilities to its employees, pensioners and their dependents. To ensure highest quality standards, only JCI/NABH accredited hospitals have been empaneled since 2017 and no empanelment fee is charged.
• Presently, applications for empanelment are submitted in hard copy, by hand or by post to the DGHS office. Applications are taken on file and processed at various levels from the Minister of Health to the Clerk until final approval.
• Similarly, the online empanelment portal will enable efficient and quick processing of such applications, which also has the facility of real time tracking of applications. Deficiencies in the application, if any, will be highlighted on the portal for correction by the applicant hospitals without the need to visit any office.
• In this, a dashboard has also been prepared for the officers to monitor the functionality/pending of the applications. The dashboard for the users (State Government employees/pensioners) along with complete details about each empaneled hospital, empanelment period, scope of services, details of beds, details of doctors etc. is also displayed.
• Moreover, this online empanelment portal is another example of the Haryana Government's commitment towards efficient, transparent and speedy service delivery under which private hospitals will get an online certificate of empanelment.
• It is to be noted that at present, there are 423 (211 multi-specialty and 208 single specialty) private hospitals under the empanelment of the state government.