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In this debut episode of Building Bharat Dialogues, we engage with Ishmeet Singh, CEO of Digital Bharat Collaborative, to explore how data, digital tools, and decentralized governance are transforming India’s public health systems — one village at a time.

From ASHA workers equipped with smartphones to state-wide health record integration under ABDM, this conversation unpacks how real-time data, digital public goods, and district-level models are building the foundation for Viksit Bharat.

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Episode Breakdown

1.
Opening: Why Digital Bharat Collaborative?

Pallav introduces the podcast’s goal — to explore how tech intersects with Sewa Bhaav on the ground — and welcomes Ishmeet.

2.
India's Ground Realities in Health

Challenges of digital infrastructure, workforce capacity, and service delivery in underserved states.

3.
Gaps in Government Programs: From Data to Delivery

Why health workers struggle, how data lags affect governance, and where Digital Bharat Collaborative steps in.

4.
The Ecosystem Approach: Public + Private + Policy

How collaboration with tech companies, field actors, and government stakeholders, bridges capacity gaps.

5.
Making Healthcare Personal: The ASHA’s Smartphone & Real-Time Care

Step-by-step walkthrough of how frontline tools and information systems (like ANMOL and AMRIT apps) help identify high-risk pregnancies and ensure continuum of care.

6.
Programs in Action: Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh

Live examples of comprehensive flagship programs like Xushrukha, Nirmaya, LIDH, Sanjeevani, and different helplines ensuring entire health system strengthening.

7.
Scaling Up & Making It Stick

How learnings are systematized and institutionalized into state governance through policy design and DPGs (Digital Public Goods).

8.
ABDM as the Backbone of Digital Health

What it takes to implement ABDM successfully, and how a mother in Bihar can save her husband’s life through a single app.

9.
Reflection: One Life at a Time

What this transformation means for the future of Bharat — and why every digital link is a human lifeline.

Key Themes

Digital Transformation in Public Health
Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM)
Last-Mile Healthcare Access
Real-Time Governance & Data
Public-Private Collaboration
Women and Youth as Catalysts
District Saturation Models
Digital Public Goods (DPGs)

Notable Quotes

Digitization to digitalization to digital transformation — to saving lives.

Pallav Patankar

I think that every life we are able to save actually helps us feel that yes, we made a difference to the system.

Ishmeet Singh

Good quality clinical care also depends on if the citizen actually trusts the system.

Ishmeet Singh

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About the Podcast

Building Bharat Dialogues by Piramal Foundation presents conversations that merge digital innovation with human dignity. Driven by lived experiences and policy vision, each episode brings forward voices shaping Bharat from the grassroots level.