National workshop on IT solutions in AYUSH to begin at Kumarakom on Thursday

Two-day workshop to set framework for centralized digital platform for AYUSH

Kottayam / September 17, 2025

Kottayam, Sep 17: India’s renewed efforts to mainstream AYUSH treatment systems and give them a global push will receive an added momentum with Kerala hosting a two-day national workshop on IT solutions in AYUSH at Kumarakom near here from Thursday.

The workshop  will evolve a framework for a centralised digital platform for knowledge-sharing and citizen-centric  delivery  of services in the sector. It is aimed at integrating the whole range of holistic healthcare services on an inter-operable digital platform.

Organised by the National AYUSH Mission, Kerala, in association with Department of AYUSH, Kerala Government, under the aegis of  Ministry of AYUSH, the event will facilitate structured discussions and peer learning towards developing a comprehensive digital framework for AYUSH.

Kerala Minister for Health and Woman & Child Development Smt Veena George will inaugurate the workshop At the KTDC Waterscapes at 10 a.m on Thursday.

Vaidya Rajesh Kotecha, Secretary to the Union Ministry of AYUSH, will deliver the key-note address to the opening session, to be chaired by Kerala’s Additional Chief Secretary (Health) Shri Rajan Khobragade. Smt Kavita Jain, Joint Secretary, Ministry of AYUSH, will deliver a special address.

The event comes in the tenth year of the formation of the Ministry of AYUSH for the mainstreaming and global outreach of India’s time-tested Ayurveda along with other alternative systems of healthcare within the ambit of AYUSH.  

Delegates from 28 states and eight union territories attending the workshop will chart the roadmap for a national-level AYUSH digital health.

Senior officials of the Ministry of AYUSH will lead workshops with participation from Ministers and administrators from states and UTs, Mission Directors and key officers of State AYUSH departments, technical personnel from AYUSH’s IT divisions at the Central and State/UT levels and experts from digital health and e-governance platforms.

The deliberations will focus on sharing best practices and showcasing IT innovations from states and UTs. Besides providing orientation on Central Government’s IT solutions by the AYUSH Grid team, the participants will examine domains such as programme management, patient care, monitoring and reporting systems, human resource and data management, and financial tracking mechanisms.

The workshop is expected to yield outcomes that include the establishment of a consolidated national knowledge-sharing platform on IT-enabled AYUSH services.

The recommendations will be made for aligning AYUSH digital systems with the National Digital Health ecosystem and other pan-India e-health initiatives.

The workshop will be followed by two days of field visit (on September 20, 21) to Kerala’s AYUSH facilities in Kottayam, Alappuzha and Thrissur districts. Participants will observe diverse models of AYUSH service delivery, besides the Sports Ayurveda Project and initiatives such as Arogyanouka, Palliative Care, Drishti and Ayurkarma.

The event comes in the wake of a recent NITI Aayog meeting of Chief Secretaries to hold a series of theme-specific workshops with the aim of imparting scale and speed to the delivery of AYUSH services. A key topic identified at the September 3-4 deliberations in Delhi was “National AYUSH Mission and States’ Capacity Building”.

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