AIIMS Director Randeep Guleria inaugurated an online platform of MINErVA on Monday (19 November,2018)to provide data on the cause of deaths in the country which helps the government plan and monitor the effectiveness of its health programmes. The premier institute has developed the platform for the Registrar General of India Office, the Ministry of Home Affairs. The RGI office had signed an MoU with the AIIMS last year to provide technical support for its Sample Registration System-based verbal autopsy. The SRS (Sample Registration System) is the single most important source of data on annual demographic indicators including causes of death in any country.
“The platform is fully developed by the AIIMS and enables physicians to review the verbal autopsy form and enter the cause of death in the form of a standard international code sitting at their office,” the official said.It also has an online training platform for doctors to learn about the system and on how to arrive at and code the cause of death.
“About 400 doctors have already registered with the system which will start coding of the verbal autopsy forms from next week,” the official said. The AIIMS will provide additional support in the form of training to conduct verbal autopsy, training physicians to code the cause of death and development of an IT platform for training and coding. In future, hand-held computers are planned to be used for the collection of data.
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