This paper gives an insight of how information and communications technology (ICT) in combination with big data
analytics can help to improve healthcare services in Madhya Pradesh, which is a state in India having approximately 75 million
populations. With ongoing projects like ‘Digital India’ which will allow computerization of hospitals and digitization of
healthcare data. Digital India coupled with ICT, can play an indispensable role in providing effective healthcare services
through e-health application like electronic health record, e-prescription, computerized physician order entry, telemedicine, mhealth along with the network like State wide area network (SWAN) and National health information network which will allow
sharing of healthcare records across the network.
