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The Slum Community in Ahmedabad 1. Current healthcare system parameters and

influencing economic factors.
◦ Existing local unique identification
of people and preventive medicine,
chronic diseases, infectious diseases,
trauma, wellness, maternity, etc.
◦ Perceived problems of identity and
the existing healthcare network.
◦ Factors such as power, utilities, mo-
bility, financial etc, that may impact
the need of individual identity.
◦ Funding models for potential
solutions.
◦ Sustainable and scalable solution
model (revenue and cost).
2. Current patient identification and record
systems in place.
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The slum community in Ahmedabad is considered
the largest in India, and the third largest in Asia,
housing around 140,000 individuals including
around 8,000 children. The slum community
center is operated by the Manav Sadhna 2 located
in the Gandhi Ashram, and looks after around
8,000 children from the community.

Palanpur Villages in Banaskantha
District

The solution team studied two representative
rural villages surrounding the town of Palanpur,
namely Malana and Utanpura. The former has a
population of around 5000 and the latter around
450 (66 children, 35 families). Fundamental need of electronic in-

dividual identification and how are
people identified at the moment. 5.2. Objectives

◦ Linking territory and regional health

networks to medical facilities. The field test aimed to establish proof-of-concept

for the implementation of a real-time electronic
individual identification and tracking system in
low-resource settings in rural India. The field in-
vestigations focused on assessing available medi-
cal specialty and ambulatory care, and concluding
how technologies proposed by the team may be
utilized. Specifically, the solution team redressed
five objectives, as detailed below.

◦ India's E-identity program and impli-

cations to rural healthcare/communi-
ty-based healthcare.

◦ Complementary solutions to or syn-

ergy of India's E-identity program.

◦ Local priorities and impacts by an

electronic individual identification
system.

Figure 1. Images from the slums in Ahmedabad