Data Analytics:India Needs an Agency for Health Data

India has no centralized body for disseminating and maintaining health data that itself is capable to analyse its health data. I propose the formation of a national health data agency (HDA) to provide an efficient and alternative system to counter the existing beaurocratic systems. HDA would necessarily utilize the underlying framework of performing three key tasks: collection, standardization, and analysis of health data across several domains (e.g. government, private, personal, etc.) and make it open to the public.