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New Delhi (The Hawk): Dr Mansukh Mandaviya Minister of Health and Family Welfare; Chemicals and Fertilizers, GoI Imagine a world without the internet today, where computer networks didn't talk to each other. In such a disconnected world, people in one country may continue to reinvent the wheel which has been in use for years in another part of the world. But without a standardised Internet Protocol (IP), our version of reality would have looked radically different-one with many local area networks but no common internet to plug into. This alternate version of reality is similar to the flux the digital health space is facing today-on the brink of disruptive technologies but awaiting direction, a standard framework and a decisive nudge from the international leadership to ensure that innovations that can benefit billions of people residing in Global South can be scaled up and sustained. The exciting world of digital health is brimming with small but powerful pilots and innovations across subsectors---smart wearables, internet of things, virtual care, remote monitoring, artificial intelligence, big data analytics, block-chain, tools enabling data exchange, storage, remote data capture-but is stuck in a fragmented ecosystem without a unified global vision. This at a time when the pandemic has already made us realise the enormous potential of digital tools in healthcare space. Designing a digital health push-the great experiment in India We in India have lived and experienced the transformative potential of digital tools in public health space in recent times. During Covid-19, platforms like CoWin and e-Sanjeevani proved to be absolute game-changers transforming the way vaccines, and healthcare services were delivered to over a billion peop ...