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technical support at central, state and district
levels on various aspects of S3 implementation.
NIC officers from States and Districts are also
actively involved in extending the support.

Dashboard and Data Analytics
NIC also assisted in designing appropriate
dashboards and analytics for central, state and
district officers.

Aarogya Setu
Aarogya Setu is a COVID-19 tracking mobile
application developed by NIC with voluntary
support from industry. The purpose of this app is
to spread awareness on COVID-19 and to connect
essential COVID-19 related health services to the Screenshot of the S3 Dashboard - Positive Cases Updation Interface
people of India. The app facilitates Bluetooth
based contact tracing of suspected contacts of
COVID Positive patients. The app provides an
option of self-assessment by the users and re-
ports their symptoms.
Aarogya Setu integrates through Exchange
Module of Central Data Hub to share data with
Lab Module and S3 System. An analytical dash-
board has been implemented by Aarogya Setu
as part of the solution for state and district of-
ficers

Centralized Covid Data Hub
(CDH)
Data is powerful only if it is gathered in
real-time from its sources and securely shared
with all the stakeholders to leverage its full po-
tential. Looking at the importance and sensitiv- COVID-19; DataHub Summary Dashboard
ity of data, it was decided by the Empowered
Group on Technology and Data Management take corrective measures as per requirement. exchange framework are playing a vital role in
that the important COVID related Data from The status of data exchange through APIs planning, monitoring and management of dif-
various source systems would be consolidated among various stakeholders is also monitored ferent aspects of the pandemic. Sharing of data
and minimal data would be shared with vari- from the source in near real-time has helped
ous agencies from Government and private with through the Dashboard. in establishing integrated view and reliability in
approval of Empowered Group. the overall system. The processes put in place
Accordingly, NIC created a Central Data Hub Way Forward have also helped in improving the quality and
at NIC Data Centre, which facilitates the inte- NIC Technical support & services in manage- security of data exchange across systems for
gration of data from various source systems in- ment and integration of diverse systems along better planning and decision-making. NIC will
cluding of ICMR and S3. The data is then shared with the establishment of state-of-the-art data keep on striving to further enhance and im-
with authorized agencies and systems in a re-
stricted and secured manner for contact tracing
and surveillance. The Centralized Data Hub en-
ables seamless connectivity exchange of data
between various systems and services. To know more,
please contact:
Further, NIC has also designed and devel-
oped analytical dashboards for use by various Sunil Kumar
government agencies for decision-making. An Deputy Director General
National Informatics Centre
exclusive Data Quality and API Exchange dash- Pawan Joshi Sunil Kumar G. Mayil Muthu Kumaran CGO Complex, Lodhi Road,
board has been developed to monitor the qual- Dy. Director General Dy. Director General Dy. Director General New Delhi- 110 003
Email: sunil.bhushan@nic.in
ity of data received from various sources and pawan.joshi@nic.in sunil.bhushan@nic.in muthu@nic.in Phone: 011-24305933

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