India Healthcare Regulatory Compliance
Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDP) 2023 & NMC Guidelines
1. DPDP Act 2023 Compliance Architecture
The Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act 2023 establishes comprehensive obligations for processing personal health data in India. Eldovian Desk implements privacy-by-design principles:
Standardized patient consent checkpoints prior to digital health record indexing and EMR chart creation.
When AI ambient transcription is launched, audio is processed in volatile memory and never persisted to disk.
2. National Medical Commission (NMC) 3-Year Retention
Under NMC Professional Conduct Regulations 2023, registered medical practitioners are required to maintain patient medical records for a minimum period of three (3) years from the commencement of treatment.
Eldovian Desk reconciles the DPDP Act's "Right to Erasure" with statutory medical retention rules by implementing cryptographic record archiving with immutable timestamped audit ledgers.
3. Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) Readiness
Eldovian Desk is architected for ABDM interoperability across:
- ABHA ID & Number: Secure capture and AES-256 encrypted storage of 14-digit Ayushman Bharat Health Account numbers.
- Health Facility Registry (HFR): Clinic facility identification and registration compliance.
- Healthcare Professionals Registry (HPR): Verification of treating doctor registration numbers and digital sign-offs.