India Pharma Outlook Team | Monday, 02 November 2026
Private healthcare integration remains a challenge for Haryana as the state prepares to map its public healthcare network on a unified Geographic Information System (GIS) platform.
The initiative will bring government hospitals, primary health centers, sub-health centers and AYUSH facilities onto one digital interface, helping citizens locate services and officials identify infrastructure gaps.
However, the state's wider digital health ambitions face a separate hurdle: limited participation from private providers.
Only 11.92 percent of targeted private and public-private partnership facilities are registered under the Health Facility Registry, raising questions about how effectively public and private healthcare networks can connect.
Haryana is developing a unified digital platform to consolidate healthcare infrastructure information maintained by its Health, AYUSH and Medical Education and Research departments.
Additional Chief Secretary for Health and Family Welfare Dr Sumita Misra recently reviewed the progress of the exercise, during which GIS mapping data covering healthcare facilities across the state was presented.
The Haryana Space Applications Centre (HARSAC), the state's nodal agency for remote sensing and geospatial applications, will provide technical assistance in managing the database and facilitating information-sharing between government departments.
For citizens, the platform is intended to simplify access to information about government hospitals, primary healthcare centers and AYUSH institutions.
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According to National Health Authority data compiled as of September 1, 2026, only 2,635 of 22,102 targeted private and public-private partnership healthcare facilities had been registered under the Health Facility Registry, representing 11.92 percent coverage.
Only 17.38 percent of targeted private doctors, or 8,575 out of 49,313, had registered under the Healthcare Professionals Registry. Among private nurses, registration stood at approximately 1 percent, with 938 registered against a target of 103,523.
In contrast, Haryana had registered 4,016 of 4,099 targeted government facilities under the Health Facility Registry, representing 97.98 percent coverage and Government doctor registration had also reached 90.48 percent.
This disparity highlights why Private Healthcare Integration remains important to the state's digital health ambitions.
Without wider participation from private hospitals in Haryana, diagnostic centers and healthcare professionals, the digital health ecosystem could continue operating with substantial information gaps.
The Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission provides an existing framework for connecting healthcare providers through digital registries and consent-based health information exchange.
Its Health Facility Registry identifies registered healthcare institutions, while the Healthcare Professionals Registry maintains verified information about medical professionals.
Haryana's GIS initiative could complement this framework by providing a geographical view of healthcare infrastructure, while ABDM supports digital identification and information exchange.
For Private Healthcare Integration to improve, Haryana will need to address registration barriers, encourage private provider participation and establish reliable mechanisms for maintaining facility-level information.
The broader question for India's digital health infrastructure is whether states can move beyond mapping government institutions towards creating a more connected healthcare network.
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