Context: In the wake of COVID-19 pandemic, the Centre has digitally launched a web-based solution for the healthcare supply chain portal ''Aarogyapath'', to provide real-time availability of critical healthcare supplies for manufacturers, suppliers and customers.
About Aarogyapath Portal

• AarogyaPath will serve manufacturers, suppliers, and customers.
• The aim is to tackle the national health emergency that has arisen out of the COVID-19 pandemic, where the critical items may be compromised due to a variety of reasons. 
• It aims to provide a path that leads one on a journey towards Aarogya (healthy life). It has been developed to address these challenges.
• It is expected to become the national healthcare information platform of choice in the years  to come, filling a critical gap in last-mile delivery of patient care within India through improved availability and affordability of healthcare supplies.
• It is an informational management and forecasting databases platform at a national level to capture demand and supply scenarios for key items that are required to address the national healthcare needs in the current pandemic scenerios.

Vision

• The information platform named AarogyaPath  with a vision of “providing a path which leads one on a journey towards Aarogya (healthy life)” was developed to address these challenges.

Developers of this Portal: The portal was developed in partnership with Sarvodaya Infotech and institutional users and manufacturers / authorized suppliers of healthcare essentials are encouraged to register and participate actively.
Features

• Single Point Availability: This integrated public platform that provides single-point availability of key healthcare goods .
• Supply Chain Management: These issues include dependence on
• Limited suppliers,
• Time-consuming processes to identify good quality products,
• Limited access to suppliers who can supply standardised products at reasonable prices within desired timelines,
• Lack of awareness about the latest product launches, etc.
• Reaching end customer: It also helps manufacturers and suppliers to reach a wide network of customers efficiently, overcoming gaps in connectivity between them and potential demand centers like nearby pathological laboratories, medical stores, hospitals, etc.

New opportunities: It will also create opportunities for business expansion due to an expanded slate of buyers and visibility of new requirements for products.
Judicious use of resorces: This would help to reduce wastage of resources due to inefficient forecasting and excess manufacturing, generate awareness about the demand for new technologies.