A keynote address was delivered by Dr. Neeta Verma, DG, NIC at the Glocal India Healthcare Virtual Conclave held on 27th August 2020 organized by APAC Digital News Network. In her address, Dr. Verma recalled the MEDLARS services provided by NIC in the 1980s that facilitated access to scientific journals, information, and much more to the doctors and healthcare researchers at that time. Talking about several initiatives taken by NIC in the healthcare sector, she explained about the eHospital, a cloud-based hospital management system used by over 400 hospitals across India. During the Covid-19 many hospitals have initiated teleconsultation using the eHospital platform. With more than 15 crore users, Aarogya Setu has become the largest public contact tracing App across the world. Dr. Verma elaborated on the App’s upcoming features like sharing of status using QR code, which can enable small businesses and offices to keep track of the health status of their employees. It also has an IVRS component to support non-smartphone users. NIC’s RT-PCR App facilitates collecting the samples as per the guidelines of ICMR. In less than a minute, the data is uploaded to ICMR Lab and ICMR portal. Over 2 crore samples have been collected as of date using this app