2. Consumer Health Information Portal (CHIP)
a. METS
An interactive, bi-lingual Metabolic Syndrome Health Information Portal (English and Oriya) to educate individuals and family members for the prevention, monitoring and management of metabolic syndrome. Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of diseases including obesity, diabetes, hypertension and high cholesterol. This is the country’s first portal that is user centered evidence based and contextually relevant to meet the needs of the users.
b. DENGUE Health Information Portal
The interactive dengue health information portal is the country’s first bilingual internet-based information portal for the healthcare professionals. The design and development of the portal was supported and funded by the Department of Health and Family Welfare, State of Odisha. The portal has won the best paper award conferred at Indian Council of Medical Research – Centre of Medical Entomology at the “Brainstorming Conference on Dengue Scenario in India: Disease Burden, Surveillance and Control”, Madurai, Tamil Nadu on July 25-26 2013. This portal can be tailored to any other disease, population and language and can work on any technology platform.