Media News - Sri Sathya Hospital to go paperless

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Business Standard, India

August 27, 2003

 

Sri Sathya Hospital to go paperless

 

Our Bureau in Bangalore

Published : August 27, 2003

 

Sri Sathya Sai hospital, the Bangalore-based renowned healthcare

centre, is all set to become a "paperless and filmless" facility.

 

Medicom Solutions, another city-based medical software company has

deployed the Hospital Information System (HIS) which will have a

comprehensive modular and integrated health information system

catering to the various functions of healthcare institutions.

 

"We have a full-fledged laboratory information system, which

automatically transmits lab results from the analysers and a

radiology information system, which allows images to be available in

real time on the doctor's desk," Safaya, director, said while

announcing details about the entire health information system.

 

The HIS helps in the maintenance of accurate data along with the

photograph of the patient through a lifetime to facilitate effective

diagnosis and treatment.

 

A patient's clinical information is maintained in an electronic

medical record, which can be accessed anytime by the attending

healthcare specialists.

 

Data will include nursing management, clinical management and

standardised clinical treatment protocols. The hospital has 333

beds, including 120 in the intensive care unit. It has eight

operation theatres for cardiology and four for neurology. There are

68 specialist doctors and over 350 nursing personnel.

 

Medicom Solutions has implemented HIS in a record 93 days. The

solution will soon be extended to Sai Baba Hospital also at

Puttaparthi, which is 250 km away from Bangalore, where an

enterprise ASP model will be used enabling a single "central

database" of patient records for both hospitals. It would be

maintained in Bangalore. The two hospitals would be connected

through a satellite link, having a broad-band leased line as a back-

up-time.

 

The hospital also plans to introduce for the first time in India,

real-time, online tele-health based on the Electronic Medical Record

of a patient.

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