Most Affordable Healthcare Provider
UHBLIC PC OICE #2
highlights * Nearly 500,000 or close to 25 percent of the 2.6 million outpatient visits handled annually
UHBLIC PC OICE #1
Primary Eye Care Centres in Rural areas Aravind Eye Care System One of the challenges in healthcare is that of ensuring “Universal Coverage”. It is usually the rural poor who don’t get access to health care. To address this, Aravind Eye Care established a series of vision centres (primary eye care centres) aimed at providing comprehensive primary eye care services to the rural and remote population and thus creating access to quality eye care. Each vision centre covers a population of 50,000 to 60,000. These centres are equipped with ophthalmic equipments and a computer with a webcam and high bandwidth (4 mbps) point to point wireless (802.11b - license free spectrum) or BSNL broadband connectivity. These centres are run by a well-trained ophthalmic technician who performs a comprehensive eye examination with slit lamp, does refraction and treats minor ailments while a counsellor, counsel the patients and manages the vision centre operations. Aravind pioneered the concept of screening eye camps to reach the unreached community through various approaches. The specific objective is to provide quality primary eye care services in local neighbourhoods of the rural population on a permanent basis and significantly reduce the necessity to go to a centre of higher care by offering the services of a specialist locally by integrating telemedicine technology. Website: www.aravind.org
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highlights * On-line realtime availability of the patient records acorss the hospital * Elimination of wastage of medicines and hospital consumables, with increased accountability * Automatic reporting for disease surveillance
e-Hospital Govt Fever Hospital Fever Hospital & NIC APSC, Hyderabad Patient care is provided on round the clock basis by the hospital, with the innovative use of information and communication technology. Patient services used to be affected as there used to be more documentation work. Nurses used to spend more time in writing manually in the registers rather than patient care. The project was started to improve patient care and reduce patient waiting time. It was initiated to eliminate time consuming documentation procedures and provide low cost and open source technologies. Medicines and their prescriptions are made online. Online indenting and supply of medicines, diet, etc., to patients and timely administration. It has made use of technology easier for hospital staff without any prior computer knowledge as they are now able to operate themselves. We provide innovative user interfaces requiring minimum entries. No typing work for nurses, lab-technicians, doctors is needed as, only with a few clicks they could perform their job. No physical paper movement and associated delays in getting supplies and information to serve the patients from wards to labs, pharmacy, etc, is required. Website: www.health.ap.nic.in/