HP Enterprise Services India announced that the Department of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Kerala, has selected HP to create an e-Health IT platform to enable the delivery of a digital healthcare solution and services for Health Care facilities across Kerala. The digital healthcare solution will help healthcare practitioners to improve patient care and focus resources where they will drive the best health outcomes.
The Department of Health and Family Welfare (DHFW) is responsible for delivering healthcare across a vast geographic area to more than 33 million citizens through more than 1,250 healthcare delivery facilities including over 1,000 public and community healthcare centres, and almost 200 hospitals and medical colleges. Delivering efficient and effective patient care was previously hampered by largely manual processes that generated many thousands of patient records which were often dispersed across many locations.
The DHFW chose HP to design and build a digital healthcare delivery roadmap for the 1,250+ facilities around the region. The roadmap outlines the steps to digitize the entire State healthcare delivery process in stages or phases starting from basic capturing of demographic details of every patient to complete Electronic Medical Record (EMR) creation.
The e-Health platform is the IT platform created across all care delivery systems to capture all activities and processes at the point of patient care. This includes the core technology for the Healthcare Management Information System, mobile applications, analytics and reporting. The HP platform will provide the following:
•Centralized Monitoring and Management - through a universal database, dynamically updated to enable the Government to plan for and monitor the provision of public health care services.
•E-Clinical services - to allow online prescription, online diagnostics and imaging services for speedy disposal of patient care needs resulting in creation of real time Electronic Medical Records (EMR) and a repository.
“Delivering the best patient outcomes relies on a coordinated and efficient approach across the many healthcare delivery facilities and medical staff,” said Marshal Correia, vice president & general manager, Enterprise Services, HP India. “This new e-health IT platform will enable transparent and efficient monitoring of all public health programs, medical inventory, Electronic Medical Records and Hospital Management Information Systems.”
•Testing for Systems, User Acceptance Testing and User training to over 3500 users – ensuring a consistent approach for data integrity and quality controls
•Applications Management Services including on-site and application support – will ensure a speedy resolution and on-going delivery of patient services.
The provision of effective healthcare has become increasingly complex and costly for governments and providers. With HP’s depth of expertise and experience in building e-healthcare solutions medical staff can focus their attention on delivering better patient services and improved healthcare for citizens.
