Best mHealth Project
IC UHBOLICE PC #2
highlights * 98.5 percent institutional deliveries registered since implementation of project * MMR reduced from 90 to 51 percent in 2 years
IC UHBOLICE PC #1
Project Jeevandainee Zilla Parishad Wardha The project was started in order to provide timely and effective antenatal care and post natal care to be delivered to both the mother and child. The idea was to use technology to increase the productivity of the health service providers. In order to improve the service delivery, the Chief Executive Officer, Zilla Parishad of Wardha, Gunjan Krishna devised SMS based ANC and PNC tracking system. Under the system the health information collection and updating happens real time by way of SMS. Based on the information, the software generates the maternity card/ immunisation card and due dates of health checkups. Expected date of delivery, immunisation dates are created and alerts for the ANC, PNC and immunisation services are sent before the due date to the health workers in order to ensure timely delivery of services. The goal of the project is to improve the health of the mother and child as reflected in the MMR, IMR, institutional delivery and percentage of low birth rate babies. The objective is to ensure 100 percent registration of ANC cases at a stipulated time, to ensure the timely payment of JSY benefits and to ensure timely and complete immunisation of child born between 0-6 years. Website: www.zpwardha.gov.in
highlights * An integrated mobile phone based public health information system, firstof-its-kind in India * ICT based health information flow from root level to higher level achieved
mCARE - Mobile phone based Public His C-DAC Thiruvananthapuram Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Thiruvananthapuram and Media Lab Asia (promoted by MCIT, Govt. of India) collaborated in developing an ICT (Information and Communication Technology) based Software solution “mCARE” for strengthening health care services at grass root level and synthesising relevant information for health care management. The mobile based application “mCARE” developed by C-DAC enables health workers to use handheld devices such as Smartphone for capturing data from field and thus to analyse public health data from grass root level. The application can be deployed on any smart phones which runs on Windows Mobile Operating System. The “mCARE’’ has two major components working in tandem- “health@ palm” – an mHealth application which runs on smart phones and empowers health workers for health data capture and retrieval and centrally hosted web based application for health related data analysis and report generation. Website: www.cdactvm.in
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Best mHealth Project
JURY Award
highlights * The decision support achieved very high specificity and sensitivity (more than 95 percent in various cases)
IC UHBOLICE PC #3
Mobile based medical decisionsupport technology Department of Community Medicine, Stanley Medical College A novel mobile phone based clinical decision-support technology for village health providers to improve antenatal care for mothers and child health. With this premise a team of doctors from Stanley Medical College (SMC) and a group of engineers from National Institute of Technology, Karnataka started working on a decision-support technology for health-workers. With the ever increasing proliferation of mobile phones, the project has a platform which could be used to take away all the memorising and analysis out of the protocols by use of Information and communication technology. The objectives of starting the program were to develop a decision support technology for village health workers (VHW), provide immediate management of illness through diagnosis, treatment and advice of referral to secondary/ tertiary care and use the generated data for reminder and alerts enabling effective patient follow-up, tracking andmonitoring of illness over time. Website: www.stanmed.net
highlights * A high response rate. The DED-TTC survey reached over 7000 people in the Lira district for health education by SMS * An uptake in HIV testing of 200 percent!
Text to Change Text to Change Text to Change (TTC) is a Dutch and Ugandan based organisation founded in 2007. It is dedicated to support and improve health education via mobile phones in Africa. TTC works on developing innovative mobile telephony based concepts in developing countries and is specialized in incentive based text message programs addressing health issues. TTC aims at creating awareness, collecting data and generating an uptake in health services by using mobile telephones. With a four year successful track record, Text to Change brings both passion and senior-level Tech and innovative SMS service delivery experience. It does so through a wide variety of approaches varying from workplace based SMS programs aimed at changing sexual behavior, to data collection in conflict areas, to campaigning for improved school quality and reduced teacher absenteeism. The objective of the study was to improve HIV/ AIDS awareness and to increase the number of people going for testing services in Lira in order to increase the awareness of one’s HIV status and to encourage people to seek early treatment and care in order to decrease further HIV transmission. Website: www.texttochange.com
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Best Online healthcare provider
IC UHBOLICE PC #2
highlights * Empanelled a record breaking 45000+ medical entities in less than a year
IC UHBOLICE PC #1
IndiaHeartBeat.com DreamWeavers InfoCom Pvt. Ltd. Choice and accessibility being the need of the hour in the health realm encouraged Dreamweavers Infocom to take the first step forward towards building the country’s first digitalmedical network. They always tried promoting IndiaHeartBeat.Com as a digital socio-economic initiative. Placed at the intersection of two ever-growing verticals namely Healthcare and IT, IndiaHeartBeat. Com is deemed to be the world’s first medical networking and resource portal architecture on Web 2.0. The platform primarily acts as a robust digital- bridge and ensures seamless connectivity between the patients and the diverse medical world which comprises doctors, hospitals, diagnostic centers, pharmacies and auxiliary medical services. Some of the areas of immediate interest are medical search, medical networking and patient information records. Some of the other features of the portal include international medical tourism, free consultation forums, health insurance application, service discounts, access to drug references / molecular pharmacology etc. The primary objective is to build the largest community of medical professionals and countrymen and improve the accessibility and enhance efficiency and efficacy in the domain. Website: www.indiaheartbeat.com
highlights * The Government is able to provide insurance coverage of up to `2 lakhs per year on a family floater basis for 1.98 crore families at a cost of only `400 per family per year
Rajiv Aarogyasri Health Insurance Scheme Aarogyasri Health Care Trust Government of Andhra Pradesh had initially formulated this scheme for implementation on a pilot basis in three most backward districts of the state viz., Anantapur, Mahaboobnagar and Srikakulam. “Aarogyasri Health Care Trust” was set up in February 2007 to act as “State level nodal agency” for the implementation of the Scheme. In the state, people living below poverty line require financial protection for the treatment of serious ailments. To improve access of BPL families to quality medical care for treatment of identified diseases involving hospitalisation, surgeries and therapies through identified network of health care providers through a hybrid model consisting of tailor-made policy (serviced by insurer) and self funded reimbursement mechanism (serviced by trust) to assist BPL families. However the scheme is designed in such a way that the benefit in the primary care is addressed through free screening and outpatient consultation both in the health camps and in the network hospitals as part of scheme implementation and areas of catastrophic health expenditure is met by the insurance scheme. Website: www.aarogyasri.org
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Best Online healthcare provider
IC UHBOLICE PC #1
highlights * Live (realtime) statistics on the total number of patients at JPNATC available on the website * It is for the first time in the world that such a project has been conceptualised and implemented
IC UHBOLICE PC #3
Integrated Online Portal for AIIMS Trauma Centre JPN Apex Trauma centre, AIIMS The project was conceptualised to set a benchmark for accountability and transparency in public funded healthcare in India. As a small initial step, statistics on the number of patients coming to a hospital, as well as number of patients being admitted and discharged be available online publicly in a real time manner or as close to real-time as possible were required. No other healthcare facility anywhere has allowed itself open to scrutiny in such a global manner where real-time statistics on patient flow as well performance audits of each department are available for all to analyse, compare and criticise. The objective was to internally audit the clinical performance of each department and also has this audit available online publicly so that it could be compared with other hospitals in India and abroad. The centre wanted to have live statistics on the number of patients coming to a hospital, as well as number of patients being admitted/discharged be available online publicly. This would make the overall working of a hospital transparent to the public. Website: www.jpnatc.org
Care Delivery through Innovative Technology
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
JURY Award
e-Hospital Govt Fever Hospital Fever Hospital and 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 are now able to operate themselves. It provides innovative user interfaces requiring minimum entries. No typing work for nurses, labtechnicians, 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
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Care Delivery through Innovative Technology
IC UHBOLICE PC #3
highlights * ANC registered in first trimester increased from 56 to 64 percent * Increase in institutional deliveries from 76 to 85 percent * Improved reporting of maternal deaths from 589 to 702 over previous year * Improved reporting of infant deaths from 4732 to 7263 over previous year
IC UHBOLICE PC #2
e-Mamta: Name based Mother and Child tracking application State Rural Health Mission, Commissionerate of Health e-Mamta mother and child tracking web based application is uniquely designed management tool being executed in Govt. health facilities across Gujarat to accommodate for gaps in ensuring comprehensive maternal and child health services in rural as well urban areas. e-Mamta is accessed through user id and password for in-department employees. It is credible tracking system that would enable health workers to reach above mentioned goals in accelerated fashion, as the issues of migration, low service demand, duplication of reporting afflicted MCH service delivery are removed. The system aims at life cycle approach, registering every individual pregnant mother, individual children in the age group 0-6 and adolescents (10-19 yrs) along with their full service uptake details to ensure complete service delivery of ante natal care(ANC), child birth, post natal care(PNC), Immunization, nutrition and adolescent services and to track the left outs of these services. Website: www.e-mamta.guj.nic.in
highlights * Reduction
in the IMR from 63/1000 live births to 59/1000 live births * Antenatal coverage increased from 27.5 to 55.2 percent * Immunization coverage increased from 48.8 to 53.8 percent * Institutional Deliveries increased from 45 to 70 percent
Pregnancy, Child Tracking and Health Services Management System Department of Medical Health and Family Welfare, Rajasthan Pregnancy, Child Tracking and Health Services Management System is an online software which was launched on 15th Sept. 2009. It is a unique e-Governance project ever implemented in the health sector. Monitoring of individual pregnant woman for health care as well as every child was not possible earlier through manual systems. The system is extremely useful in minimising maternal mortality, infant mortality through providing real-time information and data to the service providers at the different levels of care and thereby ensuring the utilisation of the reproductive health services by the community. Feedback is given to the service providers at the village block and district level through this software system. The objective of the PCTS is to improve the health of the pregnant women and Infant and thereby reducing the maternal and infant mortality and also achieving population stabilisation. Website:www.rajmedical.raj.nic.in
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ICT Enabled Diagnostic Service Provider
IC UHBOLICE PC #2
highlights * Commercial use in medical universities and medical college * Increased deployment and individual users
IC UHBOLICE PC #1
NOVEL DISEASE DETECTION APPARATUS FOR HUMAN SAFETY DCCMS Sarr clinic soft Total knowledge acquisitions, deployment and interactivity is humanly impossible to achieve but with ICT support - overcoming human limitations of memory capacity / retentivity has become possible. An internet application for global use is provided. World diseases and global concerns are covered about gaps and clinical killer errors causing limitless loss of lives and human resources transforming healthcare through ICT. It is the use of comprehensive knowledge deployment with helpful bridging know-do gaps. Comprehensive medical knowledge management and deployment tools with the use of interactive use of medical knowledge. Digital knowledge is used for problem solving in a better / cheaper natural / easier / efficient / faster way. eHealth communicability globally through internet applications is leveraging healthcare in countries. It is achieving accuracy in diagnosing / averting delays and minimising all round costs of treatments. Intelligent agent software is used for diagnosing / regular self appraisals. The healthcare knowledge deployment / standards are uniform in line with perceptional diagnosing as flawful – needs spot substantiations, bed side transportability of vital knowledge – through internet and hand held devices.
highlights * Expansion
into African continent with currently reporting for centres in Tanzania and Mozambique * Joining learning programme offers unique advantage to radiology residents to learn
Teleradiology ProvidersImaging Remotely Prime Telerad Providers (P) Ltd Teleradiology Providers (a unit of Prime Tele Rad Providers Pvt Ltd) is a web based consultancy service which aims at providing an accurate radiological diagnosis instantly and at very economical costs. In addition to online radiology reads, it also offers its own unique radiology learning programme for the radiologists and advanced 3D reconstruction services. Teleradiology Providers (a Unit of Prime Tele Rad Providers Pvt Ltd.) is a group of established senior consultant radiologists with extensive experience in radiology, all modalities including CT, MRI, Ultrasound and Doppler, with subspecialty exposure in Neuroradiology, Musculoskeletal radiology, Cardiac and Breast imaging. Due to indigenous and focused effort on Teleradiology, Teleradiology Providers is able to provide low cost innovative online radiology reporting solutions. Using latest available technology, we can make system as per your requirements and connect any centre to our web based server architecture and provide quick turnaround time. Website: www.teleradproviders.com
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ICT Enabled Diagnostic Service Provider
JURY Award
highlights * Reduction in turn around time by 25 percent * Improved accuracy of data entry by 5 percent approx
IC UHBOLICE PC #3
Project Health Connect Cimcon Software (India) Pvt Ltd In past times test requisition form(TRF) were travelling from the point of origin to the other whereas now the point of origin would scan and upload the TRFs and the operators at destination would enter the data. This will reduce TAT and in advance prepare the departments about upcoming samples. The lab documents related to accreditation e.g. ISO, NABL, CAP would be stored and maintained in a common repository. There would be a secured electronic storage available now for storing all our lab agreements and contracts for all future reference. Using eInfotree workflow based applications for various departments e.g. for HR, the entire process from recruitments to appraisal can be maintained. Also other applications related to employee leaves; ODs can be maintained electronically. Expenses like travel, communication; etc can be tracked and monitored using DMS. The project was started to reduce the turnaround time to deliver the test report to the patient. To achieve more accuracy, quality and faster service was the primary objective. Website: www.cimconsolutions.com
highlights in quantity of calls attended from 900 to 1200 * 33 percent increment in handling customer feedback * Increase
IT Integration of Customer Service Management Metropolis Healthcare Ltd Pioneers in the field of hospital lab management, they have been managing the laboratories of leading multi-specialty hospitals in India and abroad. Professional laboratory management by their highly qualified team of pathologists and medical technologists ensures increased profits, higher returns and better efficiency. The primary objective to start the system was to reduce unproductive customer calls and services. The center provides facilities such as call recording, monitoring calls quality, tracking missed calls, capturing requests for call backs, call segregation based on objective, call type and order bookings, number of call effectiveness by team leaders. HLM enables hospitals to offer patients the best diagnostic care available without diverting their focus from core healthcare services. By sparing them the effort to manage yet another department, it turns out to be a cost-effective solution as well. The referral lab works like their full-fledged department and carries out a wide range of clinical lab tests. It also features a proper complaint management system. It is altogether open source technology with minimum cost of operation. Website: www.metropolisindia.com
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Best PPP initiative
IC UHBOLICE PC #2
highlights * The Government is able to provide insurance coverage of up to `2 lakhs per year on a family floater basis for 1.98 crore families at a cost of only `400 per family per year
IC UHBOLICE PC #1
Rajiv Aarogyasri Health Insurance Scheme Aarogyasri Health Care Trust Government of Andhra Pradesh has accordingly formulated this scheme for implementation on a pilot basis in three most backward districts of the state. In the state, people living below poverty line require financial protection for the treatment of serious ailments. To improve access of BPL families to quality medical care for treatment of identified diseases involving hospitalization, surgeries and therapies through identified network of health care providers through a hybrid model consisting of tailor-made policy (serviced by Insurer) and self funded reimbursement mechanism (serviced by Trust) to assist BPL families for their catastrophic health needs without compromising the importance of existing Health Care Delivery system of the Government. However the scheme is designed in such a way that the benefit in the primary care is addressed through free screening and outpatient consultation both in the health camps and in the network hospitals as part of scheme implementation and areas of catastrophic health expenditure is met by the insurance scheme. Website: www.aarogyasri.org
highlights * 14238
patients have been consulted till now * Completely cured a patient with breathing difficulty from the lower economic strata
JURY Award
Tele Homeopathy Project Govt of Tripura and National Institute of Homeopathy, Kolkata The World Health Organisation (WHO) has recognised Homeopathy as an accepted and the second largest system of medicine in the world. Homeopathy provides a new avenue of opportunity for integrating the benefits of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for delivering the Homeopathic treatment across boundaries, distances and time in an effective and accountable manner. The project has screened about 15,000 patients and nearly 60 percent of them are women and children. With this vision an initiative was undertaken by IL&FS with National Institute of Homeopathy Kolkata in the state of Tripura to overcome all geographical, economic, social barriers faced by the rural citizens and help them in obtaining quality preventive and curative services from Tele- Homeopathy Centers located at their doorsteps. The objective is to provide quality health care in the villages using Homoeopathic stream of medicine and to enable primary and preventive health care in the region. Website: www.drjshah.com/ HomeopathyIntroduction.aspx
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Best PPP initiative
IC UHBOLICE PC #1
highlights * More than 2 lakh people from the 27 districts of Assam have utilized the services * Free lab diagnosis and medication for 30 percent of the population with multiple vulnerabilities
IC UHBOLICE PC #3
HMRISANJEEVANI VILLAGE HEALTH OUTREACH PROGRAM (VHOP) Health Management and Research Institute The HMRI ‘Sanjeevani’ - Village Health Outreach Program (VHOP) has been launched in Assam partnering with the Department of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Assam as a PPP model. The Mobile Health Units (MHUs) operate in collaboration with the local health functionaries like ASHA, Anganwadi Worker, sub center ANM and the village health and sanitation committee. The sole objective of the program is to create a technology-enabled health service that provides comprehensive health services for the identification, treatment and monitoring of select communicable and non-communicable diseases and minor illnesses, thus managing the morbidity and mortality. Each MHU is equipped with a laptop loaded with the VHOP application software, biometric scanner, webcam, mobile phone, basic diagnostic equipment, consumable to spot test random blood sugar, etc. and medicines. Website: www.hmri.in/sanjeevani.aspx
highlights * Reduced waiting time of patients at the counters for registration, cash payment, laboratory and radiology investigations, consultation etc
ICT enabled Hospital
e-Hospital@NIC Dr B.R Ambedkar Memorial Teaching hospital & Tripura Medical College e-Hospital@NIC, a Hospital Management System is a workflow based ICT solution for hospitals specifically meant for the hospitals in government sector. This is generic software which covers major functional areas like patient care, laboratory services, work flow based document/information exchange, human resource and medical records management of a hospital. It is a patient-centric system rather than a series of add-ons to a financial system. One of the top most areas of concern to the common man is health care service. Mainly down trodden masses are being served by government hospitals in rural and urban areas. e-Hospital is designed to help small size to large size government hospital to deploy ICT solution at affordable cost. Hospital-wide management and seamless integration of information across various departments of the hospital is set up along with comprehensive information about patients. This generic software for a government hospital covers all major functional areas of medical college at remotest corner of India. Unicode based Indian multilingual support comprehensive reporting on various customizable parameters with a comprehensive role based access control and security enables data sharing across various departments. Website: www.tmc.nic.in
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ICT enabled Hospital
JURY Award
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
IC UHBOLICE PC #2
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 are able operate themselves. We provide innovative user interfaces requiring minimum entries. No typing work for nurses, labtechnicians, doctors, 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
highlights * Average handling increased to nearly 900 patients per 4 hours OPD session in the front office, OPD clinics
IC UHBOLICE PC #3
MCD Hospitals Wipro Ltd Wipro Healthcare IT provided integrated Hospital Information System to MCD Hospitals implementing 28 modules which cater to outpatient and inpatient functionality, inventory & MIS within every hospital. This includes patient registration with demographic details, outpatient visitors, doctor appointment scheduling, admission, discharge, transfer, order entry, laboratory/radiology/cardiology result reporting, operation theatre management, pharmacy etc. Wipro has helped MCD to consolidate data from all their 6 sites and setup their data center. Wipro implemented web portal to access patient’s clinical data from any with the help of internet. Wipro implemented end to end automation of the entire life cycle management of the healthcare solution. commencing from registration, electronic patient folder have been automated. The list of process automated are as follows- Registration, ADT, OP Billing, IP billing, ward, ICU, emergency, operation theatre, physiotherapy, phlebotomy, laboratory, cardiology, radiology, diet and nutrition, house keeping, laundry, biomedical equipment management, CSSD, maintenance, administration, security and identify management, pharmacy, medical records, discharge summary, MIS, lab equipment Interface, web enabling features. The primary objective was to provide healthcare facilities to patients. Website: www.wipro.com/industries/ healthcare august / 2011 www.ehealthonline.org
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